Feb 16, 2016 A.M.H. Johnson

 

Meet Olivia Smallwood (goes by Liv). She's a young girl who witnesses her best friend's abduction (the third in a series of abductions) as soon as the book opens. She's your average teen, creative, driven, and not one to be babied, even though her wealthy grandmother from Beacon Hill in Boston has just hired her a bodyguard.

Then meet Holly Glasscock (honestly, hands down my favorite character and the true moral compass of the book). She's a recent graduate who Mrs. Smallwood has just hired as her granddaughter's bodyguard. She's been aiming to become a cop like her father, and just missed the cut at her town's local PD. But that doesn't stop her from investigating the kidnapping case to protect her charge. All the while dealing with two men trying to win her affections: Myron Smallwood (Liv's uncle) and Dan Vogel (a local Boston cop running the investigation).

And lastly meet Stealth. He's a man who is clearly disturbed, with his dead brother harbored in him as a second personality. He's the one who has been running around Boston kidnapping its brightest and wealthiest teens.

These are Stealth Moves' three narrators we follow while: Olivia works with her friends and social networking to start a movement to free the kidnapped teens; Holly does her best to protect Olivia (even from herself) and learn the high society rumors/secrets of the Beacon Hill community; and Stealth works to cover his tracks and gather more stealthies (his name for his kidnapped victims) for his cause. Stealth Moves takes a new perspective of the mystery genre, while bringing it into the age of the Internet while also keeping a realistic perspective at investigations. It's a book with so many twists and turns, it will keep you guessing until the last page.