Review, Untouchable, by Kristel Greer

FBI Agent Leah Capello works in Art Crime and her recent sting operation involving Stepan Markov didn’t go to plan after the mysterious Joshua Fawls entered the room. The deal goes south and months of work are wasted. Leah is called to a gallery theft by the NYPD but Markov has staged the robbery to leverage her help locating Joshua in exchange for the missing painting. She finds Joshua in a compromising position and events get weirder from that point on. Leah learns the reason Joshua constantly wears gloves and refuses to be touched. He has psychic abilities and reads the emotion and circumstances surrounding an object with touch. Leah doesn’t know whether he is telling the truth or is simply a highly skilled conman.

Either way, she needs his special skills, uncanny luck and art world connections to save Markov's son who was kidnapped to keep Markov from an exclusive auction. The unlikely partners try to track down the location of the boy and the auction while identifying the kidnapper. An elaborate, fast-paced, and exciting search ensues full of intrigue, revelations, crazy ex-girlfriends, and dangerous adversaries at every turn. Is Joshua selling Leah a fabricated story just to cover his involvement in the kidnapping or is he honestly trying to help her solve the case? It doesn’t help that there is an obvious and tenable attraction between them that might be clouding her judgment.

This was a 🌟🌟🌟🌟 story with thrilling action and a compelling plot that involved high society manoeuvring, intricate storyline weaving with an unexpected supernatural twist. Leah and Joshua were fascinating and excellently written characters. You get a genuine sense of who they are and their motivations quite quickly which makes them easy to like. Their endless witty banter and obvious chemistry bring depth to the story as you will them to succeed both as individuals as well as a pair. Overall I was impressed with the narrative style and character portrayal. The ending did seem a little open for more but that might just be my wishful thinking.

(You should seek out more charming reviews by Kristel at livinginmyownprivatelibrary and Goodreads.)