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Thin Air

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Oooo y'all I really was captured by this story... it had a creepy start which I absolutely love... Lisa Gray did a fantastic job at keeping my interest throughout the whole book. I promise you will not be able to guess the ending!

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This was a great thriller. It kept me guessing until the very end, and I usually figure it out pretty quickly. I'm looking forward to reading more from this author.

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I love a book where it leaves me guessing until the very end. I had quite a few theories as to what happened, but none of them were correct. I didn’t give it 5 stars because I felt like Amy’s character was randomly thrown into the plot. Overall, I did enjoy reading this book.

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Thin Air by Lisa Gray is a murder mystery thriller that I am happy to have added to my end of summer reading. A Private Investigator is at loose ends in her life, looking for her next case to come along when she comes across a missing child poster with a picture she recognizes immmediately - a picture of her as a small child! What ensues is a thrilling investigation into her own past to learn about the mother she knew nothing about and the fathers she thought she knew everything about. I received an ARC of this book, all opinions are my own.

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I always like reading a book with the authors go back-and-forth between characters and hearing their sides.

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Jessica Shaw is a PI looking for her next case. While looking she receives an anonymous email of a link to a picture of missing child, Alicia Lavelle. As soon as she sees the picture, she immediately recognizes the young girl as herself. I loved this book. I was hooked from beginning to end! I honestly wasn't sure what direction the book would go. I would recommend this book.

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A story that could easily have been taken from the headlines in any major city, a private investigator who specializes in finding missing persons, learns she is an actual missing person! This unique premise takes us into some less than desirable locations while our heroine looks for answers. What she finds only raises more questions. Lisa Gray has done an excellent job of pulling us into the community of characters that populate this story, making us care about them. As soon as I finished this book, I told all my book buddies, you HAVE to read this one!

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A excellent debut novel .
A thrilling read had me gripped from the first page. I couldn't guess the killer so the ending was a shock for me

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The early plots are slightly confusing. However the author has a firm grasp and everything starts to slot into place.
Overall this is a good read. It’s the first in the series and I will be reading the next one

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A private investigator receives an anonymous email regarding a missing toddler - 20 years ago she was taken and her mother killed. Jessica realizes she is the child in the photo and begins to research her past. Fast paced, quick read.

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Excellent mystery about a female PI who sets off to solve her own abduction as a child and the truth about her mother. Thin Air is the first of a series, and I’m looking forward to the next book.

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A tense and thrilling journey into the dark underbelly of the City of Angels. Gray hits the ground running in this debut, and intrepid PI Jessica Shaw is a character to watch.

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The first book to feature PI Jessica Shaw and it’s a cracking start to what I hope will be a long running series. Shaw is an immediately likeable main character and Thin Air places her at the heart of the narrative.

Shaw discovers she is a kidnap victim, taken from her family at a very young age and seemingly brought up by a family who are not her own. Determined to investigate her own past and a seemingly forgotten crime Jessica heads to LA where she shall encounter a cop called Pryce.

Pryce is investigating the brutal murder of a student who, despite her wholesome image, has been hiding a secret life from her friends.

The two investigations have a very different feel, Pryce in the immediate and unsettling present while Jessica digs into events long forgotten. Lisa Gray balances the twin narrative superbly and the story zipped along pulling me deeper into the lives of Shaw and Pryce.

Tension packed thrillers are my reads of choice and this was everything I had hoped it would be. I need some more Jessica Shaw in my life.

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Excellent psychological thriller! It moved at a fast pace with twists and turns throughout! Well-developed characters and plot. Highly recommend!

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This book is definitely a fast paced mystery/thriller. Now, for me the lead character Jessica is a little hard to take sometimes. But, she is a strong, female lead trying to figure out her past and figuring out who killed her mother.

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A thriller that will keep your interest the whole book! There were a few slow parts, but that is to be expected. I love a good cop/detective/investigator book and with Jessica being thrown into it personally definitely kept you interested in the plot. I had no idea this was Lisa Gray's first book until after I finished it. I definitely recommend. I look forward to more books in this series.

Thank you Netgalley for the opportunity to review!

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Lisa Gray surpassed herself with this debut crime novel. Jessica Shaw is a private investigator who must examine her own past in order to solve a murder. Her path crossed with other law enforcement who she discovers are not as transparent as perhaps they should be. Working with detective Jayson Pryce she discovers the past may not be as she first thought. What were the circumstances leading to her mother's murder? What does she not know about her father's past? Broken after her father's death she is struggling to keep afloat. While searching for work, finding missing people, she receives a photograph of a child kidnapped from Los Angeles twenty five years ago. She is stunned to discover that that child is her. So begins her search to uncover the truth.
This is an excellent debut novel from Scottish writer Lisa Gray. Hers is a name we will hear a lot more of in the years to come.

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Thank you NetGalley and Amazon Publishing UK / Thomas & Mercer for this arc.

This was a fast read for me, but then it is less than 300 pages. Initially, I found it to be a little incoherent as the chapters bounced from character to character and in between 2 different time lines 25 year apart, but yet in the same neighborhood. I thought Jessica was an intriguing character in the beginning, but not particularly likeable. As the story progressed, I found her to be less intriguing and more of a mess. It seemed like she was using her questions of her parentage as an excuse to drink and then drink some more. But then I didn't much care for most of the other characters either. The story line was interesting if contrived and I kept reading to find it's resolution.

2.5 stars rounded up

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Thin Air was a solid 3 star read for me. I liked the premise: a private investigator running from her problems comes across evidence that she is not who she thinks she is. Her search for the truth of her identity and the killer of her mother leads her to Los Angeles, and puts her directly in harms way.

I loved the characters in the story, particularly Jessica Shaw and Jason Pryce. It seems that this is the first novel in a series, which is great news as I'd love to see more from both of these characters. All in all, I think this novel is a solid first foray into crime fiction for Lisa Gray. I'm excited to see what she comes up with next.

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I can say i did finish the book there were plenty of times i thought i wasn't going to. at first i was a bit confused about the time line of the book it seamed to jump around for me. it was a grab you by the seat of your pants until the ending which that was the best couple of chapters in my opinion but don't let me sway you at all. i want to say this book took me over two weeks to finish it.

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