Breach of Trust (The Madeline Dawkins Series) by Cynthia Hamilton – Review by Roxsanne Lesieur.
Breach of Trust by Cynthia Hamilton
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Madeline Dawkins is back and this time, it is a whole new ballgame since the last time we saw her, the business is booming and with it more new cases are coming in and this time, it is poison pen letters and a very ugly divorce case which drags up a lot of memories from Madeline’s past. The first case is centred around the retirement village where her father Mack Dawkins moves a few years prior and thinking that it was something to do with her father, Madeline heads straight over to Monte Verde, but what she actually encounters is nothing to do with her father at all. Meanwhile, the lawyer next door asks Madeline for some help with a divorce case he is working on, the husband is determined to leave his soon to be ex-wife with nothing and she is terrified of him harming her more than he already has.
As the facts come in and Madeline and her team start of the preliminary stages of the investigation, there are lots of questions and not many facts, in the case of the letters, they are being targeted at the residents of the facility and contain vicious accusations and distressing elements of the past, but only some of the residents have received them, that they are aware of. Meanwhile, the sordid details of this divorce are coming in thanks to the wife wanting nothing more than removing her soon to be ex-husband from her life and living so that she doesn’t have to constantly walk on eggshells and look over he shoulder, but the more they dig, the less they like the scoundrel.
With the safety and security of both sets of vulnerable clients, Madeline knows she has to work fast on these cases before someone else is seriously hurt or compromised in such a way that would endanger both them and those around them and with the accusers becoming more vicious and borderline criminal in the case of the husband, the team have their work cut out for them, but can they breach the walls surrounding the secrets and bring into the light the necessary revelations to free the victims from a prison not of their creation, or will time run out and threats become more? This is a thrilling mystery which will hook you in and leave you wanting more as you root for the victims and speed through to find out just how big the breach of trust was and how Madeline goes about finding this out.
Reviewed by @roxsannel
