#Sponosred #review I thought I would share a new novel with you is called Find Me (Detective Rhiannon McVee Crime Mystery Book 1) by Melissa Pouliot (Author). I received a PDF Copy of the book from the Author and Voracious Readers in exchange for this review. Inside this post is my affiliate links if you click on the links and make a purchase I will make a small percentage from the items you purchase.
Find Me is alternately interesting and annoying. the Author has brought us a story about a young woman becomes a police officer. She takes a rough urban assignment far from her Outback home and finds herself drawn to missing persons cases. I don’t know about you but that would be a interesting career but heartbreaking at times.
Rhiannon McVee is a new probationary officer in 1980s Australia looking to make a difference in the world. She comes from a rural farming/ranching town where she is no stranger to hard work. She and Mac, the love of her life, are forced into a long distance relationship while she goes to The Academy and then her assigned posting station 10 hours away.
When Rhee returns home between Academy and her new placement, she discovers her friend Leesa has gone missing. This event sparks Rhee’s mission to investigating missing persons reports – something police in the 1980s didn’t see as worth valuable police time. As Rhee faces the challenges of being a female officer in the 80’s she must learn to continue fighting and searching for those that the rest of the world has forgotten.
Here is a interesting tidbit abut the book: The Author Melissa Pouliot draws from her own family tragedy – her cousin Ursula who went missing in 1987. Ursula’s case was almost completely ignored and gained no traction until Melissa presented the case to a officer with a fresh set of eyes in 2014
About the book:
It is 1988 in Australia and people are missing. And when one goes missing, many more are lost. In outback Queensland, quiet and reserved teenager Leesa Richards disappears silently from her bedroom into the fog early one morning. Then cowboy Toby White leaves his pregnant wife Alice in a cloud of dust and mystery, never to be seen again. A world away, in the hustling inner City suburbs of Sydney, rebellious teenager Keely Johnson forms an elaborate plan to escape her boring suburban life and trade it for the excitement and glamour of the streets of Kings Cross.
The only child of Southwest Queensland sheep pastoralists, Rhiannon McVee has her eyes firmly set on swapping her cowboy boots for police-issue brogues. But with her parents and the love of her life Mac pressuring her to stay close to home, will her quest to find the missing be over before it begins?
From the harsh isolated Australian outback to the dangerous underbelly of Kings Cross, Rhiannon learns the hard way that when so many slip through the cracks, finding them is never as easy as it seems. And that when you leave the people you love, you might lose them forever. Find Me is a mix of crime and a delicate touch of outback romance, inspired by the author’s own personal missing persons tragedy. If you love Australian mystery and crime thrillers by Jane Harper (The Dry) and Candice Fox (Troppo), you’ll love the Detective Rhiannon McVee crime mystery series by bestselling Australian author Melissa Pouliot.
Meet the Author: Melissa Pouliot
Australian writer Melissa Pouliot, described by one of her children as a book writing machine, had her first story Santa’s Elf published in her local newspaper when she was eight. In her first year of university she wrote her first book on a typewriter, based on her time as a governess in outback Queensland, but put it aside to pursue a media career.
Twenty years later she returned to her novel writing dream and in 2013 released her debut crime thriller Write About Me, which sparked a new investigation into the baffling cold case mystery of her teenage cousin Ursula Barwick, who disappeared from Sydney Australia’s Kings Cross in 1987. During the renewed search for Ursula she published more crime novels to keep attention on the case – Find Me, When You Find Me, You’ll Never Find Me and in year five of the new investigation, to coincide with finding Ursula she published ‘Found’. Melissa continues to write crime fiction including her detective Rhiannon McVee series, while exploring the Australian outback and the many secrets it keeps.
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