This book starts out as a standard murder mystery, involving, as you might expect, the ritual slayings of members of a coven. The police team assigned to the task of solving the murders is a pretty standard bunch, complete with the usual fake antipathy leading to comedic banter between the chief detective and the pathologist. […]
“The Flats” by Kate Birdsall
Despite the title, “The Flats” is not a story about a place. It’s a story about a person. Namely Detective Sergeant Liz Boyle, a wonderfully crafted, multi-dimensional character who develops and grows as the tale progresses. The plot starts off with a gut-wrenching murder – that of a 5-year-old – and revolves around Boyle’s inability […]
“Sleep, Savannah, Sleep” by Alistair Cross
Long ago I discovered that most novels finish exactly the way they start. If a book seems like a certain type of story in the first three chapters, then it will probably end that way. Most novels. Once in a while, we find a book that starts out in one direction but somewhere in the […]