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Shark Santoyo Crime Series: Books 1-3 by Bethany Maines

This trilogy keeps you moving and trying to decide which characters you should be trusting as each day begins anew. I recommend reading all three books in order to really understand the characters and the plots as much as possible. As you learn about the different levels of characters that we have in the book I loved the high school connection that ended up connecting the mafia groups to each other in order to solve each "case" and keep the characters out of trouble. The age difference is one thing that still causes me pause as we see this manifest in several different ways. Peri and Shark together will leave you cheering for the two of them to make it out of all the trouble--deep down, the whys behind their actions are crucial to my movement as a reader through the book. Solid crime story with lots of actions that keep you guessing--must read!

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