The book was given to me by NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. 
When a woman who works at the local prison goes missing, the town is in shock.  Then her body is discovered and Dr. Olivia Rockwell, who also works at the prison meets Detective Decker, "Deck".  Olivia and Deck work together, sort of, to solve the crime, as the body count rises.  
I enjoyed this story.  Olivia and Deck are good together.  They work well together, and try to hide their feelings for each other.  I look forward to the next adventure.
Thank you NetGalley, Ellery A Kane and Bookouture.  This book will be released on 10/9/20.

I just could not connect with the characters in this books. And I’m not sure why. I have a feeling it’s me. So I will definitely give the next book in the series a try.

I have mixed feelings about this book. On the one hand it was a suspenseful psychological thriller and on the other hand I found the main characters cliched as well as their love/hate relationship.

Prison psychologist Olivia Rockwell's most dangerous and volatile patient is serial killer Drake Devere. As well as being sinister and totally creepy he is very intelligent and loves to play mind games with her and the other prisoners. He's also written a book about a serial killer in prison who's able to kill women on the outside. When murders of women employed by the prison occur in the local town, Drake becomes the number one suspect, although there is no evidence that he is able to get out of the prison. 

While the plot makes for an unusual setting and suspect, I struggled to like the two main characters, Olivia and Detective Will Decker. Both have tortured pasts and trust issues which I found a bit too stereotyptical of this genre. Their love/hate relationship, where they can't stop thinking about each other but then snipe at each other when they meet, also had them acting like teenagers rather than mature adults. In fact none of the characters seemed 'normal' as they all had some sort of issue. The local cop 'JB' was particularly vile with his possessiveness of Olivia and his sexist comments that no one seemed to jump on. Likewise the prison guard in the psychology unit nicknamed Handsy Hank (for obvious reason). So overall, points for a good plot and a creepy suspect but points off for too much cliched angst in the main characters. Unlike some other readers, I also didn't mind the unusual cliff hanger ending signalling a sequel to follow up unfinished business, although my dislike of the characters means that I'm unlikely to read it.

First of all thank you so much to Netgalley, Ellery Kane, and Bookouture for my ARC of this book. What originally drew me to it was that it’s about a Psychologist and it’s in California! The book followed Olivia, a woman who moves to be close to her sister. Olivia is in charge of mental health at a prison, and women who work there start getting murdered.

Thoughts: I personally do not like thrillers that include romance so that was a drawback for me. There were a few cliches in this story and it felt immature in dialogue. Instead of focusing on the case, this story was more like a teen romance book. While I did like the premise, I couldn’t get into the story because of how cliche and overdone it was. This was a DNF for me.

Watch Her Vanish by Ellery A. Kane is the first book I have read by this author and a wonderful read. It starts with Olivia Rockwell returning to Fog Harbour as head psychologist of the Cresent Bay Prision. Her sister, Emily, also works at the prison and lives with her. The story opens with a woman, who works at the prison being murdered and her body found right as her memorial was occurring.  Head detective, Will Decker, moves to Fog Harbour, and takes over the case along with his annoying partner, JB. Tensions rise as the bodies of women who work at the prison pile up and their main suspect seems to be a man who is behind bars. As the suspect list starts to increase Olivia and Will are thrown together to work the murders. As this happens there are increasing romantic underpinnings between Olivia and Will.  The characters in this book are real, fully developed and likable except for the evil ones who are easy to hate. This novel is face-paced with some unexpected twists which made it a fun ride. The only downside was, even though I loved the story, I was disappointed by the last page and the ending. It seemed more like a set up for another book than a good ending. If it had ended a few pages earlier I would have liked it better. This opinion is mine alone. I was given this ARC by Netgalley and Ellery Kane in exchange for my honest opinion.

Great read. Unpredictable , engaging and completely one which I highly recommend. 
I absolutely cannot wait to read more by this author.

