Thank you Atlantic Crime, #partner, for the advanced copy of The Whisper Place in exchange for my honest review.
Publisher: Atlantic Crime
Published: September 16, 2025
Summary:
The latest thriller in the USA Today bestselling Iowa Mysteries series starring Max Summerlin and Jonah Kendrick, an unlikely pair of private investigators who specialize in finding people who don’t want to be found.
How do you find a woman who doesn’t exist?
As a former police officer and a psychic detective, Max Summerlin and Jonah Kendrick may not be the most conventional business partners. But together, they have years of investigative experience, and opening Celina Investigations feels like a natural decision.
When a man walks into their office searching for his missing girlfriend without a past or even a name, Max and Jonah realize their newest client may present their hardest challenge yet. Their first task: find out why he refuses to go to the police.
Meanwhile, a woman drives across the country with all her belongings packed into a car, desperate to escape a dark past. The question posed to the fleeing woman is the same one that keeps Max and Jonah awake at night: can you ever really change your life?
From an 80’s-inspired bakery to a horrifying house at the edge of the woods, Max and Jonah unearth the missing woman’s shocking past, and in the process, put themselves directly in the path of the terror she was trying to outrun.
My thoughts:
I am absolutely loving this series so far, and this latest installment really kept me on my toes! I love that each book is a self-contained case…and while each can certainly be read as a stand-alone, I highly recommend reading the series as a whole as characters tend to pop up from previous books and when they do, you have a better understanding of who they are and how they relate if you’ve read all the books.
Anyway, this book is a fast-paced, at times emotionally charged, read that really had me wondering where it was heading. While the previous books leaned more into the paranormal, this one still has that but relies more on trauma and memories. It’s deep, and at times, quite dark.
This book just may be my favorite of the series to date…and that’s saying something as I’ve really enjoyed the previous books. I’m already counting down the days until the next one comes out…providing there is one! And I really hope there is!!
Books in this series:
- To Catch a Storm
- A World of Hurt
- The Whisper Place
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