Book Review: ‘The Pledge: A Detective Betty Novel’ By Kathleen Kent

In the third and final(?) novel, Detective Betty is up against the wall. She has two weeks to find an arch rival and take her down or people around her will be hurt and/or killed. It’s all action from the beginning, with well-written characters and a riveting story, that makes good use of the Dallas area. It reads as a stand-alone, as I didn’t read the first two books and had no issues following along. Sgt. Betty Rhyzky works for the North Central Dallas PD and two of her enemies who dead drugs and has a cult like following and at war with each other are back in town. Evangeline Roy has a score to settle with Betty and sends her message through her followers. El Cuchillo is an arch rival of Evangeline and wants her gone and gives Betty two weeks to take her down. It becomes a game of cat and mouse between the three and Dallas PD. When Mary Grace, the homeless girl who was pregnant and staying with Betty goes missing and then her daughter is taken, it becomes all out was as far as Betty is concerned. It leads to a deadly showdown and reveal about Mary Grace and her daughter.

You can pick up The Pledge in stores on Tuesday, November 16th.