I stepped into the Falcon's End mystery series with book three, The Fifteenth Letter, and I wish I'd found the police duo of Amber Carfi and Warren Jensen long ago. Amber Carfi can be as unorthodox as Grace Anakarko on the hit television series Saving Grace, but Amber doesn't stray too far from the straight and narrow. She's had to work doubly hard to achieve the rank she has because she's the daughter of a convict. Fifteen years before, her father was convicted of armed robbery and shooting his partner while committing the crime. Amber knows what he did, but has always visited him in prison and even testified at all of his parole hearings. When her father is released on parole, she thinks it will be a warm reunion with the father who used to devise elaborate codes and puzzles with her. What she doesn't realize is that her father has left some unfinished business that puts not only his life and her own in danger but that of her partner Warren Jenson as well, a partner who is becoming more than just someone to share a stake-out with.

The writing team of Karen Wiesner and Chris Spindler have crafted a thrilling page-turner with realistic characters I really liked! Amber and Warren are both tough and hold back their emotions so sometimes I just wanted to scream at them to talk to each other. But that was just the kind of tension Wiesner and Spindler wanted to create and it really cranks up the sizzle. I can't wait to catch up with Amber and Warren in their next book Romantic Notions.