You Can't Escape by Nancy Bush

THE BIGGEST MISTAKE 
The branding iron glows in the moonlight as he presses the searing metal into his victim’s flesh. She must wear the devil’s sign, just like the others. He knows the curse that afflicts them—and he’ll make sure they carry it to their graves… 
IS BELIEVING 
When investigative reporter Jay "Dance" Danzinger is nearly killed in a bomb blast, journalist Jordanna Winters senses a career-making story. Together they can find out who’s responsible. But as their investigation uncovers a string of unsolved murders, each body branded in the same way, Jordanna realizes that Dance isn’t the only one in danger. 
YOU COULD EVER GET AWAY… 
Small towns can hold big, dark secrets. Deep in Jordanna’s troubled past is the key to a killer’s terrifying mission—to purge the guilty one by one, burning their flesh to free their souls. And her turn is coming, as he prepares to make his mark once more…

Review:  I was given an ARC of You Can't Escape from NetGallery for an honest review so this is my review.
I have read a number of book in this "series" by Nancy Bush and this is this first one that it took almost the entire book for me to really get into it. For some reason this book seemed to jump around way too much and have more going on then really needed to be going on. There were three cases that were being dealt with at one time and sometimes the jumps from subject to subject just did not flow as smoothly as I would like to see. I hope this gets taken care of before the final version hits the stores but if not I think the book needs to flow a bit better with some of the transitions.
Now for the mysteries. I was not that impressed with the part about the bombing and who did it and that entire storyline. It was a good way to get Max and Jordanna together but other then that I really felt it was only in the book to tie the Rafferty link and series into the book because it really wasn't needed. As for the missing girl, the branded body and the "family curse" I loved that and that part of the book kept me guessing and I really wish Bush would have spent more time with that part of the book and gone a lot deeper with that story because that alone would have been an excellent read but there was not enough meat on that bone to take that part of that book alone to that next level. Then the final mystery, the bones in the closet, is more or less the tease to the next book so we just had a small taste of that, but not sure if it had to be in the main book to add more to a book with a lot going on already.
Overall this book was worth the read but for me it would have been a lot better if it did not pack so much in it. Sometimes more is not better and it is because of this I am giving You Can't Escape four out of five stars.