I keep trying to give detective novels a chance, but nothing is delivering what I want. I wish I could get into procedurals and detective dramas, because so many people are into them, but this book was not for me.

I didn't realize this book was part of a series and I'm not really big into reading series...I prefer standalone titles. As such I am no longer interested in reading this book and will be unable to provide feedback at this time. Thank you for the opportunity.

Book #1 of the Devlin and Falco detective duo was a good start for this tag team. These two detectives are new partners on opposite ends of the job it seems since Devlin is a "by the book" type detective and Falco seems to be a "fly by the seat of his pants" type who is quick and loose! Makes for an interesting combo while having a double-homicide land in their laps, and have a missing pregnant woman who has a murdered husband and mother left behind in the wake of her disappearance. In this well to do posh neighborhood there seems to be many secrets hiding under the surface! What is keeping everyone from talking and helping the detectives solve the homicides and find Sela the missing pregnant woman?! The secrets of the elite are coming to fruition once Devlin and Falco start to dig in!! There are a lot of characters to follow as each secret is unearthed one layer at a time but this was a pretty good read that I enjoyed. Thank you NetGalley, and the publisher Thomas & Mercer for the chance to read and review!

What happens when the pregnant wife goes missing after a double homicide? I did like this one, but there were a lot of characters and storylines to keep straight. Maybe I shouldn't read when I'm tired. The Devlin and Falco team had good chemistry and I will definately sign up for the following book in the series. Recommended.

Great book. Highly recommend and will most defiantly read more by this author and suggest to others!

I wanted to but just couldn't love it! It was slow at times and not believable. I rate this book a 2.1

I love that this book has a strong female lead who is the senior detective in the partnership. She isn't a rookie looking to learn from the old guard (male) detective. Instead, Luke Falco is the newer of the two and Kerri Devlin is in charge. I did feel like that the connections between all the many characters was a bit too convenient and made the story feel more like it should be placed in a small town instead of Birmingham, Alabama. It felt a bit too coincidental, every character had a part in the overall arc of the story. There were no characters there to just be characters. The last chapter felt unnecessary and follows the idea that the reader needs every single part explained, sometimes a second time. More faith needs to be given to their ability to intuit from the book those minor points. But, the story concept was quite interesting and a unique twist on the trope of "secrets of the privileged." I look forward to more from this detecting duo!

I thought this one was okay. It starts right out with Detective Devlin making a really poor decision. Starting out with what feels like.....corruption was not a great start. I struggled to find respect for Devlin the rest of the story. Add to it that she's not terribly nice at first and seems to think Falco has to earn respect (yikes! When she screws up so bad!) was rough to also stomach.

But the mystery was interesting and I did like the twists and turns. And I liked Devlin.

The story shows promise. I'd like to see less personal story interwoven - causes the story to slow down.
I will try another from this writer.

Started slow, picked up quick and flew by. Good writing, good story over all good! Many thanks to the Publisher and to NetGalley for providing me with a galley in exchange for my honest opinion

This book starts off ominously with our lead protagonist doing something wrong. I was not very encouraged by the start of events because although I like my gray characters, this seemed a little too off.
Things got better from that point. Detective Kerri Devlin has been saddled with a new partner and thrown into a very high-profile case. The case starts as a simple home invasion but has far-reaching consequences. There are private chapters from the point of views of other characters, which adds some depth to the narrative. We have an odd pairing of people who do not trust each other but, when personal issues continue to dominate Kerri's life, she needs all the support she can get. It is fast-paced, although longer than I would have liked.
It seemed odd that everything circled back to our lead, an idea that I gave into only partially by the time the end rolled around.
I received an ARC from NetGalley, but I actually ended up listening to an audible version. As with a couple of my other older 'reads', I liked the book because of the narration. Listening to the drama made it seem all the more intricate.
Despite the predictable turn of events, this was a good book for its genre. I felt justified in my way of thinking when events unfolded. Given the content, I felt the size of the story could have been trimmed a little. I would have liked it a lot more if it was even a little bit shorter.
I would recommend this to anyone on the lookout for a new police procedural to follow. Since this is just the first of the series, I think it will get better with the following books now that the people have been established.

So good! Exactly what you would want from this genre - thrilling, not too predicable, and just enough twists and turns.

As a Debra Weber fan, I was excited to dig into Trust No One. Detectives Falco and Devlin team up to solve multiple murders in Birmingham, Alabama. As this is a new series, the first half is a slow build with lots of character development. The pace really picks up in the second half and I was hooked. Excited for future books in this series.
Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

4.5 stars

This is the first book in the Devlin & Falco series by Debra Webb.

Definitely loving this new series by Debra Webb.

Kerri Devlin is going through a tough time with her daughter wanting to spend more time with her Dad, while the ex is also threatening to go for full custody. Then a double homicide falls into her lap. A man and his mother-in-law are found dead and suspects are few and far between.

This was a great ride. It was hard to weed out who the real killer was even though that person had a POV chapter every so often thrust between the action of the detectives. I thought this was a great building book and gave us great characterization as well as a setting that truly stood out. They whodunit was spot on as well.

Definitely dig into this series!

If you love a good police procedural, detective fiction mystery, definitely check this one out.

I received this as an ARC (Advanced Reader Copy) in return for an honest review. I thank NetGalley, the publisher and the author for allowing me to read this title.

Well-written story with great characters, fast paced and really interesting made this book a page turner. Action filled from the start, it doesn't let up and it was impossible to put the book down. Great first book to a promising new series.

