Book of the Week: The Informationist

If you love a good mystery, thriller or suspense story then Taylor Stevens' first novel, The Informationist, is for you.

Vanessa "Michael" Munroe has been hired to find the missing daughter of an oil billionaire who disappeared four years earlier while visiting Africa.

Michael grew up in Africa, speaks many of the languages and understands the different cultures and their subtle nuances. She knows how to adapt to her environment which makes her an excellent collector of information and the perfect candidate to succeed where others have failed.

But nine years earlier she fled the country on the run.

If she takes this job, she must return to her originals and face the past that has haunted her.

It's a gripping, well-constructed first novel that introduces us to a new writer of suspense thrillers.