The Stolen
Vikki Petraitis
Reviewed by Helen
Senior Detective Antigone Pollard is pleased that she left Brunswick to make her home in Deception Bay a place that she spent most of her childhood, she is living on her grandmother’s farm with her dog Waffles and now with a new boss Amanda Filipovic and her partner Wozza it is summer and crime is slow, that is until a bay is kidnapped.
Antigone and Wozza throw themselves into the investigation they must find baby Ethan as fast as possible but when they discover who took the baby and there is an accident but still no baby, the press is hounding them and the mother of the baby will they find Ethan before something happens to him is he lost or has someone got him?
Antigone’s mother Dr. Jilly arrives back in Deception Bay with a family secret, Antigone has a DNA test to help with this, could she have a sibling or could she finally find out who her father is?
Then new boss Senior Sergeant Amanda Filipovic is in an accident and in hospital and the old boss Bill Wheeler is back and making life very hard for the team and causing problems with the investigation, what really happened to Amanda that night?
Vikki Petraitis has again pulled me in in another unputdownable story that had twists and turns, her leading character, Antigone fights for the woman and the way they are treated by many of the men in this town, this story takes in a lot of issues that plague the world today domestic violence, media reporting that is so bad towards woman and so much more, but the more she uncovers the more that it appears that some of this might be linked to the first case she worked on in Deception Bay, will Antigone get the answers in the next book?
I do highly recommend this one and I can’t wait for the next book, a fabulous story that will keep the reader turning the pages.
Antigone and Wozza throw themselves into the investigation they must find baby Ethan as fast as possible but when they discover who took the baby and there is an accident but still no baby, the press is hounding them and the mother of the baby will they find Ethan before something happens to him is he lost or has someone got him?
Antigone’s mother Dr. Jilly arrives back in Deception Bay with a family secret, Antigone has a DNA test to help with this, could she have a sibling or could she finally find out who her father is?
Then new boss Senior Sergeant Amanda Filipovic is in an accident and in hospital and the old boss Bill Wheeler is back and making life very hard for the team and causing problems with the investigation, what really happened to Amanda that night?
Vikki Petraitis has again pulled me in in another unputdownable story that had twists and turns, her leading character, Antigone fights for the woman and the way they are treated by many of the men in this town, this story takes in a lot of issues that plague the world today domestic violence, media reporting that is so bad towards woman and so much more, but the more she uncovers the more that it appears that some of this might be linked to the first case she worked on in Deception Bay, will Antigone get the answers in the next book?
I do highly recommend this one and I can’t wait for the next book, a fabulous story that will keep the reader turning the pages.
5 stars
September 2, 2025 by Allen & Unwin
