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Note: this review will be posted for all five books in this series – I purchased each in order over the course of 10 days or so, I could not put them down!

Marek Okerlund and his young daughter need a fresh start. His wife and unborn son were recently killed by a drunk driver, his daughter is badly traumatized by their deaths and his job as a detective in Albuquerque is too much to handle. He decides to return to his home town, hoping its small rural community will be less violent than the big city and allow him and his daughter to heal. But this small town has its own problems, primarily, the stigma of Marek’s past and the past of his family.

Each of the books start with murder, and the mysteries are complicated and well done, but it’s the dynamics of this rural world, its people, its landscape and everything else that has me hooked on this series. As the series develops, Marek overcomes a great deal, but is still forced to overcome more. His half-brother hates him, his boss is his niece and his grandfather was a murderer, and no one has forgotten that. On top of everything else, Marek’s childhood dyslexia left the residents of his hometown thinking he was a bumbling idiot, something he is far from, but can’t seem to outlive.

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Wow, will definitely check these books out!