Marcy McCreary

This was an entertaining police procedural with a lot of complexity.

Susan Ford, in the middle of a nasty summer cold/sinus infection, catches the case of the death of young woman. Coincidentally, or maybe not, the woman had tried to phone Susan just hours before she was murdered but didn't leave a message.

Now Susan who is reluctantly including her father retired detective Will Ford has to figure out who wanted Madison Garcia dead. And there are loads and loads of suspects and possible reasons why someone would want her dead.

Not only is Susan investigating suspects but she's trying to mediate between her warring parents who are no longer speaking to each other.

Fans of police procedurals will enjoy this title.… (más)

Fifty-three-year-old Susan Ford is on desk duty until the wound in her leg heals and Internal Affairs finishes their investigation of the incident where Susan shot a young black drug dealer. She claims he had a gun, but no gun was found at the scene.

When bones are found by a local highway, the first thought is that Trudy Solomon who disappeared forty years earlier has finally been found. This might bring resolution to a case that had been plaguing her father, retired Detective Will Ford, for all that time. The whole Trudy Solomon investigation loomed large in Susan's memory too. It happened at the same time her grandfather died, her parents divorced, and she lost her best friend to other friends.

But the body is not Trudy's and a run of her Social Security cards finds Trudy in a memory care unit in Massachusetts, Will asks Susan to help him try to find out what Trudy's missing years contained. So, with her department's permission, Susan and Will begin to dig into the disappearance of Trudy Solomon again. They discover a couple of murders, family secrets of all sorts, and unknown babies.

This was an engaging, character-filled mystery with all sorts of twists and turns. I enjoyed getting to know Susan and her parents. I also found the problem of possible police targeting of Blacks and the Black Lives Matter thread to be timely.… (más)

Rounding it up to 3.5 stars.

Thanks to Suzy Approved Book reviews and the author.

What a tangled web we weave. Three plots going on at once. Murder, deception, family dysfunction and a whole bunch of characters that were easy to keep straight thankfully. I liked how it all tied together at the end and it was easy to understand mostly how it did.

It was an interesting read to say the least. Susan (who was a detective, like her father) Her father is a retired detective also and one of his cases 40 years later was reopened and he got re-involved in it. Her boyfriend also was a detective and had a hand in it but not as much. For some reason, and I can't put my finger on it, I didn't like him. LOL.

Then there's the Cuttman family who owned a resort in the Catskills that Susan was friends with growing up. They were the dysfunctional family and played a big role in the murder and other things that came up.

The author did a great job with this book and I saw at the end of the book there was an excerpt of her next book. I might be reading that one too.… (más)