3.5 stars.

Special Angent Nikki Boyd is hunted by the unsolved abduction of her sister, Sarah, 10 years ago.
So she steps in in the full force when a girl goes missing. But this case quickly stops to be just official duty, as there is something personal present here.

Mixed feelings. This one is fast-going thriller, especially with the sensitive case of a teenager missing. And the emotionality presented here is very spot-on - the authoress captures the issues of longing, guilt, sadness, recovery and fighting with God because of not understanding of how He can allow the bad things to happen with great empathy and frankness. Very realistic! I was quite touched by this precious understanding of human emotions.
But, unfortunately, while I like the main heroine Nikki as character, I don't see her behave as a professional. Sure, the case is very personal for her - but all the criminal-searching is not methodical, not professional, not coordinated - as if all the policemen are just the playthings in the hands of too clever criminal. She does not behave as a trained professional, but like a damsel in distress to be saved by the hunky friend all the time. I also don't like the sudden, accidental motives and never-addressed issues to just hop on very suitably to help to solve the riddle/s.

But, on the other hand, I love the unconventional romance here (even if the guy is too perfect to be real), but this angle is new! And I like my angles being fresh.

So while I can not say this is a good book in the mystery department, I can recommend the novel for all the spot-on emotional questions and deep issues played here. And I say it as a compliment.

I absolutely loved this book! Nikki was such a great character. The suspense was phenomenal! I highly recommend this book and plan to reread it in the future!

What a fabulously engaging book that keeps one on the edge of ones seat until the very end. I will have to warn you that as soon as you finish this book you will be eager to read the second to see how things progress.
An engaging heroine and a sweet developing love story. i cannot wait to read the next book in this amazing series.

Sometimes, I like to relax at night with the first chapter from a brand new book, so I can get the beginning firmly planted in my mind while all is quiet at my house. That turned out to be a huge mistake with this one. From the very beginning, the author launches into the private lives and thoughts of the two main characters, Nikki and Tyler, then sends them off to find a missing person. I felt as if I was given a window through which to watch actual events into an real-life investigation along with the exciting discoveries and disappointments that go along with it. And it was so gripping, I had a hard time putting this down.

The two main characters are friends who are both grieving the loss of loved ones. While Nikki’s sister was abducted ten years before and never found, Tyler’s wife died in a boating accident more recently. Lisa Harris does an excellent job of showing how this has affected them. For Nikki, it was the start of a career finding other missing people and hoping that someday she can get some answers. In this book, Tyler ends up being a part of the investigation because he was with his friend when the call came in.

I can’t say enough good things about this book, and I very much appreciate that this is a Christian book and does not have the sex scenes that seem to be thrown into just about every secular mystery I have read lately. If you like good, clean mysteries, this is an excellent choice.

Lisa Harris has written a great series of mystery and suspense, The Nikki Boyd Files. In this first book of the series, “Vendetta”, we are led through a maze of mysterious events which also lead to multiple murders, seeming with no reason. Nikki and her team of investigators as members of the Tennessee Missing Persons Task Force, follow the clues, the suspects, the victims and the crimes to solve the abduction of a young girl. This case harkens back to ten years earlier when Nikki’s sister, Sarah, was abducted, never to be seen again. Nikki has been on the lookout for her abductor ever since. Is this the work of the same person or a copy-cat crime?

Into the mix, we find Tyler Grant, the widower of Nikki’s best friend, Katie. The two of them are just discovering the feelings they have for one another and striving not to feel guilty that with Katie’s death, they lean on each other for comfort in their grief. Neither one expected their feelings to escalate as they did.

This mystery kept me on the edge of my seat all the way to the end. The list of suspects grew along with the dead bodies. I could not put the book down and will definitely continue to read any books by Lisa Harris.