Annabel Lee by Mike Nappa

 The way the cover is drawn tell it all.  This is a suspense filled, can't put it down, book.

Annabel Lee doesn't understand why her uncle has put her in a deep underground army type bunker with a dog that growls at her.  He tells her not to open the door to anyone and leaves her with a secret code.

Trudi Coffey is a private investigator who owns her own firm.  Every day she reads the newspaper personal ads, especially the one word ad "safe".  One day she reads it and notices the word has changed.  The word now says "unsafe".  

She has a visit in her office by a Dr. Smith who is looking for a gift given to her by her ex-husband.  She doesn't turn the gift over.  Shortly after that visit she is visited by her ex.  She gives him the book - minus one thing she figures is very important.

Soon Trudi realizes that as much as she doesn't want to work with her ex-husband Samuel Hill, she is drawn into the mystery and she will need to use everything she has learned as a private investigator to work along with her husband to find what they are looking for.  More importantly she needs to use those skills to stay alive.

Mike Nappa does a remarkable job at drawing you into the story and leaves you not wanting to put the book down until you are finished.  His characters are compelling and very realistic.  I love who the story is told from the point of view of the different characters of Annabel, Trudi and The Mute.  You are seeing the story unfold from their eyes.  It makes the story much more personal.  I especially enjoyed how you could tell that Annabel has some education, but her grammar wasn't the best, though she keeps trying to correct herself!

I do have to say I found some of things near the end a little on the disturbing sound.  There was almost science fiction coming into play near the end of the book.  Though that was the part where it would have been impossible to put the book down as things were moving so fast at that point!

This book has been provided courtesy of Baker Publishing Group and Graf-Martin Communications, Inc.   I was not required to write a positive review.  The opinions I have expressed are entirely my own.