Review: 5 Stars for Can't Go Back (Devlin & Falco #3) By Debra Webb

Can't Go Back
Devlin & Falco #3

The past and the present collide in the final installment of USA Today bestselling author Debra Webb’s Devlin & Falco series, threatening everything these two detectives care about.

Birmingham detectives Kerri Devlin and Luke Falco arrive at the scene of a double homicide to discover that nothing makes sense. A woman and her child are dead, and though the husband says he killed them, the evidence says otherwise. Why would a man confess to unspeakable murders he didn’t commit?

What starts as an open-and-shut case explodes into a web of new leads. Devlin and Falco get to work tracking down every single one—including a disturbing connection between the murders and Falco’s dark past.

Falco knows the incident from eight years ago will jeopardize the partnership he’s built with Devlin, both on and off the job. If he could go back, he would—but what happened happened, and there’s a murderer on the loose. Devlin and Falco must slog through the pain to get to the truth; and so far the only truth they know is that everyone is lying.

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What I thought about Can't Go Back

Kerri Devlin and Luke Falco are back again with a mystery that will digs deep into Luke's undercover days. Luke's past isn't something he wants to talk about and the reader finds out why in Can't Go Back.

Like the previous books in the series, the real attraction for me is the attraction between the two detectives.  It's attraction based on mutual respect and it is totally sexy in a very understated way.  I enjoy reading romance as well as suspense and crime drama, so their relationship adds something for this reader. 

Can't Go Back is a terrific ending to this series.  The criminal investigation is not trivial or straight-forward and I liked that about it.  And Luke Falco is terrific as Kerri's partner.  His respect and affection for Kerri is a very solid foundation for this series.

 

Gone Too Far
Devlin & Falco #2

 

This second entry in USA Today bestselling author Debra Webb’s Devlin & Falco series proves that sometimes the past is best left forgotten.

As veteran detectives of the Birmingham Police Department, Kerri Devlin and Luke Falco have seen it all. So when the city’s new hotshot deputy district attorney turns up dead as part of a double homicide, the partners immediately get to work.

But this is no ordinary case. Devlin and Falco quickly link the murdered DDA to one of their own: former BPD detective Sadie Cross. But Sadie’s fractured memory is yet another puzzle to decipher, as she only recalls bits and pieces of her violent past…a past that may hold clues to the motive behind the murders.

As the group slowly begins to unearth the truth, they soon discover that the more secrets are revealed, the more fatal the consequences. 

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What I thought about Gone Too Far

In this second installment, Luke Falco and Kerri Devlin are assigned to a case with political potential while Kerri's daughter is involved in a very sticky case at her private school.

Kerri is definitely distracted with her daughter's situation, which truthfully was so much more interesting than the double murder case.  I don't want to spill too many details here, but I did like that part of the book and how it gets resolved.

This story really revolves around another interesting character in this series, Sadie Cross. A friend to Luke, Sadie is smart and savvy and damaged from her years undercover.  In Gone Too Far, Sadie recovers some lost memories that could have her in danger too.

I really like this series, mostly because I like Kerri and Luke.  Together or apart, the pages move along, especially when they are working together.  I really enjoy the understated relationship between them and between Luke and Kerri's daughter Tori.

Another interesting mystery in this crime drama series.

 
Trust No One
Devlin & Falco #1

A double homicide and a missing woman lead a detective to unearth disturbing secrets in this gripping thriller from USA Today bestselling author Debra Webb.

It’s the worst possible time for Detective Kerri Devlin to be involved in an all-consuming double-homicide case. She’s locked in a bitter struggle with her ex-husband and teenage daughter, and her reckless new partner is anything but trustworthy.

Still, she has a job to do: there’s a killer at large, and a pregnant woman has gone missing. Once Devlin and her partner get to work, they quickly unearth secrets involving Birmingham’s most esteemed citizens. Each new layer of the investigation brings Devlin closer to the killer and the missing woman, who starts looking more like a suspect than a victim.

But just as answers come into view, the case twists, expands, and slithers into Devlin’s personal life. There’s a much more sinister game at work, one she doesn’t even know she’s playing—and she must unravel the truth once and for all to stop the killer before she loses everything.

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What I thought about Trust No One

Detective Kerri Devlin in one of the top detectives in a best-of-the-best group detectives in Birmingham.  She has earned her reputation and is respected among her peers. When she gets a new partner with a dubious background, she's not sure it's all going to work out.  But through the investigation of this case, Kerri and Luke learn that you shouldn't judge a person by what you hear about them.

When a prominent member of the community is murdered in his bed, and his wife goes missing, Kerri and Luke have to unravel the clues to figure out just what is going on.  Falco doesn't hesitate to use his old contacts and Kerri's family problems intertwine with the case.  The case wasn't obvious to this reader, although I did guess a few things along the way, but that's the whole fun of reading a story like this one.

Trust No One contains a complicated crime and two very likeable characters in the lead roles. I like that everything wasn't completely resolved by the end of the book.    I'm looking forward to more in this series.

About the Author

(from debrawebb.com)

DEBRA WEBB is the USA Today bestselling author of more than 150 novels, including reader favorites the Faces of Evil, the Colby Agency and the Shades of Death series. She is the recipient of the prestigious Romantic Times Career Achievement Award for Romantic Suspense as well as numerous Reviewers Choice Awards. In 2012 Debra was honored as the first recipient of the esteemed L. A. Banks Warrior Woman Award for her courage, strength, and grace in the face of adversity. Recently Debra was awarded the distinguished Centennial Award for having achieved publication of her 100th novel. With this award Debra joined the ranks of a handful of authors like Nora Roberts and Carole Mortimer.

With more than four million books sold in numerous languages and countries, Debra’s love of storytelling goes back to her childhood when her mother bought her an old typewriter in a tag sale. Born in Alabama, Debra grew up on a farm and spent every available hour exploring the world around her and creating her stories. She wrote her first story at age nine and her first romance at thirteen. It wasn’t until she spent three years working for the Commanding General of the US Army in Berlin behind the Iron Curtain and a five-year stint in NASA’s Shuttle Program that she realized her true calling. A collision course between suspense and romance was set. Since then she has expanded her work into some of the darkest places the human psyche dares to go. Visit Debra at www.debrawebb.com.