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The novel was ok. It is a prequel to the other books in a series about Ingrid Skyberg of the FBI. It is a very quick read so great for a flight.

Nice introduction to the series. I didn't like the banter between Ingrid and Nick - it felt very forced. And she supposedly has a fiance that she can't even remember - I mean I get not being happy in your relationship but if your partner goes so far as to propose you should probably not describe yourself as single. I just didn't really like Ingrid but she seemed competent enough. The case was straightforwards if not very exciting. But it was a fast and likable enough. 2.5 stars.

Absorbing
I liked the amount of detail put into the main character and the situations she encountered. I was captured and never bored. The writing, plot and pace were good.

I liked the pace and the plot. The characters were detailed enough to keep me interested, but not too detailed, so I read without wasting energy on them. This was good entertainment.½

Sorry a recommendation from Amazon that really didn't work for me. Abandoned after the first couple of chapters.

The novel was ok. It is a prequel to the other books in a series about Ingrid Skyberg of the FBI. It is a very quick read so great for a flight.

This short novella is well written. The story is energetic. The characters are superficial but serve the purpose for an entertaining light read.

A violent ride into what's left of a mans soul. Just the right amount of violence and fear to make the tale ring true. Thumbs up for hudson's story

Run Girl by British writer Eva Hudson is the first of five novels in the Ingrid Skyberg FBI thriller series. It's really a novella at only 174 pages but I wanted to read it as an introduction to the complete set which I already own. When the story starts we meet the Secretary of State, Jayne Whitticker, who is on her way to broker a peace deal. Her spoiled granddaughter runs away from her parents and joins Jayne, promising to be good. You guessed it......she sneaks away as soon as she can.

Meanwhile, we meet Ingrid Skyberg, an FBI Special agent currently teaching a training class in London. She's asked to help the American Embassy find the missing teenager before the Secretary knows she's disappeared. Ingrid joins with Nicholas Angelis, a private security agent hired by the US embassy, and they race around London on a Ducati motorcycle trying to catch the girl.

It wasn't the most sophisticated story I've read but was a nice introduction to Ingrid and how she ends up in London. It would be a great plane ride book.

Firstly you need to know that this is a novella, seeking to lay the background to FBI Agent Ingrid Skyberg becoming stationed in London. She arrives as part of an FBI Training Group leading a course at New Scotland Yard and ends up seeking the errant grand-daughter of the US Secretary of State.
I have to say that I thoroughly enjoyed this short story. The prose used is more than acceptable, adding to the development of the story. It moves along at a good pace, shows the qualities of Ingrid and her deductive skills very well, developing this through the inventive skills of the grand-daughter in laying a red herring strewn path to avoid her discovery. The fact that Skyberg manages to deduce what the girl is actually up to makes for an interesting start to the series, so my lower score only reflects that it is a novella. I will be making an effort to follow her development in the next in the series.

When Caroline, a civil servant in the Department of Education, finds the minister dead in his office it starts her on a quest to find the truth. The official verdict is suicide which is confirmed by the note left but Caroline isn't convinced.

She manages to get a reporter interested and together they attempt to uncover what really is happening in the Academies division. Caroline's home life is disintegrating around her and at times her worlds collide.

I really enjoyed this book which is very topical with the current controversy over Academies so reads as very believable in places. I really liked the character of her mother who at every chance is taking a very public stance.

There were also a few side issues which didn't always add to the story and the problems with her teenage son didn't really fit in well.

On the whole though a well written story which keeps you guessing right to the end and makes you think whether you really ever know someone else.

This was the fourth book I have read in this series. The central character, Ingrid Skyberg, is someone I enjoy reading about. She is an FBI agent working in London, and the previous books were very good mysteries. I feel in this one we have quite a departure from previous books in the series, as Ingrid is in Sweden and not on FBI business, in fact if they found out what Ingrid was doing not only would she be sacked but she would be doing jail time. For me this just lost the central tenet that the books are about. Don't get me wrong this was still a good book and I enjoyed reading it, but just not as much as with previous books in the series. This book was very contemporary dealing with the crisis in Syria and the potential for terrorism this is leading to, perhaps for this reason it wasn't escapist enough, which is a central reason a lot of people read for. In this book because Ingrid was going rogue, there was a lack of characterisation and interaction with some characters we met in previous books. As a result of this I only gave the book 3.5 stars, but I would still encourage you to read because as I say it was an enjoyable read. I will be conitinuing this series as I do enjoy the character. If you have not read the others in the series this holds up very well as a standalone.

I was given a free copy if the book for a fair and honest review.½

An enjoyable read which I managed to pick up free from Amazon. Enjoyed the main character, an FBI agent based at the U.S. Embassy in London. A good story with different layers and sub stories. Would read the author again. The book did provide quite a good twist. After some considered thought gave it four stars although for lot of book would have only given it 3 or 3.5 stars. Could have been a touch more developed at the end.

Never underestimate an 18 year old girl
Jayne Whitticker, Secretary of State, is about to board a special plane bound across the Atlantic on a highly sensitive mission. As the minutes tick by an imminent storm is brewing when suddenly she and her driver are stopped from boarding by an unexpected security breach. At the last possible moment, she finds herself with her teenage granddaughter and no time to change her flight plans but to take Rachel with her, possibly risking Jayne's entire career. As in most overwhelming teenage emergencies, there are options to what she is wanting, but time has run out, more than one storm is brewing, weatherwise and personal, and as Secretary of State, Jayne has no option. Talk about emotional blackmail! She must carry on with her mission negotiating a peace deal between three warring African nations and will have to take the girl with her to Strasbourg and hire a private security guard to chaperone Rachel and keep her out of trouble.This incident could go down badly for Jayne's future if Rachel creates any waves.

