Tami Hoag has been a favorite author of mine for so long. Her mystery thrillers are always fast paced, engaging, and captivating and The Boy is no different. Detective Nick Fourcade is called in to the devastating crime scene where a young boy was murdered, where his mother narrowly escapes from the same fate. Det. Fourcade, a father of a young boy, takes this murder personally and makes it his personal mission to find the killer.
Meanwhile, Detective Annie Broussard (Nick's wife), discovers that the babysitter of the young murdered boy is missing. Ultimately, the quiet southern town assumes their children are under siege. The pressure to close the case is at an all time high and takes some strange, chilling turns.
The Boy is the second installment in the Nick Fourcade and Annie Broussard series but can be read as a standalone. There's enough character development and background story for readers to keep up and become well acquainted with Nick's anger, and Annie's gentility. They are the perfect yin to each other's yang. The fact that this current murder hits home to them emotionally and personally, feeds a need to close the case like none other.
What Hoag does well here, as well in her other novels, is paint vivid characters with no shortage of possible suspects. Many of the characters struggle with identity and appearances. There's nothing more important to these characters than what appears to be, instead of what really is. There's the housewife that sacrifices her son for love, the single mother, who sacrifices her body for stability.
Ultimately, Tami Hoag's The Boy is quite the read. I enjoyed it very much. There's no surprise here that Hoag did it again. I highly recommend Hoag's novels, including this one. ****
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