Great story by Linda Ladd. Really great plot, characters and writing. Thrilling story that kept me turning the pages.

This series is not as good as Ladd's Claire Morgan, but it still is packed with suspense and thrills and chills. Thank you NetGalley

This is a full-on action story with river pirates, murder, amnesia, violence, and active investigation.
A scream in the darkness of the night along with witnessing a murder and an attempt to murder, awakens Will Novak from his strangely drifting life. Rescuing the woman from the river and being threatened by pirates makes Will's life further complicated. The investigation into the woman's life brings the twists and turns to this story and it makes one pleasant yet bumpy ride.
This is Linda Ladd's second book in the Will Novak series and it has everything which an action packed novel should have.

Say Your Goodbyes
Linda Ladd

Will Novak just wanted to get away from everything and everyone. He was sleeping on his sailboat in the Caribbean when a scream woke him up. Will thinks it is another nightmare. Sadly for him it's not.

This is the start of the action and it just keeps getting better and better. He saves the girl but she says she can't remember who she is. He decides to take her to the nearest port but that doesn't happen. The more he tries to save her the deeper he gets. He starts to think she is hiding the truth and using has her own agenda. Pirates attack and they end up in the Yucatan jungle. At the same time there is a sadistic killer after them. It's just keeps getting better and better.

Once I started the kindle version I couldn't stop. The mysterious killer, the jungle, the Mexican drug lord, the missing friend. All this comes together into one thrilling, chilling, psychological thriller. You won't be able to stop till the end. The characters are well crafted and the story line is very believable. I loved this novel. You will too.


I received this copy from the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review So glad I did.

This book is not for me. Only at six percent and this rescued girl has been described about three to four times. I can hold on to details from page to page, I don't need a description every page. Then we have Will ogling this possible teenager and comparing her beauty to his dead wife's. Really? Then we fall right back into repetition. There is way too much unnecessary detail. Would not recommend this book to anyone and will skip this author in the future.

Say Your Goodbyes by Linda Ladd
Will Novak Thriller #2

More talkative than Reacher but with similarities the hero of this book, Will Novak, is about a man who has lost the woman he loves and his children, has been a policeman and a SEAL, works as a private detective for Claire (from the series this broke off from) and is wealthy, ruthless and haunted by things in his past. While out on the sea regrouping and mourning he hears a scream. He saves a girl but does not trust her. He is captured by pirates but gets away. He eludes a scalping assassin known as the “Mayan”. He meets with a drug lord. He reaches out to a CIA friend he knows in South America. He meets with a previous lover. And that is not all that happens by a long shot. He eventually figures out that his gut was right to be suspicious of just about everything and everyone because what has been said and done and seemed to be maybe true was not true at all. There are twists and turns, violence, torture, attempted rape, friends to help out and friends who are hurt, a child saved and some bad guys that meet their maker. This is a standalone book and I am not sure that it would make a huge difference in reading it to have read the first book in the series or the series about Claire. I enjoyed it and it kept me entertained and made me think I would like to read another book by this author either about Will or perhaps about Claire to find out more about the writing style and the people I met in this book.

Thank you to NetGalley and Kensington Books – Lyrical Underground for the ARC – This is my honest review.

4 Stars

Exciting, action-packed adventure. More violence involved than I normally care to read. Some surprise twists and some things I was amazed were not discovered by the protagonist earlier in the story.. I would like to read the first one in this series and any that follow. Linda Ladd kept my interest and created interesting characters.

Say your Goodbyes by Linda Ladd.
Novak is drowning his sorrows on his boat when he hears a woman scream. He looks through his rifle lens and see a woman running from a man with a gun. What happens next gets Novak to help the girl. Who is this girl that he saved. That is what Novak must find out.
This was a really enjoyable read with great characters. I liked novak. I did not expect that. Wow. 5*. Netgalley and Kensington books.

This is Will Novak book number two. Will is a private investigator that has joined forces with Claire Morgan. This book is filled with action!!! There's a serial killer that scalps their victims, a woman who who is not who she says she is, pirates and a Mexican drug lord . This book has a great storyline and is very suspenseful from start to finish!! Loved this book and the characters ! I recommend reading book one to understand Will's story but this can be read as a standalone. Thanks to Linda Ladd , Kensington Books- Lyrical Underground and Netgalley for the digital copy in exchange for my honest review.

This was a good follow up to the first Will Novak Thriller. In this one, Will is on his boat in the Caribbean when he hears screaming during the night. After he witnesses a murder, Will rescues a young woman from another boat. Soon, Will is being chased across the water and through the jungle. Will needs to solve the mystery of what's happening before it is too late for him to save himself.

Will is a great character, and this book had him in a fast paced, action filled adventure. The storyline was suspenseful and kept me engrossed. Thanks to the publisher and NetGalley for providing a copy of this book in return for an honest review.

The book was like a Alice in wonderland style PI novel. I recommend it for people who like Magnum PI

Will Novak is sailing his ship when he hears a woman scream. He observes a man shoot someone on a boat and assault a woman and throw her overboard. Will manages to chase the bad guy away and rescue the woman. From the first moment he knows she is not telling him the truth. Will has no idea what kind of trouble is coming his way.

This book is full of action and suspense. You have a woman who can't be trusted to tell the truth, a deadly assassin and a Mexican drug lord. This book will grab you from the beginning and hold on til the end. Thank you to net galley for an advanced readers copy.

Will Novak wakes in the early hours hearing a woman scream. Nothing new to him, he's had this nightmare before. But these screams are real and coming from a boat nearby.

When Will sees a man shoot another and then hit the woman and throw her overboard, he jumps into action, scares the killer away and rescues the young woman.

At first she says she remembers nothing .. but Will's spider senses are telling him something different. And when river pirates come at them with everything they have, he's demanding to know what she knows .. because these people are after her.

Just who is she .. other than a consummate actress? And why are these men after her?

This is one action-packed book from the very beginning to the very end. Besides a young woman who isn't who she says she is, Will has to contend with a serial killer who scalps his victims and then cuts their throat. He is also after the young woman. Throw in a Mexican drug lord and his minions, a woman from Will's past, and his partner, Clair Morgan and her husband, Dr. Nicholas Black and I guarantee the reader will not want to put this book down.

For those who have read and enjoyed this author's series featuring Claire Morgan, this series is just as good or better! Will Novak has joined forces with Claire, both working as private investigators. Claire and her husband have not disappeared, they pop up in the strangest places.

Although second in the series, it does well as a stand alone, with just a hint of what happened in Book 1. I do recommend that they be read in order.

Many thanks to the author / Kensington Books - Lyrical Underground / Netgalley for the advanced digital copy. Opinions expressed here are unbiased and entirely my own.