Review Morgan Hatch delivers a strong debut with Gone to Ground. He takes readers along the streets of Los Angeles with vivid imagery, allowing us to immerse ourselves in the story. Through the Jimenez family's and background as an immigrants struggling to survive after devastating loss and limitations, the author outlines the reality that these… Continue reading Gone to Ground by Morgan Hatch
Dash Fuller is the guy that Hollywood elites call when they need something covered up and secrets kept. Or at least he used to be. These days he’s giving stand-up comedy a try. When an old colleague asks for help in finding a couple young celebrities, Dash reluctantly takes the job, desperate for the cash payout. While he only planned for a brief stunt, a young woman, Madeline Ironwood, approaches him with a seemingly impossible task. Her father, Ken Ironwood, went missing about 20 years ago. Then his body turned up in a barrel at the bottom of a lake. And Madeline wants Dash’s help in finding out who killed him. Washed up in his own self-loathing from a life of hiding humanity’s worst secrets, he thinks this might be a chance to do some good. But there’s a handful of people who want the truth to remain hidden. And they will go to great lengths to ensure that. Where the Bones Lie by Nick Kolakowski is a contemporary crime fiction novel where Dash and Madeline work against Hollywood elite and thugs alike to uncover the truth, only to learn that the crimes reach much further than they had ever expected.
Detective Harriet Foster has some years under her belt working to solve crimes in the City of Chicago. In her latest case, a well-connected college student turns up dead in a field near his family’s campus mansion. The scene and evidence point to alcohol poisoning. But the moments that passed between the time of death, when the body was found, and when authorities were notified raises suspicions. When Harri and her partner Vera begin digging deeper, they connect the dots to a case from 30 years ago in which a student’s body was found in the same field. With no leads and uncooperative witnesses, Harri and Vera have their work cut out for them. But Harri is still mourning the death of her previous partner. And also trying to catch whoever has been harassing her about the past. Echo by Tracy Clark is the third installment in the Detective Harriet Foster Thriller series in which Harri must open up to her team if she wants to catch a killer, and her stalker, before it’s too late.
