by Darlene L. Turner

Explosive Christmas Showdown is one of those books that starts (literally) with a bang. Because this is a Darlene Turner novel, the story then leaves you a little bit breathless until the bad guy is identified, caught and stopped. Seriously. The pages flew by.

Analyst Olive Wells is forced to swallow her feelings and work alongside her ex-fiancé, K9 handler Zac Turner to stop a bomber, disguising his explosives as Christmas gifts. The attacker seems to be able to bypass all security and get to the whole team whenever he wants.

To make things worse, Zac’s past, and an enormous secret he’d buried catches up with him, leaving his world in tatters. Can he ever recover his life?

Olive tries to focus on keeping her foster daughter safe as the bomber ramps up his campaign, but with time running out, things turn desperate.

I enjoy the extremely fast pace of Darlene L Turner books. They’re quick reads, partly because they’re all action, and partly because she’d an expert at keeping the identity of the villain hidden. So I have to read quickly to appease my curiosity. This book also included a lot of deep relational tension and is a win for anyone who enjoys romantic suspense.

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