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I didn’t know until after I started it that this book was technically the third in a series of eight books. Fortunately, it is well written and can stand on its own, an important trait for this kind of mystery novel.

I think that having read the first two books would have made me care a little more about the storyline surrounding the detectives, Alvarez and Pescoli, but this book gave me enough information about their background that I didn’t feel lost.

I found this book inside a Little Free Library (LFL) by a trailhead in Concord. I later went back and deposited a book from a previous LFL that I hadn’t bothered to finish. It wasn’t bad, just not to my taste. I try never to return a book to the same LFL, cycling them around whenever I travel. Now that I have finished this book, it will go to a new LFL to hopefully be found and enjoyed by someone new.

This particular story is a murder mystery. It is not told from the perspective of a single character, instead moving around between the viewpoints of about half a dozen central characters: Detectives Alvarez and Pescoli, Kacey (our leading lady and potential future victim), Trace (love interest), the murderer, and the occasional victim.

The story centers around Dr. Acacia (Kacey) Lambert, a general practitioner in a small town in northern Montana. As the story unfolds, she realizes that someone is targeting women who look remarkably similar to her and were born in the same town as her. Their deaths have mostly been ruled as accidents, and no evidence has been found to link them together, but there are too many coincidences to be ignored. Kacey embarks on her own private investigation with the help of Trace, a handsome single father who owns a ranch nearby and whose long-missing wife bore a strong resemblance to Kacey. Meanwhile, detectives Alvarez and Pescoli suspect that some of the recent accidents in the area are not accidents at all but are, in fact, the work of a serial killer.

I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book, and if you are a fan of serious thriller/suspense mysteries, then head to your local library and check out some Lisa Jackson books!