What We Bury by Carolyn Arnold – a Review

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Description:
She’s dying, and she knows it. If only she can stay alive long enough to leave one last message. As the rain beats against the metal roof, she uses her blood-soaked fingertip to scrawl on the floorboards… The letters GB.
 
Detective Madison Knight has been house hunting, but a call from her real estate agent has nothing to do with finding the perfect property. She’s found a woman’s body, stabbed multiple times. Madison arrives on scene and is presented with an unknown Jane Doe and two letters written in blood. There’s no murder weapon, and it seems Doe was attacked somewhere else.
 
As Madison works to find justice for the victim, Madison’s own life is put at risk. What she comes to discover is some people will go to extreme lengths to protect their secrets—even as far as murder. But will learning that lesson come too late for her?

Review:

What We Bury by Carolyn Arnold is the 10^th book in her Detective Madison Knight Mystery series.  As noted, many times in previous books, Carolyn Arnold always gives us exciting suspenseful murder mysteries, lead by a great detective like Madison Knight; and Arnold’s knowledge of police procedurals makes these investigations perfect.

Madison, our heroine, is a tough detective, who will let nothing stand in her way to find the guilty, as well as trying to find proof of corrupt police officers within the Stiles Police Department.  Madison is called by her real estate agent friend that a body was found in the garage. When she arrives with her partner, Terry, they discover the body of a female, stabbed multiple times, and no identity on her; the only clue is the initials of GB written in blood by the victim before she died.

While working on this case, Madison is also having problems with her boyfriend Troy, whom she has been waiting impatiently for him to propose with a ring.  At the same time, she alienates both Troy and Cynthia (her best friend), since she suspects some of their detective friends possibly working with the Russian Mafia. A few times while working on her case, she finds her life threatened, even suffering serious injuries that keep her from her case; Terry steps up to work on the case, keeping Madison on top of things.  Once she is released from the hospital, she does push herself too much, but together with Terry they will discover a number of twists and turns that changes the game.

What follows is an exciting, tense, action filled thriller with many suspects, twists, as well as Madison finding true love with Troy.  I also love her friendship with Cynthia.  I could not put the book down; especially with new developments changing constantly.  This story was very exciting and well written.  If you enjoy mysteries, murder cops, police procedurals and a tough as nails cop, then you need to be reading this series.

Reviewed by Barb

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