I loved Lights Out so I knew i was gonna enjoy this one. I loved the dual timelines and the even pacing on this one. The twists were unpredictable and the characters were likable. I really enjoyed this one and i look forward to more in this series.

I know i m late but the bokk was good and after downloading i forgot to read but when i open my netgally app i regret not to read it at because its a nyc thriller and i thoroughly enjoyed this one

Dangerous Play by Elise Hart Kipness is an intense and gripping thriller that pulls you into the high-pressure world of women’s soccer while unraveling a chilling murder mystery. The story follows Kate Green, a reporter who dives deep into the investigation of a soccer player’s murder during the Olympics, uncovering hidden rivalries and secrets along the way. Kipness’s background in sports reporting shines through, adding authenticity and depth to the world of competitive sports. The characters are well-developed, and the plot is fast-paced, keeping you on the edge of your seat. If you enjoy a mix of sports, suspense, and mystery, Dangerous Play will definitely keep you hooked from start to finish.

Great sequel! Really enjoyed reading about another mystery that Kate gets to investigate. Hoping for a third!

Dangerous Play by Elise Hart Kipness is a thrilling, fast-paced mystery that expertly blends sports with suspense. Kate Green, a seasoned sports reporter, returns to cover the women’s Olympic soccer team, only to find herself embroiled in the murder of a former teammate, Alexa Kane. As Kate digs deeper into the case, old wounds resurface, especially with her estranged father, a detective with his own secrets. Kipness delivers a compelling, layered narrative that explores the intersections of personal history, betrayal, and the drive for justice, all while keeping readers on the edge of their seats.

After loving Lights Out the authors previous book I was anxiously waiting for the next book, and trust me when I say this series is becoming a favorite for me!!

This book takes right off where the last book left off with Kate, she is covering the women's Olympic soccer team. We’re shown more on her experience and days playing, and we see she has a past with the head coach Savannah Baker and let me tell you something she’s a real treat. She knows this will be one of her biggest stories yet she just wasn’t expecting a murder and her walking in on the head coach and star player standing over a body.
Famous jewelry designer Alexa Kane is found dead in the locker room, and it’s murder. Alexa played with Kate and Savannah on the US youth national team as a teenager. Kate and Alexa were once friends until an incident happened involving Savannah at the camp, and they stopped talking. Kate has felt guilty about what happened to Alexa and believes she failed as a friend. Kate is now determined to fix the past, Kate is going to uncover who killed Alexa but she soon finds herself she finds herself entangled in a web of secrets and scandal that links to their shared past. The story follows a timeline or back-and-forth and that really added to the story. Triggers - mention of child abuse, bully and rape.

Definitely enjoyed this book as much as the first in the series and I look forward to reading more of this series in the future!

I didn't think this was a super engaging story, I struggled to really get invested into the book. I didn't find out until halfway in that this was a series, so maybe I would have liked it better if I read the first one first. However I will say as someone who is a sports person, I did relate to a lot of this book which made it easier to read.

I enjoyed Lights Out, Kate Green #1, that I grabbed from Amazon Prime First reads, so I immediately requested Dangerous Play, Kate Green #2, when I saw it on NetGalley.

Best way to describe it is “fine”. It has a murder, some twists (some predictable, others surprising), and dual timelines.

I did take issues with some of the plot, like sports reporter Kate Green acting like a police officer and putting herself in dangerous situations… once again (did not learn her lesson the first time). I also found it hard to believe it took Kate so long to read a teenagers journal…

This one ended on a cliffhanger, so we know Kate Green #3 is inevitable. I don’t think I’ll pick it up but I would give Elise Hart Kipness another shot.

I’m not usually into crime thrillers but this was fast paced and short! I was able to binge read it and didn’t find myself bored at any point. The character development was stunning

Kate Green is becoming one of my favorite characters and I enjoyed this book as much as the first. The dual timelines work great in this story with the "then" contributing additional background knowledge that may be pertinent to the case. Kate's ties to the victim bring her past into play and also her estranged father. The character development and growth is fantastic and I'm already looking forward to the next Kate Green mystery.

