A Dream Within A Dream ~ Review

A Dream Within A Dream
A Coffey and Hill novel #3
By Mike Nappa 
     and Melissa Kosci

Trudi Coffey is enjoying an Atlanta Hawks game while on a consult in Boston. Unfortunately, enjoying the game is soon out of the question thanks to the FBI, who is searching for her ex, Samuel Hill. From there it just seems to spiral out of her control. A stranger with a gun confronts her asking for her help. There is just one problem the stranger seeking her help was sent by Darrent Hayes. Oh yes, this day, this week just keeps getting better and better.

When Trudi returns to Atlanta, Samuel is nowhere to be found, and worse more than one person is looking for him. With enemies at home and abroad looking for Samuel, Trudi does the only thing possible she starts looking for him herself. With the help of Eula, she starts working on finding Samuel with the very few details she knows.

Samuel needs help but he wants to keep Trudi as far away from the danger that is out to bring him down. Needing to keep Trudi safe and learn just what someone known as The Dream knows is of utmost importance to him. If he can get Trudi to help keep Dream safe while helping him remember could be the one thing that will keep her out of the danger hunting him. But someone seems determined to use Dream for their own purposes. Can their unlock the secrets hidden within his mind in time or are these two dangers on a collision course with Trudi, Samuel, and Dream caught in the middle?

A Dream Within A Dream is told in the voices of the three main characters, Trudi, Samuel, and Dream. For the most part, Trudi and Samuel's thoughts are straightforward, looking to whatever may come next. Dream's thoughts are a bit all over the place as his past is slowly revealed throughout the book. The action is almost non-stop as Trudi and Samuel work towards their goal - keeping Dream safe, discovering just what he knows that is so important, and staying alive for the foreseeable future.

This book like the previous two in the series has a tie to Edgar Allen Poe and his works. If you are in a mood for suspense with more than a few twists you will love A Dream Within A Dream.  Now you don't need to read the two previous books but I'd recommend doing so as there are references to both that will make more sense with familiarity with them. Overall a good read and one that will keep you turning the pages long after you should have put the book down.

I was provided a complimentary copy of this book with no expectations but that I provide my honest opinion. All thoughts I expressed are my own.


About the Book:

 He may be the key to solving one of the

greatest unsolved art heists in history

Trudi Coffey hasn't seen Samuel Hill in weeks. Then the FBI shows up asking questions about him. After a strange encounter with an armed man demanding her help and an attack by a member of the Boston mob looking for someone named Dream, Trudi manages to find Samuel--or rather, he finds her. He's made some pretty powerful enemies, but right now his full attention is on protecting Dream from the mob. Because Dream has something they want--the map to the location of artwork stolen from the Gardener Museum during the infamous 1990 heist.

With danger closing in from all sides, Trudi and Samuel will have to call on all of their allies to keep Dream safe and discover the identity of the people who have been hunting down Samuel. The real questions are whom can they trust? And who will make it out of this thing alive?