" If one of the people in this night's story had turned left instead of right at some point in time, their paths might never have crossed, and KJ and Genevieve Gauthier would be home, asleep, and in safe beds."Ain't that the almighty truth? When we are at the receiving end of someone else's decisions or we find ourselves in the headlights of an on-coming disaster in the making. It's not always going to play out right.Tami Hoag has dipped back into her literary vault and resurrected two outstandi...

*** 3.5 - 4 stars ***Publication date: December 31, 2018.This is book #2 in the Broussard and Fourcade series by Tami Hoag. This was my first read by Tami Hoag and I felt this read well as a standalone. Nick Fourcade and Annie Broussard are married and detectives working in Louisiana. Genevieve Gauthier is found in the middle of the night trying to find help as her seven year old son was murdered by an intruder in their home. Overall, the mystery was impossible to figure out as the story was ver...

I have read Tami Hoag's work for many years and always enjoyed them. Her latest...The Boy was no exception. This author has the ability to take the reader out of their favorite armchair and place them right into the story. Her two lead characters of Nick and Annie are very strong and extremely likable as well as excellent at their careers as detectives. It was a real "whodoneit" but I was a little disappointed...not because it was a let down but because I also liked that person. Great book...won...

This is my first Tami Hoag book, loaned to me by one of my daughters, a diehard fan of this author. Let's see what made this mystery such an appealing read for me:1. strong three-dimensional characters! Whether likable or not, I could see right into their souls;2. the plot moved along at an acceptable pace, building to a high-intensity climax with a satisfying ending;3. whether taking place at a crime scene, a Grade 2 classroom or a dysfunctional family's home, I felt that I was right in the mid...

I loved this book. It was so good. Tami Hoag is a hit or miss with me and this one was a big hit. It was a very unpredictable read. So many different suspects and never guessed the killer.Review soon!

Tami Hoag has been a favorite author of mine for so long. Her mystery thrillers are always fast paced, engaging, and captivating and The Boy is no different. Detective Nick Fourcade is called in to the devastating crime scene where a young boy was murdered, where his mother narrowly escapes from the same fate. Det. Fourcade, a father of a young boy, takes this murder personally and makes it his personal mission to find the killer.Meanwhile, Detective Annie Broussard (Nick's wife), discovers that...

A seven-year-old boy is brutally murdered, while his mother escapes injured and bloodied. As disturbing and puzzling facts come to light it’s up to Detectives Nick Fourcade and Annie Broussard sort them out, find the killer and bring him to justice. Solving the case is made more difficult by the new sheriff of Partout Parish who loves to make a show for the press all the while butting in and trying to control investigative procedure. I first met Nick in Annie in A Thin Dark Line published back i...

It's been a long while since I have read a Tami Hoag thriller, and this one is as good as the ones I remember. Set in Louisiana's swampy bayou country, the volatile Detective Sergeant Nick Fourcade is a man with a temper he can barely control, married to Detective Annie Broussard, a woman who has never come to terms with her traumatic family history, both based at the Partout Parish Sheriff's Office. They get a call in the middle of the night that no law enforcement officer wants, a young 7 year...

There wasn’t any part of this story that wasn’t monstrous. This Southerm style thriller starts off with a flash of a bloodied young woman fleeing her home in the swamplands of Louisiana. She’s left her young son behind in the house off an isolated road after a surprise home attack. It’s storming, humid, heavy rain falling, dark as night, she is not in her right mind as she’s running for help. She also is not sure if her young son is dead or alive or exactly what has happened. Well, that beginnin...

The Boy, a mystery/suspense novel, is the second in the Broussard and Fourcade series by author Tami Hoag. As a rule, I tend to shy away from books that are part of a same-character series, as I always feel a step behind if I pick up in the middle. Here, however, Hoag has written a haunting tale that stands alone—a harrowing story of neglected children, sexual and domestic abuse, misuse of power, and murder.There is, first and foremost, a trigger here that needs to be reckoned with before the re...

