What a great book. I won the entire series (8 books in all).

This first book tells the story of the Star-Crossed Killer, someone who targets women and causes them to get into a car accident. She is then "rescued" and cared for before being left to die somewhere.

Selena Alvarez and Regan Pescoli are the detectives who are investigating the killings. During the investigation, there is a random victim who is in a car accident and rescued and cared for but is not part of the killings. This is a parallel story to the killing story.

Great book. It was hard for me to put down. Looking forward to reading the rest of the series. ( )

This is the first book in the Alvarez & Pescoli serial and I loved it! Jillian Rivers crashes her car in a snowstorm, and Zane McGregor finds her freezing and trapped inside. He takes her back to his cabin, where he does his best to nurse her back to health while not being able to call anyone or take her to a hospital. While this is going on, Selena Alvarez and Regan Pescoli are trying to solve a series of murders where a woman's empty car is found crashed in the snow, and days later her dead body is found.
The POV changes between multiple characters, and you start to wonder if Jillian is the next victim. Alvarez and Pescoli both have a lot going on in their personal lives along with being female police officers trying to solve this case. There is barely any evidence, other than notes found with the bodies...but they aren't clear notes, and figuring out the puzzle before the next victim is found is near impossible.
As the story unfolds, Zane looks more and more like he could be who they're looking for, and who's to say that he's not?
All in all, a great start to this serial. If you love female characters who have real problems like everyone else but still go to work and get things done, then you'll enjoy these books. I'd recommend if you enjoy Marie Force, Heather Graham, or Karin Slaughter novels. The next book is definitely on my TBR pile! ( )

This was a nail biter for sure. Just when I thought I figured out who the killer was I was totally wrong! Can't wait to finish Chosen to Die ( )

Good who done it. Left you guessing. At the end of each book you were left so sure you knew who the killer was (besides one sick sob) ( )

Please note that I gave this book 3.5 stars but rounded it up to 4 stars on Goodreads.

So here's the thing. When one is on a boat for 9 days and realize that the Kindle/Nook gods have forsaken you and you realize that your boat has a library (oh yeah baby) you grab a book that looks interesting. I finished and started this book all on the same day and really enjoyed it, though I had some problems with having a third lead (really not necessary and also confusing) the pacing, and also with the cliffhanger ending. I promptly bought book #2 after reading this because I was on pins and needles to see how things got resolved.

"Left to Die" follows to partners, Detectives Selena Alvarez and Regan Pescoli as they are on the hunt for a serial killer in Grizzly Falls, Montana.

I have to say out of the partnership, I really liked Selena a lot more than Regan. Selena is single and very much focused on her job. She is more inquisitive than her partner Regan and I like that we don't for once have a woman who is good at her job that is broken.

Regan on the other hand I was pretty well sick of by the end of the book. She is obsessed with some unknown named man she is sleeping with (and the book and others pretty much come out and call her a "slut" for sleeping with multiple men) and has two of the worst children that I have come across in a book for some time. Seriously girl, I would have liked you more if you had slapped your kids just once. Regan has been widowed once and divorced once and is struggling to raise her kids while dealing with an ex that does not give one shit about paying for the kids, but likes to pick at what a bad mom she is.

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One reason why I only gave this book 3.5 stars is that though the series promises to be focused on our two detectives, we bring in a third primary lead with Jillian Rivers. Jillian keeps getting mysterious phone calls that seem to be about her presumed dead first husband. Traveling through Montana her car gets into an accident and a man named Zane McGregor rescues her. I am not going to lie. I thought Jillian's whole storyline could have been cut from the book and I would not have missed it. I thought it was a joke that we have Jillian talking about how many self defense classes and styles of martial arts she was trained in and we get to the end of the book and she pretty much got her butt handed to her by someone.

There are some secondary characters we get to follow in this book and one of the main secondary characters is the actual serial killer. Can I say something? I always think it's weird when we have these stories and the killers leave clues behind? I mean why? You want to get caught? I don't get it myself. So this serial killer is leaving a lot of clues behind and Regan and Selena are not getting them.

I thought there was honestly too many plots going on in the book. I liked Regan and Selena's plots more and it took forever for Jillian to even get involved with the main story in my mind.

The writing was okay. I did think the flow was hampered by switching perspective so much.

Montana was well used as a setting since Jackson does impress upon you remote areas, the coldness of the winter, and the clothes people wear to compensate for how cold they are at all times. I was sitting outside soaking up sunshine for as long as possible while reading this book.

The ending really annoyed me and also had me running to get the next book. It ends on a cliffhanger and I kid you not I said out loud, "Not cool." and went and downloaded the next one in this series to read what happens next. ( )