The Memphis Cold Case novels by Patricia Bradley tackle cases that have gone cold over time. Justice Delivered relates such a case. Lured into sex-trafficking in her teens, Carly Smith exists trying to live down those years. A man, posing as a modeling scout, lured her to New York with the promise of a contract but ended up selling her into sex slavery. She managed to escape, but she lives in fear of discovery by the man from whom she escaped.
Now she returns to the place the terror started—-the place where her sister, Lia, lost her life shortly after they talked. The horror continues when the traffickers kidnap her niece, Lexi, as a lure to bring Carly into the clutches of her old captor, Blade.
She runs into an old flame, Logan Donovan, at her niece’s soccer game, discovering Logan coaches the team. He’s also a police detective working cold case files. When an unknown gunman targets Carly at Haven House, a safe house for trafficked girls, Logan knows he must become involved.
Bradley does an exceptional job of bringing her characters to life. We tremble with Carly as she thinks about the horrific existence she lived as a sex slave. We, too, fear her discovery by people from her past as she endeavors to find Austin King, the man who lured her away. On the other hand, Logan Donovan becomes the savior figure as he works to solve the mystery of the woman and the situation. Who can Carly trust? Logan? Maggie, the attorney engaged to David Raines, another cold case cop? Bradley keeps you guessing as the tale unravels. Four Stars.
Patricia Bradley lives in Mississippi. She is the founder of Aiming for Healthy Families, Inc., and a member of the American Christian Fiction Writers. The other three books in the Memphis Cold Case series are Justice Delayed, Justice Buried, and Justice Betrayed. You’ll want to get these as well as her Logan Point series. Check her out at PTBradley.com.
Revell Books gave me a copy of Justice Delivered but I was in no way obligated to write a review.