Valerie Brandy
About
A wealthy community. A body discovered behind locked gates. Someone on the street is a MURDERER.
Private Investigator Annie Hudson doesn’t see the world like everyone else. Brought on as a special crime consultant by her childhood friend– FBI Agent Ethan Beckett– Annie Hudson can solve any case that’s put in front of her. Except for the case from her childhood that made her who she is.
But when Annie is summoned to Aspen Lane to solve a murder, the past breaks wide open. A body has been found in the middle of this upscale enclave, and the gates were locked at the time. The murderer lives on Aspen Lane. Six houses. Even more suspects. Can Annie get to the bottom of the mystery on this exclusive street, where the neighbors keep secrets and loyalty is hard to come by?
Fan of Knives Out and Mary Stone will love this classic, locked-door mystery in which the best of Agatha Christie meets a new detective to root in for in Private Investigator Annie Hudson.
My review
Thank you to the author for allowing me an advance copy of this book to review.
This is the first book in the Annie Hudson Mysteries.
This book for me, started to improve towards the end. The plot is very much in a style of Agatha Christie, the gathering of suspects in one place. The plot is very fluffy, the characters hard to relate too, no real substance to them, the only character I liked was Mr Markin, we seem to find out a lot more about him than the others. There aren’t any real twists or suspense, it is just a murder in a affluent community that is really quite boring. That said I struggled to work out who the murderer was until three quarters of the way through. I did like the way each chapter was a characters, that made it easy to follow. They flowed into each other quite well. One chapter about Malcolm though had me confused to begin with when Mr Markin was being referred too as Mr Malcolm several times, I assume this hadn’t been picked up during proof reading.
The backstory behind the detectives Annie and Ethan was great, I was hoping their story would be solved but the final pages added an unexpected twist to that story. This is where the author as piqued my interest, wanting me to read further about these two characters.