This is a good read. Olivia Rockwell is a Psychologist who  returned to Fog Harbour, California to keep an eye on her younger sister, Emily. She is in charge of the Mental Health unit at Crescent Bay State Prison. But she has secrets that she wants no one to find out. Detective Will Decker has also moved to Fog Harbour from the San Francisco Police Department, in the hope of getting his career back on track, but why did he have to leave SFPD in the first place? It seems he has secrets as well. Now women who work at the prison are being murdered, why?

The story is filled with a mix of characters some nice and some not so nice, could the Murderer be one of the inmates from the prison? things start off looking that way, but is that too obvious? How would a prisoner in a maximum security facility be able to get out to kill people in the first place? Drake Devere is in prison for murdering women, plus he has written a fiction book about a serial killer escaping and killing, could someone be setting him up?

The tension gradually ramps up as the story develops Deck working hard to catch the killer, and Olivia is also determined to find the truth. Leading to an explosive conclusion.

Will initially isn’t keen on Olivia, and it seems the feeling is mutual but gradually the walls start to break down between the two, and a different attraction begins. 

This is a good crime thriller, mystery thriller, psychological thriller, if you like any of those I would say you will enjoy this, there is some clever plotting, a good mix of characters to love and hate, a bit of romance.

I would like to thank #netgalley and #Bookouture for an eARC of this in exchange for an honest, fair and unbiased review.

Watch Her Vanish is a book of two halves. First and foremost, it’s a well-constructed thriller with strong characters. There’s a lot I liked about it. Kane is certainly a good writer as the concept is brilliantly explored and I enjoyed how the story progressed, but there were a few qualities that disrupted my engagement with it.

My main issue was with the romantic subplot. I like thrillers that have a more emotional core, but the relationship between Will and Olivia felt very immature. With the use of the Dr Smarty Pants and Mr Wise Guy nicknames for each other, which were said more times than necessary, their connection often felt childish. It almost felt like the story was set in a schoolyard rather than during a murder investigation at times.

Even during the darker revelations, Will and Olivia were daydreaming about each other rather than dealing with the more interesting topic at hand. I wanted to know about the gritty details of the case, not about how they can’t stand each other yet were secretly pining to kiss each other. It just felt out of place, so I couldn’t buy into it.

The trouble was that so much about these characters felt cliche. The schoolyard quips, the “funny” nicknames that most characters gave each other, the typical laddish banter in the police station: these conversations were just so immature that it felt like the characters were spending more time sticking their tongues out at each other instead of putting their energy into the case.

On top of that, every character had a stereotypical flaw. Most of the women had been abused either sexually or mentally, and all of the men were either perverts, murderers, a brute, or sexist. Having a dark past certainly gives characters a motive to feel or behave a certain way to relate to this case, but there wasn’t a single character who broke the mould.

JB, especially, was really unlikeable. He thought that every woman who liked him fancied him and that every woman who didn’t was on her period. His comments were constantly inappropriate, stopping talk of the investigation to joke about getting his sergeant a vibrator for Christmas. I know this is how some men still behave in an office environment–or anywhere, for that matter–but when the female sergeant doesn’t put him in his place and he isn’t called out for his disgusting attitude towards women, his outdated stereotype isn’t used with any purpose.

There are a lot of good qualities about this book and the characters all have strong personalities, but it was just their traits that didn’t sit well with me. And although the plot is a well-developed, there were many scenes that felt slightly ambiguous or inconsistent. Descriptions often felt choppy which interrupted the flow of the story for me, as I found myself having to glance back at the previous chapter a few times to see if I had missed something.

However, the final few chapters certainly deliver in a more concise and fast-paced read with a satisfactory conclusion. The final twists did come as a surprise, but there were so many other suspects hinted at whose actions weren’t explained that I was still left with some questions at the end.

There is obviously going to be a follow-up, though, so maybe some of these loose ends will get answered eventually. And who knows, I may even be tempted to give Rockwell and Decker another go now that the pigtail pulling is all out of the way.

