A Book Review

“Cutting Edge” by Allison Brennan (FBI Trilogy #3)

Attempting to bury the past might just be what leads to your death.

Nikki H. Rose
The Riveting Review
4 min readAug 7, 2020

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Having read Brennan’s Lucy Kincaid series first, this FBI trilogy felt as though it was written to fill in the blanks in regards to some of the supporting characters in Kincaid’s world. But this isn’t the case, as this trilogy was written alongside some of the Lucy Kincaid series’ earliest books. While it still could be regarded as filler, these books take on a life of their own, offering readers the opportunity to explore these characters in ways they wouldn’t expect if they had only read the Lucy Kincaid series.

Cutting Edge, for example, focuses on FBI Special Agent Nora English. But anyone who has read the Lucy Kincaid series will know her as Duke Rogan’s wife. Yet this book allows readers to see how they started. To see them interact. To see Nora initially fight against the very essence that draws them together, constantly afraid of letting anyone get too close to her.

Working alongside Duke Rogan, Nora is tracking down arsonists in a series of cases that remain unsolved. Someone has been targeting biomedical research laboratories and has made it their mission to destroy facilities and free any animals being used for research. But when someone…

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Nikki H. Rose
The Riveting Review

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