A Killer Motive: A Novel

Six years ago, Stella’s brother, Max, disappeared from a beach party. She’s never given up looking for him and decided to help others as well by starting her true crime podcast, A Killer Motive. She’s been able to help other families, but not her own. While being interviewed on a radio show, she makes the statement that she would bring the abductor to justice if she just had one clue. That statement leads to a series of events that has Stella playing a very dangerous game with a killer with life and death stakes. But Stella will do whatever it takes for just the possibility of bringing her brother home. ||If you enjoy McKinnon’s other books or if you enjoy serial killer murder mysteries, then this book is for you. Stella was hard to like until the epilogue and the identity of the killer was a bit hard to swallow based on the victimology, but I understand what the author was trying to do. Overall, it was an entertaining read with a deadly game of cat and mouse.