A taut fast paced thriller in every sense of the word. Dark and oozing with suspense. Well plotted and stunningly written. Loved it!

I enjoyed this rather unsettling book. Psychologist Olivia Rockwell returned to Fog Harbour, California, two years ago to keep an eye on her much younger sister, Emily. She heads up the Mental Health Unit at the Crescent Bay State Prison (CBSP). Detective Will Decker (Deck) moved to Fog Harbour from the SFPD to reset his career. Both have skeletons in their closets. So when someone starts killing women who work at the prison these two get a bit antsy.

The first to die is Bonnie McMillan who turns up dead virtually at her own memorial service after she has been missing for a few days. She has been strangled. Then the body of Laura Ricci, the CBSP kitchen supervisor is found similarly killed. The very limited evidence points back to the prison and the rumour mill points to Drake Devere. Devere is a serial killer of five women who can nevertheless be quite charming. He has also written a fictional best seller about, unsurprisingly, a serial killer, presumably modelled upon himself. He knew both the dead women. But how can a prisoner in a maximum security facility get out there and kill people?

When yet another female prison worker and Emily’s good friend goes missing the rumour mill goes wild and the names of suspects get bandied around wildly. By this point the tension is as thick as the fog that settles over the aptly named Fog Harbour. Nobody knows who to trust. Deck is working as hard as he can but he is convinced something smells fishy in this whole set-up. Olivia is also determined to find the truth and when Deck won’t go along with her wild schemes she goes rogue.

This book gets more and more unsettling as it races towards an explosive conclusion that I didn’t see coming until it was almost upon me. It could have been a five star read but the early chapters were, not slow but a little hard to follow with information and characters thrown at you rapidly. Once that settled down and I worked what was what and who was who it surpassed my expectations with clever plotting and a diabolical plot. This will appeal to anyone who enjoys a thriller, psychological thriller or mystery story. Many thanks to Netgalley, Bookouture and Ellery Kane for my review copy. My opinions are my own.

Ellery Kane's Watch Her Vanish is the first in the Rockwell and Decker series featuring a prison psychiatrist, Olivia Rockwell, and Detective Will Decker. Women are being murdered in Fog Harbor - Olivia's home town that she reluctantly came home to - and the key suspect in the murders is Drake, one of Olivia's most dangerous patients... but he's behind bars. While in prison, Drake wrote a novel that intertwines with the murders, as well as Olivia's past with her father. And the ending!!! WOWZA!!! The author has left such a cliffhanger that I cannot wait to get my hands on the next installment in this series!

This is the first in the Rockwell and Decker series and my first novel by this author.

The name of the town “Fog Harbor” got me; it reminded me of the fictional town of Cabot Cove.
from the “Murder She Wrote” series with Jessica Fletcher.
Nope not a cozy mystery!  I am okay with that but so sad that it just did not grab me.
I so wanted to love this…Many times when I read psychological thrillers and detective stories I totally moan at the use of nasty language. So was happy with a clean story; but then so sad but I just did not love this story. Doesn’t mean it wasn’t good, it just didn’t work for me and trust me I wanted it to work!!
I am sure this novel will find appreciative. We all have such different taste in what we like to read!
I will read another novel by this author.

Want to thank NetGalley and Bookouture for this early release granted to me in exchange for an honest professional review.  Opinions expressed in this review are my own.
 Publishing Release Date scheduled for October 9, 2020

Absolutely fantastic suspense story. I couldn’t put it down once I started. I definitely can’t wait fir the next in the series to come out.

Fast paced crime thriller. Chief prison psychologist Olivia Rockwell must work with Detective Will Decker to solve a string of murders and all evidence points to an incarcerated violent patient of Dr. Rockwell's. 
While I enjoyed the book, the lead characters have the stereotypical love/hate relationship and they are both strong but damaged by their pasts. This is the first book in a series so I wasn't overly surprised by it ending in a cliffhanger. I look forward to the next book, hoping for a few less cliches and no cliffhanger.

