Cold Conviction by Daryl Wood Garber Book Review

 

Published October 27, 2020.

I was selected by Ms. Garber for a "read and review" through a Facebook giveaway. This is the first book I have read by Ms. Garber and the third in her series of Aspen Adams.

Aspen is a former therapist turned private detective. She gets a call out of the blue one day from her drug-addicted sister, Rosie, who, for whatever reason, is thinking about their parents' murders 14 years ago. This call sends Aspen from Lake Tahoe to the Bay Area where the crime happened. This is a tale of Aspen's adventures and misadventures while in the Bay Area trying to solve this 14-year-old crime. The question is - does she solve a crime that has been cold for so long? There are also some underlying stories intermixed that all come together in the end. Just the kind of book I enjoy reading.

While reading this book, I thought I had figured out "who dunnit," so to speak. Nope. The "bad guy" turned out to be the person you would least expect. This is what made this a good read to me, thinking it was one person and finding out it was someone else. While this is the third book in this series, it is tied up in the end, making it a book you can read as a standalone.