This was my first Sam Blake book, but since finishing it I've ordered the other books in the series too. It didn't really matter that I hadn't read the previous books as with crime novels it tends to be a different case each book anyway. In No Turning Back I got to meet Cat Connolly and O'Rourke and was instantly intrigued by both. I just knew I was going to have to go and read the previous books just to find out more about these two characters and their history.
The book starts with Cat not getting the promotion she'd gone for and she's pretty angry about the whole thing. She's also back in full-on kickboxing training and to top it off, there's not one but two dead bodies.
I loved how this story flowed providing enough backstory so that I knew that characters as well as moving the book forward at an adequate pace. The story really picked up and the action was great once I was about a third of the way through.