As a reader, if an author's inability to reel me in to the story from the get-go, I mark it down as a failure.

This novel was uninspiring, dull, and mediocre at best. There wasn't much to say about the characters. No one stood out and the romance aspect between Olivia and Will—I didn't buy it. I wasn't able to see the connection and would have thought they would have worked better as partners than romantic interests.

To add on to that, let's talk about the plot. It just wasn't interesting enough to keep me intrigued and way too easy to determine the person behind the gruesome murders hence the skimming. I'm almost too ashamed to admit how much skimming there was. The storyline was drawn out and quite boring, and it just wasn't a decent whodunnit mystery thriller to me. It's hard to put it into words but there was that something something lacking that could've made this an exponential read.

Sadly with the lack of positives going on with this novel, I am not driven enough to continue with the series.

The writing in itself is OK, but none of the characters are "normal". They all have some strange background, and a lot of stupid actions are taken in order to make this plot. Not my kind of book.

I would like to thank Netgalley and Bookouture for an advance copy of Watch Her Vanish, the first novel to feature psychologist Olivia Rockwell and Detective Will Decker, set in Fog Harbour, California.

Olivia is working as a psychologist in the local prison, Crescent City, when one of her workmates disappears. It’s not long before her body is discovered, garrotted with her clothes in disarray. She’s only the first victim and Deck and his partner JB realise they’re are hunting a serial killer and the prime suspect is an inmate.

Watch Her Vanish is very much a mixed bag with some good bits and some inexplicable bits. It is mostly narrated from Olivia and Deck’s points of view, with tension added by the victims’ final minutes before they are stopped by the killer. The killer’s identity is not revealed until the denouement but it’s not too hard to guess although the motive is more elusive. This latter isn’t particularly original but it has some unusual touches.

I found the actual plot quite compelling as there is a lot going on. The victims may or may not be as innocent as they initially seem and there are hints of gang activity and smuggling. Unfortunately these threads are picked up and put down throughout the novel with no real forward momentum and no resolution. There are further complications to this scenario but I don’t want to add spoilers. I found it all incredibly frustrating but this and the cliffhanger ending suggest a roadmap for the sequel. Some readers may like this approach but I know I don’t because I’ll have forgotten most of this book by the time I get round to reading the next one, if I do.

I’m not really sure what to say about the characters. I have no understanding of Olivia’s thought processes and actions. For an educated woman with a doctorate in psychology her decision making is poor and impulsive. I could list various examples but why bother? Deck is a strong manly man, masking his emotions and past. You get the picture.

Watch Her Vanish is interesting in some ways, clichéd in others and disjointed in its outcome.

Never read an Ellery A. Kane Book I didn't like, but this book is one of the Best. I read to enjoy, I'm not the greatest detective (OK/Fair), but this one I didn't see coming.  This is one you don't want to put down and I have to say I didn't, who needs a clean house. The characters are interesting, all with their own agenda.  Olivia and Will do make an interesting not a couple/couple. Grab the book and grab a quiet corner, ENJOY!

Watch her Vanish is a cant miss mystery in Ellery A. Kane new series Rockwell and Decker.
The author creates a small town that reader will be able to connect with as well the the troubles Criminal Psychologist Olivia Rockwell comes across she she is desperately trying to find her sister.
While Watch Her Vanish is a "Who Don it" Instead of using a clue like format they author uses the different characters who work alone until they are unable to more forward.
Readers might figure out quickly the connections and why the person is murdering the women. Yet its the story and not the easily figured out murder that will keep readers connected. 
Rocker and Decker series is the start of a new mystery series that readers can not miss out on.
Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for the advance copy of Elery A Kane Watch her Vanish.

i loved this crime thriller and had  a hard time putting it down. instantly pulled me in and i couldn't wait to find out what happened. highly reccomend