The Wrong Woman by Leanne Kale Sparks

 

Kendell Beck is an FBI agent working with missing and exploited children.  She has just caught a case with a missing five year old girl.  She finds the girl but suspects that there has been sexual abuse in her home.  

But everything is put on hold when her own roommate goes missing.  Gwen and Kendell have been best friends since college and when Gwen needs to borrow Kendell's car, she is quick to oblige.  But Gwen does not return from her restaurant and a few days later is found dead.  Kendell takes time to be with Gwen's family.

Adam Taylor of the local police catches Gwen's case.  He wonders if it is related to the cases of other missing women or if it is personal.  Gwen owns and runs a successful restaurant with her fiancée who is the chef.  Gwen wants to expand; he wants to stay small.  Some of his actions look suspicious and his alibi doesn't quite hold up.  Some of the other employees have issues as well.  Adam is attracted to Kendell but knows that this is not the time to try to do anything about it.  So he works the case hoping to catch a break and find her killer.

This is the novel in the Kendell Beck series.  Kendell is a strong woman who has faced much adversity in her own life.  She fits in with the men she works with but isn't interested in romance at all.  I listened to this book and the narrator did an excellent job.  Her pacing was quick enough that it lent suspense to the action being narrated yet pleasant for extended listening pleasure.  This book is recommended to mystery readers.