The Janes
2020 • 353 pages
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Average rating4.3
The page-turning follow-up to acclaimed thriller Two Girls Down features the tenacious PI Alice Vega and her electric partnership with Max Caplan, as they follow a shocking murder investigation to it’s even more shocking conclusion. On the outskirts of San Diego, the bodies of two young women are discovered. They have no names, no IDs, but one of the Jane Does holds a note bearing the name, “Alice Vega.” The police and FBI reach out to Vega, a private investigator known for finding the missing. Fearing the possibility of a human trafficking ring, Vega enlists the help of her one-time partner, former cop Max “Cap” Caplan. Despite a case with so few leads, Alice Vega is a powerful woman whose determination is matched only by her intellect, and, along with her partner Cap, she will stop at nothing to find the Janes’ killers before it is too late. Louisa Luna is writing new classics of crime fiction, and her partnership of Vega and Cap is rightfully joining the pantheon of the most memorable thrillers.
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3 primary booksAlice Vega is a 3-book series with 3 primary works first released in 2018 with contributions by Louisa Luna.
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I am so glad I put this book on hold while I read the first one, because the references to the first book would have absolutely not been enough for me. I also specified this in my review to ‘Two Girls Down', I first got my hands on this book, can't remember how it caught my attention, and while I read the first few chapters it became clear to me this was a sequel so I looked it up and, yes, there it was. That being said, I strongly recommend reading the first book beforehand because otherwise you really can't get the whole picture.
I loved Vega and Cap just as much reading ‘The Janes' and I loved the way they advanced, so to say, their relationship. There is absolute trust between them, and I really like how one of them could say the most random, ludicrous thing and the other would have their back no question asked. They make a great team, they did from day one, but as they get to work and know each other more, they're working even better.
However, I did not enjoy ‘The Janes' as much as I did ‘Two Girls Down'. The plot was, again, constructed very well, I didn't encounter a single lucky coincidence here either, but I feel like it took a turn to the mainstream. This is not necessarily a bad thing, but it just made me not enjoy part of the book that much. Also, the detectives in San Diego are not nearly as good as the ones in Denville, in my humble opinion. I might have disliked some of the cops in Denville at first, but once they got their hands on a suspect they did their jobs flawlessly, I was impressed while reading. The ones in San Diego were not as solid. And I might have missed Nell a bit. Just a tad.
Back to what I liked, apart from the two main characters and, yes, the plot, it was the first and last chapter of the book, specifically the storytelling. The narrative style Louisa Luna used here has a name, which I don't know right now, but it is a narrative style I like a lot.
I want to know more about Vega and Cap and what other cases they might work on. There were a few things in this novel that made me curious about what comes next for both of them. Meanwhile, I might take a look at what else Louise Luna wrote.