Switch now to London where a training session is going on by the FBI's Violent Crimes Against Children program in the New Scotland Yard. Enter Ingrid Skyberg who has become a last minute fill-in. She has just arrived in London for this session. With high profile replacements and heads of departments scattered around Europe any number of things could go wrong, and they do. Partnerships are split up between strangers when there is a missing person search call-out. This is a high-level search that skips across countries. Ingrid and her wild-card partner must overcome differences and work together as FBI Agent and private International Security agent from the UK. The chase is on and it is not an easy one. This missing person always seems to be a few steps ahead. This was a unique book, I found it kept my interest and was both amusing and incredulous. A suspenseful chase full of red herrings. I enjoyed it as an introduction the series

This was a bookbub freebie, I feel a little bad giving only 3 stars for book I did not pay for.
It may still be free and if not, sometimes the same books get the Promo Bookbub/Freebie treatment again.

Bookbub for recommendations
Not very solid first book in a series, but I will surely read the second to see how the heroine and the series develops.
A female FBI-Agent posted in the US-Embassy in London.
Interesting and I like the US-UK comparisons.
Romance is only hinted at, a fiancé in the US with a decision still open at the end of the book, wether to break-up and stay in the UK, with a possible love-interest in a cop, also not solved or even clear at the end of the book. That was ok with me, I do not like too much romance, but leaving all this unsolved for the next book to hopefully go one way or the other? Feels wrong.

There are two cases, one lesser handled totally unprofessional and not solved, the other one solved with a totally unsatisfying action from Ingrid.
Thrown in to the mix are an interesting female cop and a female reporter with whom she works a solution I really do not like, while the female cop only suspects what happened, she does nothing to put it right. While this is also the case with other cops in other books and sometimes even in RL, it is nothing I can accept, or understand. And for once I would like to read more books with agents playing it by the book (Twin Peaks Dale Cooper comes to mind).

Also the baddie in this book was obvious to me after a third of the book or earlier, in the beginning there are a few scenes to point in a different direction, but it just got too much.
This could have been a solid 4 star book with a solution by the FBI-playbook or both cases connected through a twist, or more twists, both cases solved or whatever.

This is comparable to the Maeve Kerrigan-Books by Jane Casey, and there it is now obvious to me, where this book fails for me:
while the amount of romance (and sex) is a little higher in the Casey-Books, Maeve plays by the rules, and also has partner some (most) of the time.
While I like Ingrid acting alone, I do not think the FBI (or every other agency) would let an agent act alone most of the time.
Given the high risks she takes, and her being just lucky to escape a few accidents, she is more like a female Rambo.

As it is, without reading the next book I cannot safely recommend this. Probably this review will get changed if and when I read the next book in the series.

Nice, fast read. Not too much romance.
The case was very straightforward, no real twists or surprises. A should-have-been twist with the last killing was too obvious to surprise.
Ingrid also acts again most times alone, just asking other people to supply information, not very realistic (as in the first book).
For a short read recommended, also the romance goes in a direction I really like, but also I thought this would be the direction even in the first book.
For a break between longer and better books recommended.

Novella, rather well done, and so far the best one in the series. Ingrid is not really acting alone and that does a lot for me to make this more realistic.
Her finance requires a mere mention, setting the stage to the next (first) book, this being the prequel to the series.
As one of my computers (the main client) broke down, it took me longer than normal to read it. It is a good novella, and not too short.
Recommended, and I will read the next book in the series (#3) soon.

The series gets better! So 4 stars it is, also highly recommended.
A few nice twists, some I guessed, but the main one was a surprise. And a conclusion to a slower background story.
This review is short as I have computer problems and as a former helpdesk-professional I am the person to solve these problems. Currently taking a break from using computers for far too much (and far too long, since late 1984).

Barely 3 stars, more family drama then suspense thriller, the main story could have fit in a 100 pages or less and would have read better.
Too much family. No sex, no (or not much) romance.
The characters where real, however and I really liked the main character (which for me is Caroline), but am a bit ambivalent about Angela Tate, who sometimes comes across as a not very likable unscrupulous reporter.
Bought this because I liked the Skyberg/FBI Embassy-Books, where Angela Tate pops up in a supporting role.
Not recommended, but as I bought the cheap edition (when the price was low) with two other Angela Tate books, maybe the others are better.

Got this cheap as an edition with the other 2 Women Sleuths book.
No Angela Tate here, which is just as well.
Too long, the ending with a nice conclusion to nearly all story-lines, was good, which saved it from getting 1 star.
Not all endings will satisfy, but are realistic and some things open to interpretation.
The main characters where sometimes annoying but well developed and interesting, the growing up of a serial-killer was very good and may warrant for some a third star, but the seniors where over the top for me, and while believable individually, altogether too much and some too annoying. Some points where too drawn out or repeated.
No recommended, if the third book is not really better (I fear not), these 3 books together are not worthy of Eva Hudson (the Skyberg books are better).
This book gets a rare warning from me, do not waste any money on it (the cheap 0.99 Eur I paid for all three books where even too much, and that was an info from the Hudson-Mailing-List, me thinking what could go wrong...).
Barely 2 stars, do not read, waste of time.

A compelling read, full of twists and turns. I enjoyed trying to unravel the plot, but flagged a bit in the middle, as it was a little bit heavy going. There is just so much crammed in.

I did find it odd that one of the main characters is never given his own voice. But just talked about by the other characters. I like to get a better sense of the bad guys.

Brutal, well-written short story about a London cab driver dealing with a personal trauma, complicated by a couple of assailants. Thank goodness it was short--I couldn't have taken too much more of the pain.½