Book Review: The Chase by DiAnn Mills

Last week my sister gave me a copy of The Chase (she knows I’m a sucker for good romantic suspense). What a fantastic novel! Kariss Walker is a reporter-turned-writer who has decided to turn her back on women’s fiction to chase down a story from her reporter days that continues to haunt her. The plan is to fictionalize it and provide the ending that the police were never able to find. She enlists the help of a friend who works for the FBI. He, in turn, assigns Special Agent Tigo Harris to help her (or as he says, “babysit”). Sparks, as you would imagine, fly, bad guys are chased, twists are twisted and unexpected turns crop up when you least imagine they will (though that kind of goes with the whole “unexpected” label, doesn’t it?)

At the end of the day, The Chase is an incredibly well written novel with just the right of romance and just the right amount of suspense to keep the pages turning. The well versed suspense reader will probably figure out most of the twists before the end of the book, but you get invested enough in the characters that that really doesn’t make a difference one way or the other as far as enjoyment goes. It’s the first book in a series (at least it seems like the first book and I can’t find others before, there’s a sneak peak into the next at the end of the book) and I’ll definitely be looking for the next one when it’s out. If you like romantic suspense and/or police procedurals (because really, the romance is very lightly handled – it’s by no means the predominant issue in the book), you’ll probably enjoy this like I did.