Everyone’s favorite sports reporter is back and covering women’s soccer at the Olympics. I really liked Lights Out and was excited to learn it’s a series. Amateur sleuths are usually in cozy mysteries, but this series has a little more suspense and thrill than your normal cozy.

It’s hard not to like Kate as she stumbles onto these murders then works to clear her name and save her job. I liked the dual timeline linking Kate to both the murder and the suspects.

Those twists got me. The intertwined story with Kate as a teenager worked seamlessly with the current story and kept me wanting more. I usually like one storyline over another, but I liked both equally and wasn’t disappointed when the story flipped back and forth.

This could easily be read as a stand alone, but you’ll understand Kate more if read together with Lights Out. Amazon lists a third book in the series and I cannot wait to read it.

Chanté McCormick is the narrator and did a great job. She kept the pace up and brought Kate and her story to life. Both young and present Kate.

Former Olympic soccer player, Kate Green, is now a reporter on assignment covering the US Olympic soccer games. She had previous experience playing with the coach, Savannah Baker, so she hopes this will be a career changing story. However, the story takes a different turn when Alexa Kane, a famous jewelry designer who also played with Kate and Savannah, is found dead and Kate’s past and present suddenly collide, making this a page turning whodunnit murder mystery!

This book is the second one in the series but can totally be read as a standalone. I enjoyed the dual timeline. It really showed just how much the girls went through to make it as Olympic players and it gives a glimpse into the past relationship dynamics between Kate, Savannah and Alexa. I loved Kate’s character and her determination to get justice for Alexa and make up for past mistakes. As she works with her estranged father who is a police detective, she tries to uncover the truth, and in doing so, realizes more than one person has been keeping secrets. Why was Alexa even there in the first place and who would want her dead? This is a page-turner with short chapters which make it so easy to read! If you love a good murder mystery, give this one a try and find out just what happened to Alexa!

What a rollercoaster ride! This book was quite the addictive one. Give me sports, crime fiction, police procedural, whodunnit & I’m in!

From the start, this story had me wanting to pick the book up again and again. I loved the dual timelines because it answers all the questions you might have had from the beginning. I really enjoy the FMC, Kate, and some of the supporting characters as well. Some of those characters you will love to hate. Also, my love for short chapters will never go away.

This is a series, but you can definitely read this as a standalone. I seriously can’t wait for the next book. Thank you NetGalley and the publisher for this eArc of Dangerous Play.

Second book in the series was good but a bit predictable in some ways and yet still had some unexpected twists. I did prefer the first book slightly more but still enjoyed this one and looking forward to reading the next book in the series

Loved it! An exciting whodunit thriller that had me turning pages till the twist at the end. It’s book #2 in the Kate Green series. Kate Green is a former Gold Medal winner turned sports reporter and super sleuth. When a former teammate is murdered, Kate sets about solving the case!

This book was such a great follow up to lights out. Where as I think you can read them stand alone there's some mentions to what happened in the second that would make more sense if you read lights out. I really like how she tells and story and I didn't see what was coming at the end.
Thanks to net galley for my copy for my honest opinion

📚 PUBLICATION MONTH BOOK REVIEW 📚

Dangerous Play By Elise Hart Kipness
Publication Date: September 17, 2024
Publisher: Thomas & Mercer

📚MY RATING: ⭐⭐⭐⭐

📚MY REVIEW:

Elise Hart Kipness is back with more crime-thrilling mystery and one of my absolute favorite female protagonists...Kate Green! After devouring book one in this series, Lights Out, I was so excited to dig into Kate's next big adventure. Everybody over at Thriller Book Lovers The Pulse has been raving about this series since book one came out last year, and now I count myself among those who can't stop raving about it too!

Dangerous Play is a fantastic continuation of Lights Out , and while there are a handful of references to book one, I think you could easily read this as a standalone [although I'm not sure why you would want to miss out on a single minute of badass Kate's adventures!] Dangerous Play finds Kate entangled in another death investigation, though this time it is the death of a former soccer teammate and teenage friend. Kate works closely for a time with her estranged father, who is the NYPD detective assigned to the case.

