Book Source ~ NetGalley
3 September 2019
Mystery
384 Pages
My Rating ~ 3 bites
Detective Matthew Venn
left his roots behind when he went to college and discovered the strict
evangelical community he grew up in was crap. It’s while he’s lurking outside
his father’s funeral many years later that he gets a call that there’s a body
on the beach. He has no clue that this case will crash land him right back into
the community he walked away from.
This is a solid but slow
moving mystery that connects several things together. I like Matthew Venn and
his team as well as his husband Jonathan and the place he manages, the
Woodyard. In other words, I really like the world and the characters. It’s not
an exciting heart-racing page-turner, but the mystery is compelling and Matthew’s
flaws, strengths, intuition, and sound detective work are what drives it
forward. I’d read more in this series.
It's great that Ann Cleaves is launching a new detective. 😎
ReplyDeleteI need to look at her other books now. :D
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