A Shot in the Dark: A Twitten Mystery (A Constable Twitten Mystery)

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Of course they are able to work things out in the end, but I really enjoyed the journey of both of them dealing with ongoing addiction recovery and facing their estranged families and pasts.

The novel opens with recounting the events of the legendary Middle Street Massacre that took place in the seaside town of Brighton in June 1951 and established the impressive reputation of the newly posted Inspector Geoffrey Steine (pronounced Steen). And if I had gone into this with the right expectations for a deep contemporary, I think this is something I would have been raving about.Victoria Lee doesn't have to imagine, that's for sure, because after reading all of these books, I'm convinced they can pull off any genre. The wounds of abandoning the Orthodox community that raised her, then shunned her because of her substance abuse, are still painful.

This happens sometimes when a book is trying to be Not Like Other Romances (TM), something we sometimes see in trad pub romances that lean into lit fic so that the book will be taken more seriously. The hot and satisfying sex scenes feel simultaneously mainstream and wonderfully queer, grounded by the protagonists’ genuine connection.As Crystal is detailing the clues he’s collected over the years, in hopes of remembering something he’s sure he saw that would identify the culprits, a shot rings out and Crystal is dead.