This book felt a little more mystery and a little less thriller than book one, with the biggest distinction being that I wasn't quite as suspensefully on the edge-of-my-seat as I was in the first one. However, that's not to say I didn't really enjoy this book, because I did! There were some unexpected and interesting twists that I didn't see coming... And I genuinely like Kate as a female MC. Her perspective as a female sports reporter is such a unique twist in crime thrillers and the subplots always seem to keep her stories fresh and relevant.

I'm really keeping my fingers crossed that there's still more to come with Kate! If you're a fan of thrilling whodunnit mysteries and crime fiction, be sure you add the Kate Green series to your TBR! Thanks to Thriller Book Lovers The Pulse, NetGalley, and Thomas & Mercer for the advanced copy of this one in exchange for my honest review.

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I've officially added another series to my favorites list.  This is the 2nd book in the author's Kate Green series.  I read Lights Out last year and absolutely loved it, but I loved this one even more! 

Sports reporter Kate Green is back, and her new assignment is covering women's Olympic soccer.  She's definitely familiar with the sport since she used to be a professional player before an injury ended her career.  She also used to play with the USA's head coach, Savannah Baker.  This should be an easy story to reestablish her career.  But when famous jewelry designer Alexa Kane is found dead in the locker room, things get very complicated.  Kate, Savannah, and Alexa have a history.  They played on the US youth national team together, but Alexa quit soccer a long time ago, and they haven't spoken in years.  What was she doing in the stadium?  Kate starts to investigate with the help of her estranged father, an NYPD detective who has secrets of his own.  Will Kate be able to find out what happened without putting her own life in jeopardy?

This book was SO freaking good!  I seriously couldn't put it down!  I was so invested in the story I read it in one sitting!  It's totally bingeable, filled with mystery, suspense, and lots of drama!  Told in dual timelines, there's never a dull moment and the twists!🤯  Kate Green is such a great character! She's definitely become one of my favorites.  I seriously can not wait for book 3!  If you're looking for a highly addictive crime thriller, this is it!  I HIGHLY recommend this book!

Second in a new series about sports reporter Kate Green , Dangerous Play scores big as a character driven whodunnit mystery with many twists and turns. Kate is chosen to cover Women’s Soccer at the Olympics. The field at Yankee Stadium is being converted to a soccer pitch for the occasion. In Kate’s teen age years she was a promising soccer player who was selected for the US Youth National Team. The present Olympic coach , Savannah Baker, was a teammate of Kate’s. Hard feelings and long kept secrets have caused a rift between the two. And then…..a third former teammate, and Kate’s roommate at the time, Jewelry designer Alexa Kane is discovered murdered in the locker room ice bath. What on earth was she doing at the stadium? Who would want her dead?

Fast paced and totally engaging, this book is hard to put down as Kate finds herself once again trying to unravel a complicated situation. Her estranged father ( Liam) is a NYC police detective assigned to this case, so the two work together as in Kipness’s first book. While father and daughter unofficially team up to solve the murder, background is revealed in a second timeline during Kate ‘s own soccer playing days. So many memories. And a very big secret Kate has held in for way too long.

Smart, savvy, self driven Kate is able to juggle her job, family, recent boyfriend David, and amateur sleuthing, epitomizing how a strong woman can indeed have it all. It’s impossible not to love Kate. Elise Hart Kipness shows her strength as a writer as she weaves a tale that is more than just a murder mystery. Important societal issues such as family estrangement, bullying, lying, child abuse, rape and the personal toll of keeping deep dark secrets are all addressed with insight and compassion. While this book is the second of a series and is definitely a stand alone why not treat yourself to the debut, Light’s Out? I know I am hooked on this series. Four twinkling stars for a book that’s an engaging read. It was published on September 17, 2024 so you can read it NOW. My thanks to Netgalley and Thomas Mercer Publishers for and advance copy in exchange for my review.