Book Review: Murder In Lovers’ Lane. Book Two Detective Lola Harris
Stars: 3.5 x 5
Author: Daniel Sellers @danielsellersauthor
Publisher: Joffe Books @joffebooks
Thank you @netgalley for this ARC.

Lola Williams is a detective and use like many of us she has decided to get back in shape. She hires personal trainer and boy is he ruthless but he is easy on the eye and this helps when one is trying to work their butt off. Lola also just ended her 20 year old relationship with Joe who also happened to be married. Lola and Johnny her trainer, are on an early morning run and find a BNW with the doors wide open. After checking the scene out, Lola finds two bodies in the trunk fully clothed, facing each other and tied together. There also appear to be a gunshot to the head of the man but nothing for he woman. After checking the bodies, there realized the woman is still alive, barely.

Lola assigns herself the crime. With little leads, possible gang affiliation and what may be a connection to a past murder, Lola wonders ”is this a serial killer”?
Will Lola be able to solve the case before the killer strikes again?

The book is filled with surprising twist an unexpected turns. The book is a very fast read and one can not help but root for Lola along the way. Lola is smart, tough and quirky but yet has kind heart and cares about others.

This book was a good read. I do wish I had read book one first so I knew more about Lola’s character. The book overall was enjoyable to read. ( )

procedural, suspense, unputdownable, thriller, law-enforcement, Glasgow, detective, lies, gangsters, threats, secrets, murder, murder-investigation, due-diligence, office-politics, frustration, friction, gaslighting, investigators, animosity*****

DCI Lola Harris gets all the sticky investigations despite the machinations of DS Aidan Pierce. This one is a real mess and the live victim keeps telling bits and pieces that make Harris and other law enforcement question her hold on reality. Until some of the more weird things are verified as true courtesy of some extraordinary due diligence. And then things get really dangerous. The publisher's blurb is better than most, so no need to repeat or do the spoiler thing. Riveting!
I requested and received an EARC from Joffe Books via NetGalley. Thank you!

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Love lost!

Detective Chief Inspector Lola Harris is out running with her new personal trainer, Johnny, when they come across an abandoned car with a couple beside it bound together, the female unconscious, the male dead—shot though the head. Fiona Balfour has no idea how she came to be there, last she knew she and her fiancé Sean Rennie, who just happened to be the scion of a major crime family in Glasgow, were going to dinner. Rita Rennie the matriarch of the family is not putting up with anything! She wants blood, Fiona’s in particular.
Lola, after some manoeuvring is handed the case. What and who to believe? Fiona seems more like a thoughtless, self centred woman who hasn’t grown up. The possibility of this not being the killer’s first time is mooted. The investigation turns to other precincts. Looking for cases similar, with the additional props identified like black confetti, cards from funeral houses. Grim work.
Meanwhile, on the personal front Lola is trying to not contact her married lover who has cancer. Trying not to do anything foolish!
A provocative read that deals with misogyny in the police force. A read that kept me turning the pages.

A Joffe Books ARC via NetGalley.
Many thanks to the author and publisher. ( )