{"id":5430,"date":"2013-08-05T20:05:52","date_gmt":"2013-08-06T00:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=5430"},"modified":"2013-08-05T20:05:52","modified_gmt":"2013-08-06T00:05:52","slug":"thread-of-suspicion-and-thread-of-betrayal-by-jeff-shelby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=5430","title":{"rendered":"Thread of Suspicion, and Thread of Betrayal, by Jeff Shelby"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nOne of the delights of owning a Kindle<\/strong> is that often, when you\u2019ve finished a book in a series and just have to find out what happens next, you can go online and download it in a couple minutes. That\u2019s what I did when I\u2019d finished Jeff Shelby\u2019s Thread of Suspicion<\/a><\/i>, and went on to Thread of Betrayal<\/a><\/i>.
\nI reviewed the first book in this series, Thread of Hope<\/a><\/i>, last year, and gave it high praise. It was the story of a driven man, Joe Tyler, a former San Diego cop whose life got upended when his daughter was kidnapped from his front yard just before Christmas. He stopped being a cop and he stopped being a husband. Instead he became an investigator searching for lost children. He found every one he looked for \u2013 except for the one who mattered most.
\nBut at the end of Thread of Hope <\/i>he got a surprise \u2013 a cop friend handed him a photo taken from a seemingly unrelated missing child file. The photo was taken in Minneapolis, and showed two little girls, one of whom was clearly Elizabeth, his own daughter.
\nThread of Suspicion<\/i> finds him in Minneapolis in the bitter mid-winter, trying to locate the family of the other girl in the picture. When that trail fades out, he\u2019s referred to a local woman who\u2019s devoted her life to helping street kids. She agrees to use her contacts to help him, but in return she wants a favor. A homeless boy she\u2019d been particularly close to has disappeared, and because of his very special family situation he may be in serious danger. Solving that problem, Joe discovers a new trail of his own to follow. But he also gets a surprise that causes him to suddenly mistrust people he\u2019s believed in up to now.
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\nIn Thread of Betrayal<\/i> he teams up with his ex-wife Lauren in Denver, again on the trail of a daughter who now seems to be on the run from something. Repeated near-misses and disappointments make this one a real nail-biter. It ends with a kind of a resolution, but unanswered questions remain, so I suspect there\u2019ll be at least one more book in the series.
\nI highly recommend all the books in Jeff Shelby\u2019s Thread <\/i>series. I agonized with these people and sometimes wept with them. Jeff Shelby creates characters with blood in their veins, and that blood sometimes gets shed. Also I may have missed something, but I thought the language was pretty restrained.
\nMy highest recommendation. Loved them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of the delights of owning a Kindle is that often, when you\u2019ve finished a book in a series and just have to find out what happens next, you can go online and download it in a couple minutes. That\u2019s what I did when I\u2019d finished Jeff Shelby\u2019s Thread of Suspicion, and went on to … Continue reading Thread of Suspicion, and Thread of Betrayal, by Jeff Shelby<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7,15],"tags":[1409,3119,3122,3124],"class_list":["post-5430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","category-reviews","tag-jeff-shelby","tag-thread-of-betrayal","tag-thread-of-hope","tag-thread-of-suspicion"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5430\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}