The Boy by Tami Hoag is a 2018 Dutton publication. Wow! This is one of Hoag’s best and I’ve read many of her books over the years!!When a young single mother is the victim of a late night home invasion which leaves her hospitalized, and her young son dead, Broussard and Fourcade must tiptoe through the murky waters of law enforcement politics and worrisome circumstantial evidence to find the truth. The hot and steamy Louisiana humidity is almost palpable as the restless tension between the marri...

Advanced Reader Copy (ARC) provided by the Author and Publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an fair and honest review.I can hardly wait! I love a good bayou mystery and Tami Hoag is really good at making the essence of that area come alive. The first Broussard and Fourcade book was years ago and I loved it. Her Doucet Series is one of my favorites, romance with a great mystery, just wonderful. Broussard and Fourcade Series, book one at least, is more mystery, but doesn't skimp on the romance.

Wow, this is one surprising good crime mystery. I love the chemistry between the two main characters husband and wife detective of Cajun country. The audio was superb with accent and French cajun swearing by the husband. LOVED IT! The main plot is gloomy and some might say full of depressing lives but the way it's written it was so hard to put down. It was not graphic nor gory. The setting was beautiful, and the story was suspenseful.After waiting since 2017 for this book (I don't even know why

3.5 starsA panic-stricken woman runs in the dead of night, battered and bloodied, desperate to find help. . .The Boy is the second book in the Brousssard and Fourcade series but worked very well as a stand-alone novel for me. Nick Fourcade and his wife, Annie Broussard are both detectives working in the Cajun town of Bayou Breaux, Louisiana. One night, Nick is called to a bloody crime scene which left a seven-year-old boy dead and his mother hospitalized. There is nothing at the crime scene whic...

Detectives Nick Fourcade and Annie Broussard are married and become involved in the murder of young 7 year old KJ Gauthier, who has been viciously stabbed to death. His mother Genevieve is somewhat of an enigma, as various stories emerge about her past. Nick is also dealing with a new boss, Kelvin Dutrow, who he doesn't get along with. Things only get messier for Nick, who already has an unsolved sexual assault on an autistic teenager on his hands, and then he's hit with the disappearance of the...

Awesome read!!! Back to the bayou with Nick fourcade and toniette! I love when authors revisit great characters from past books,we first met Nick and toniette in A Thin Dark Line. In this new book husband and wife are called in the middle of the night to a murder of a little boy and his mother who was seriously hurt and fighting for her life in the hospital. This was a tale full of many secrets and as many suspects too! Hoag is a excellent storyteller and knows how to keep you guessing til the v...

The Boy by Tami Hoag was an exciting ride. From the first page I was thrown into a mystery so dark and related to the unthinkable brutal death of an innocent child. Who would do such a thing?The first thing that impressed me was the setting. French Cajun has always been of interest to me and now I was introduced and immersed into this exclusive group and community. The French throughout was educational and added an authenticity.The plot was believable and true to life. The pace of the novel was

Hoag revisits the sleepy town of Bayou Breaux in Louisiana with her second offering in the Nick Fourcade-Annie Broussard detective series. Narrator Hillary Huber does an excellent job immersing the reader in the region’s rich Louisiana accents—even including a smattering of pure French Patois. Hoag opens her latest novel with a wounded woman stumbling down the street seeking help. Her 7-year-old child is at home dead from knife wounds. Genevieve Gauthier’s account of what happened is confused an...

The 2-star rating is more about how little I personally appreciated this book then the reflection on its writing or its storytelling. Honestly, this was a downer story, making me feel gloomy all through the book. What it boils down to is young teenagers being bullied and being misunderstood to the point where they do the unthinkable. Actually, it's more generations of those lost souls coming together in one place. Personally, I had so hoped for a more police procedural story, yep, give me Kovak

I credit Tami Hoag with getting my interested in the romance genre. Her romantic suspense novels got me into the genre during high school, and A Thin Dark Line was one of my favourites. I was completely surprised to see the author return to these characters so long after the first book, but obviously I was going to read the book. It was a treat to return to characters and peak into what happened after the events in the first book, and for me, those moments were certainly the highlight of The Boy...