Mia Voss, a DNA tracer for the Delphi Center, a prestigious private forensics laboratory, is endangered at every turn of Griffin's high-octane third Tracers novel (after July 2010's Unspeakable). After Mia narrowly survives a carjacking, her nephew's life is threatened, and several attempts are made on her life. Detective Ric Santos is investigating a few brutal sexual homicides and is determined to protect Mia at any cost. When Mia discovers a link between Ric's current cases and a cold case from six years before, it jeopardizes her life and her career and strains their already tenuous romantic relationship. The science is fascinating, the sex is sizzling, and the story is top-notch, making this clever, breakneck tale hard to put down. (Dec.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.

Mia Voss' day goes from bad to worse after being dressed down by her boss at the Delphi Center, a high-tech, high-powered, private forensic lab, where she is a DNA expert. A late- night run to a convenience store turns into a nightmare when a man puts a gun to her head and abducts her. Ric Santos, a sexy police detective who has a past with Mia, investigates, while fighting against their mutual attraction. After her rescue, Mia is called by someone claiming to be holding her young nephew, and she accedes to his demands that she remove from the lab evidence in the case of a serial rapist and murderer that Ric is working on. The caller seems to know everything about Mia, and Ric believes that her hijacking was not random. This suspenseful romance, the third in Griffin's Tracers series, stands alone and features the perfect mix of suspense and romance that made Catherine Coulter, Iris Johansen, and Tami Hoag popular with both women and men.--Tixier Herald, Diana Copyright 2010 Booklist