Detective Kerri Devlin is stuck with a new partner who has a reputation as a loose cannon; the pair is on a homicide case that is turning out to be more layered and complicated than it first seemed; and Devlin can't seem to keep her teenage daughter happy or her ex-husband off her case.

Webb provides multiple mysteriously missing persons, mixed motivations, naive characters who might be ruined by the sinister people in power, and an occasional first-person narrator who isn't what they first seem. I thought the periodic emergence of that point of view was really intriguing.

A few nitpicky notes: Some vital events occur off screen and are then summarized by Devlin, and I was confused as to why, because this largely takes the punch out of them. I wasn't sure the repeated foreshadowing that everything was about to go to hell worked without backing it up sooner with actual havoc. The multiple villains felt almost interchangeable in that they were equally reprehensible. And a very minor issue: the "Hey, pretty girl" greeting from the recently met grown-man male detective partner to Devlin's thirteen-year-old daughter was jarring and puzzling. To a lesser extent, so was the daughter's telling her traumatized aunt how pretty she is (while soothingly brushing her aunt's hair).

I didn't feel as though the detectives' conclusions or police work were always logical. (No one checked the medications or searched the baby's bedroom after the crime? Police and family are worried about a teenage character who disappeared, yet they don't go by her workplace, where she says she is reporting each day, because they don't want to compromise her internship? A detective says to someone who is about to confess something potentially related to the case, "I won't tell anyone"? No one thinks to offer protection to a loved one who's about to potentially fatally antagonize a culprit? Rule-follower Devlin's behavior at one crucial moment goes against her solid training and against her character as shown to us thus far--will there be repercussions in later books, or is this considered renegade justice she's suddenly taking part in?)

The beautifully complementary, mismatched partnership between Devlin and Falco was my favorite aspect of the book. I also loved Falco's back story and his mysterious contact Cross, and I'd love to see more of both of them in future books. I'm a sucker for an unlikely detective partnership, and this was a good one.

Webb has written 150 novels. One hundred and fifty. But this is the first book I've read of hers, courtesy of NetGalley and Thomas & Mercer in exchange for an honest review.

I received a complimentary digital copy of this book from NetGalley and the publisher in exchange for an unbiased review.

“What the eye doesn’t see, the heart doesn’t grieve…”

The book begins with an active scene where Detective Kerri Devlin just killed an unknown man in a struggle with her gun. She crashes her car on the way to meet her partner Detective Luke Falco on the scene of a double homicide. Kerri is divorced from Nicholas Jackman who lives in NYC and shares custody of their 13 year old daughter Victoria "Tori" in Birmingham.

The story proceeds by going back 10 days to provide the events leading up to the fatal struggle over her gun. Kerri works for Major Dontrelle Brooks in the Major Investigations Division of the Birmingham Police Department. Her partner of 7 years Trent Boswell has recently retired and isn't thrilled with being paired with a new transfer with questionable work ethics. When they are assigned to a double homicide involving some of the towns most influential people, she learns to rely and trust her new partner more than she could have imagined. They try to unravel the mystery regarding the deaths of 40 year old Benjamin Abbott and his 70 year old mother-in-law, Jacqueline Rollins. It appeared that they were shot to death but Ben's wife 28 year old Sela Rollins Abbott is 30 weeks pregnant and missing.

Ben Abbott's father Daniel Abbott takes pride in the fact his ancestors founded Birmingham. The story becomes complicated as the cast of characters are revealed each with his and her own secrets including Detective Devlin. While emmeshed in solving this case she comes to realize that the stakes are high when her sister Diana's family is somehow involved. No one can be trusted to tell the truth which leads the investigation in circles. Wealthy, influential people often feel they are above the law and it's consequences as they go to extremes to protect and conceal secrets which would lead to the demise of their reputation and fortune.

Thus is the first book in a new series by this author and one not to be missed. The story continues in Gone Too Far (Devlin & Falco, book 2) due to be published 4/27/2021.

This is definitely a thrill ride. The story is fast paced and intense. The characters are well developed. The author takes you on a white knuckled express ride to heck. There is alot going on in this book and the main character has alot of backbone. I could not put this story down. It was a sinister tale but extremely well written. I definitely recommend you read this one.

Overall, I enjoyed this novel, particularly the elaborate twists and turns of the whodunnit plot, and the burgeoning friendship/partnership between our protagonists, Devlin and Falco (dare I also say burgeoning romance?). There were a couple of drawbacks to the book: 1) There is a large cast of characters, which made things a bit convoluted at times; and 2) (mild spoiler) One of the book’s criminals is allowed off scot-free, and our heroes aren’t exactly law-abiding, either. That said, I would continue with this series.

My thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for an ARC.

Well, this book was certainly a pleasant surprise! I’ve never read a Debra Webb book before, so I didn’t know what to expect. The book is billed as the double homicide of Daniel Webb and his mother-in-law, and the disappearance of his pregnant wife Sela. The investigation is led by harried Detective Kerri Devlin whose former partner and mentor has retired, and now she’s been saddled with a new partner, rebel Detective Luke Falco. The pressure is great to solve this case and to make matters worse, her manipulative ex-husband wants custody of their thirteen-year-old daughter Tori.

The suspects begin to pile up, including a number of high-profile local citizens who have many secrets to protect. In addition, her own niece Amelia goes missing and it seems she is attached to the case as well. As the case intensifies, Devlin must decide who to trust. Will her new partner prove to be trustworthy?

The first part of this book was a slow build, mostly character building, and there were a lot of characters, so many that I had trouble keeping them straight at times. Around the halfway mark it really picked up the pace and I was hooked up until the climatic end. I will be checking out her backlist for sure.