Dirt Creek by Haley Scrivenor

 

Dirt Creek by Haley Scrivenor

Rating: Starred Review

Summary: A small town in the outback of Australia is fractured when a young girl on her way home from school with her best friend goes missing. The investigation centers around a group of families interwoven and told from different character point of view.

Comments: A  brilliant crime novel that goes bleak and dark with horrible consequences. It a no win crime novel told from various characters with a nifty ending told from the characters. Highly recommend for those who have read those great out Outback crime novels.

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Rafferty’s Last Case by Larry Millett

Rafferty’s Last Case by Larry Millett

Rating: 5 stars

Summary: Rafferty is in the final stages of life. While almost completing his final case he is viscously stabbed in the back in his apartment. Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson come to town and along with Rafferty’s best friend Thomas and they dig through the investigation of a very corrupt City of St. Paul police and government of three homicides.

Comments: Another wonderful Minnesota crime novelist. I will be back reading Millett for sure. 

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Every Cloak Rolled in Blood by James Lee Burke

 

Every Cloak Rolled in Blood by James Lee Burke

Rating: Stared Review

Summary: Successful writer Aaron Holland Broussard is tangled in emotion of the sudden lose of his daughter. He is haunted by her ghost. When he has his barn door painted with a swastika it sets in motion events that will expose the drug culture on Montana.

Comments: Lots of ghost and goblins. Equal part ghost story and crime novel. Do you talk to the dead? 

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I Am Not Who You Think I Am by Erik Rickstad

 

I Am Not Who You Think I Am by Erik Rickstad

Rating: 5 stars

Summary: A teen boy who witnessed his father commit suicide with a shotgun starts to question his father death. The path leads him to many family secrets and his own downfall.

Comments: A peel the onion back suspense novel that has some serious shocks to the system.  A  very compelling read. Highly recommend.

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