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Face of Betrayal (Triple Threat Series #1) | 
 enlarge | Authors: Lis Wiehl, April Henry
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Category: eBooks
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Rating:  189 reviews
Sales Rank: 825
Format: Kindle Book
Media: Kindle Edition
Pages: 320
Number Of Items: 1
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
ASIN: B0024NLHSA
Publication Date: April 7, 2009
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Product Description
While home on Christmas break, a seventeen-year-old Senate page takes her dog out for a walk and never returns. Reporter Cassidy Shaw is the first to break the story. The resulting media firestorm quickly ensnares Federal Prosecutor Allison Pierce and FBI Special Agent Nicole Hedges. These three unique women, life-long friends, call themselves The Triple Threat--a nickname derived from both their favorite dessert and their uncanny ability to crack cases using their three positions of power. At first, the authorities think Katie might have been kidnapped or run away, but those theories shatter when Nicole uncovers Katie's blog. Posts reveal a girl troubled by a mysterious relationship with an older man . . . possibly a U.S. Senator. There are many faces of betrayal, but they must find one face in a crowd of growing suspects before they become the next victims.
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 For women only August 20, 2010
Judge21
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Men beware: This novel is about women for women. Not that there's anything wrong with that. I should think that Lee Child's Jack Reacher series is much more popular among male readers. Many authors target a single sex demograhic: Janet Evanovich has made a fortune on her Stephanie Plum novels but I doubt many men are avid readers.
But most women, too, will find this Triple Threat novel a clunker. It plods along until finally settling on a likely villain. Readers are given no insight into the mind of the killer, only a blurted sentence of dialogue. Throughout the book, time and again, the female trio of detective, journalist and prosecutor jump to false conclusions on scant evidence, only to have the case solved (not cracked, solved!) by a single, spontanous slip of the tongue by the killer! The law is mistated as well. At one point, the team chooses not to seek an arrest warrant from a judge, preferring to wait until an indictment can be obtained from a grand jury. Why? Because the burden of proof for a judge would be "beyond a reasonable doubt!" This is aburd. Probable cause is needed for an arrest warrant, hardly the same burden needed for a conviction. As it turns out, justice was served: they had the wrong guy anyway because our heroines relyed on intuition rather than police-work to find the killer. I suggest the author bone up on this genre by reading a Harry Bosch novel. Michael Connelly manages to appeal to both sexes, too.
 it's ok August 20, 2010
isciberras
i got this book for free, was not hard to figure out who d killer was. i like the characters and will read the next books in the series
 Written by a juvenile August 18, 2010
Menno R. Speyer (Mont-Tremblant, Canada)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
The only reason I read the book is because it was free. This was a terribly written book by an author that has absolutely no concept of how people living in the real world speak and act towards each other. There appears to have been little if any research done before this book was written. That people such as a district attorney, an FBI agent and a television reporter share information the way it was portrayed in the book is unrealistic. This book also seems to be a knock off from the Womens Murder Club or something along those lines by Patterson which is also quite poorly written.
Very Disappointed August 16, 2010
Anna Hillis
I downloaded Face of Betrayal on Kindle for PC while waiting for my new Graphite Kindle to arrive. I've seen Lis Wiehl on Fox and couldn't wait to read her book. I was very disappointed in that it read like a recap of the Nancy Grace show. Maybe I was expecting too much, but the book progressed too slowly, and I guessed the ending way too early.
 worth the read August 5, 2010
Jessss (Mountain)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Katie Converse, a Senate Page, has come home from Christmas. She left a young girl striving to reach her dreams. She came home changed. Out walking the dog she meets someone. Now cut to Cassidy, Allison, and Nicole. Three unlikely friends who deal with crime in three different ways. They make a team they call the Triple Threat Club with Nicole working for the FBI, Allison as an attorney, and Cassidy as a News Anchor. Together they can help each other solve a terrible kidnapping. A senator could be to blame or maybe a homeless man? There are so many twists and turns you won't want to put this down.
In this story, there is so much information. Looking back now, I don't know how I didn't get confused reading about everyone involved. It's unique to see how well written this story is. You get to know the Converse family, Allison and her struggles and many jobs, Cassidy and her job and relationships, Nicole with her work and daughter, a Senator and his bad behavior, and many small teens stories too. How they all connect together to help formulate the kidnapping and murder of a 17 year old girl is skillful. I didn't want to put it down and liked for the most part how it tied up. The only thing I didn't like was that in the last couple of chapters, virtually everything got fixed with a happily ever after. I know it's not techincally a happily ever after, but it just seemed to tie up so easily and quickly in comparison to the rate the rest of the story went. Still, totally worth the read.
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