Dominick is prosecuting her father-figure uncle, who’s a former U.S. Attorney Curt Dominick saves Garrett from the firing squad. It starts in media res the protagonist, Mara Garrett, who has dedicated her life to searching for the remains of lost American soldiers, faces a death sentence in a North Korean courtroom. The second in Grant’s ( Concrete Evidence, 2013, etc.) series is a fast-paced suspense novel with a budding romance. Still, desire clashes with loyalty when they discover a conspiracy that threatens not only their lives but the national security of the United States.Īn anthropologist gets caught up in an international incident and must later testify against her uncle while fighting off romantic urges toward the man who rescued her, but is also her uncle’s lead prosecutor.

With betrayal around every corner, Curt and Mara have little reason to trust each other and every reason to deny the sparks between them that blaze hotter than the Hawaiian sun. Someone is after Mara, and they'll risk everything to stop her from reaching Washington DC. What starts off as a rescue mission quickly morphs into a race across the Pacific. Her only hope is Curt Dominick, the powerful, ambitious, and infuriatingly sexy US attorney prosecuting her uncle, a former vice president of the United States. When archaeologist Mara Garrett traveled to North Korea to retrieve the remains of GIs lost in combat, she never imagined she'd be arrested, convicted of spying, and sentenced to death. Body of Evidence is the second book in Grant's Evidence Series, where archaeology, politics, and war collide.Īnd she thought facing a firing squad was bad. She’s not one of my favorites, but that is more about preference than competence.In Body of Evidence, a sexy romantic political thriller, an archaeologist and a US Attorney find themselves on an explosive, globe-spanning chase full of political intrigue and legal drama. The narrator is fine, doesn’t mispronounce words, overact or jar you out of the story. If you like Rachel Grant a lot, maybe you’ll like this, but I don’t think it’s one of her better books. Those are not the behaviors of an insecure woman. She’s the sexual instigator most of the time and evidently has thigh-high boots and teddies she has ready and waiting to be pulled out for the right guy. But, with one minor incident as the exception, she never acts that way. We’re introduced to her that way rather explicitly. I would’ve liked to see that part developed a bit more, instead of smack, “can’t live without you.” Also our female protagonist/romantic lead was supposed to be insecure about her appeal as a woman. First off was how quickly our romantic leads were absorbed with each other.

This story seemed a bit more contrived than some of the others. Rachel Grant isn’t my favorite in the romantic suspense genre, but one I go to when nothing else is out from an author I like more.

Withholding Evidence by Rachel Grant