48 Hours to Kill: A Thriller

48 Hours to Kill is a book about a man named Ethan who finds himself in jail after a series of unfortunate events that have to do with working at a strip club. While in jail, Ethan finds out that his little sister Abby has died and is released on furlough to attend her funeral. What he realizes when he is released is that her body was never found. In fact, their mother was the one who allowed the FBI to declare Abby dead after she had been missing. Ethan is furious and wants to get to the bottom of what happened to Abby. He has forty-eight hours to do this before he has to turn himself back in. In those forty-eight hours, he pairs up with Abby’s best friend, Whitney, and finds out that both girls had become strippers and worked for his ex-boss Shark.

This book’s storyline is fantastically written with tons of action and twists and turns. All of the characters are described vividly and Reno sounds as horrible and desolate as it is in real life. There is some violence and gore in the book but it’s not overdone and is necessary to the tense storyline. Recommended for fans of Baldacci and Coben.