If you are feeling emotional maybe wait to read this, either that or have a huge box of tissues at the ready! However tissues will be needed regardless!

This book is the first in a new series, The Sacramento Series, and it introduces some new faces as well as bringing back some old favourites. Special Agent Gideon Reynolds will soon be a fan favourite and he has all the hallmarks of a Karen Rose perfect male specimen! Tall, body of a greek adonis, brooding and a genuine good guy. A man with a dark past, one that is about to be brought back to the surface connecting him to an ongoing case with a serial killer.

Daisy Dawson is a character that was touched upon in earlier books, the daughter of Frederick Dawson, who moved his family into isolation to protect them from their stepmother’s ex PI Clay Maynard.

Now she takes centre stage and is another trademark protagonist, a feisty female, carrying her own inner demons and a pet service dog, Brutus. With a name like that you expect a big slobbering Rottweiler or some other large scary dog, but no, this one spends its days in her handbag! Other that Gideon I think she, (yes the dogs also a girl!) is one of my favourite characters!

Gideon and Daisy’s paths cross as Daisy escapes an abduction by a man they soon realise has form, not only does he abduct women, he tortures and kills them. Working together they follow the killers trail to the peril of them both on a personal level and costs them both dearly.

At times I couldn’t escape the feeling of deja vu but I guess having read all of her previous 23 books that is to be expected and just like her previous books this one is just as good as the others. If you have read her previous work then you won’t be disappointed with Say You’re Sorry and if this is your first Karen Rose book then it will have you adding her back catalogue to your shopping basket.

You don’t need to have read any of them to go straight into this one, there is enough back story on Daisy and her family for you to follow their story but if you want to know more about Frederick Dawson head for MONSTER IN THE CLOSET.

A serial killer that will chill you to the bone and a special agent to make you swoon!

For fans old and new, another fantastic read by the queen of romantic suspense.

Say you’re Sorry will be published on 12 Feb 2019 in the US and UK readers will have to wait a few extra days until 14 Feb!

A big thank you to author Karen Rose, publishers Headline and NetGalley for my digital copy of this book in exchange for an honest and independent review.

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WOW so much going on in this book, it was mind spinning, I loved it!

When Daisy Dawson fends off her attacker, she takes evidence with her in the form of a locket, Special Agent Gideon Reynolds is called in but on a personal note, he recognizes the design on the locket which makes him face awful memories about his past which he escaped from just about with his life at the age of 13! What concerns the Detectives on the case is that her perpetrator said "you'll say you're sorry just like the others" leading them to believe there are more victims to be found.

Daisy having been isolated for most of her teenage years teams up with Gideon, they seem to have a special bond and find themselves quite comfortable with each other very soon, Gideon is acting as her bodyguard in case the attacker tries again! Gideon and Daisy become quite close very quickly in the biblical sense if you know what I mean, considering it was a serial killer mystery, there were plenty of fairly descriptive sex scenes also!

Will Gideon ever find Eden, the cult he grew up in to free the remaining people from the mental and physical abuse, where they married their 12 year old girls off to the men of the community!!!

Will they find the serial killer if that is what they are hunting? Will they all survive to tell the tale? Ha ha as if i'm going to enlighten you, you'll just have to read it to find out.... a very complex book with so many sick and twisted scenarios being dealt with, you will be drawn in from the getgo... highly recommending it to my friends & family. One note, I would absolutely love to see this book made into a movie, it had all the traits/characters/mystery for a box office hit!

Many thanks to Netgalley and Headline for an advanced copy in exchange for my honest opinion.

Another fabulous story ,a new series but with links to others. Fast paced,exciting and heart breaking ,lots of stories in one. Can't wait for the next one.