Book Review: His Hand in the Storm by Ritu Sethi

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Setting the bar high this am, for Mystery Monday, after Nancy Drew, is a Colorado Gold MYSTERY AWARD WINNER, 

and a Daphne du Maurier Suspense Finalist!

Synopsis:

A MAN COPES ANY WAY HE CAN AFTER KILLING HIS ONLY SON.

His team believes he’s calm and Zen. His boss finds him obsessive. Suspects think him gorgeous but dangerous. They’re all right.

Chief Inspector Gray James is sculpting the remembered likeness of his small son when he receives the call – a faceless corpse is found hanging by the choppy river, swirls of snow and sand rolling like tumbleweeds.

Montreal glitters: the cobbled streets slippery with ice, and the mighty St. Lawrence jetting eastward past the city. One by one, someone is killing the founders of a booming medical tech startup – propelling Gray into a downward spiral that shatters his hard-earned peace, that risks his very life, that threatens to force him to care and face what he has shunned all along: his hand in the storm.

Review:

This is book 1 in the Chief Inspector Gray James series (Kill Me Why is book 2). It follows typical Canadian police procedural concepts, but with a twist. You know at the beginning that James has killed his son (yet is still working as a police detective) and that he suffered injuries that in real life would have put him OUT of his job. So the reader starts off wanting questions answered, unrelated to the death presented to James to solve. What follows is more of a psychological thriller, with near death experiences happening to James and him trying to figure out who is trying to kill him, WHILE solving the mystery at hand and dealing with superiors who doubt his ability to function at all. Add in having to protect witnesses in a speed game with the killer and you have a complex murder mystery, that is hard to put down. And then Ritu gives you an ending that literally will knock your socks off and have you reading the last page over and over and eagerly hunting out the next book! So don't miss this new series, sure to become your latest addiction!

About the Author:

Ritu needs coffee (her patch for Coca Cola), beaches, and murder mysteries to survive – not necessarily in that order. She has spent many years in Montreal and Vancouver – and decided to set her Gray James novels in those two cities. She is an avid mystery reader (especially of classic psychological mysteries). When she couldn't find a protagonist like Gray James – a combination of Dalgliesh, James Bond, and Hercule Poirot – she created him. And the Gray James Novels were born. She likes to write at her dining room table by the fireplace and hopes to one day live by the ocean. Alas, there are not so many (warm) opportunities to do this in Canada:-)  As a self-published author, Ritu makes all the creative decisions regarding her work – the blurb, the cover, the plot – and the artistic freedom this affords is thrilling. She’s fulfilling her lifelong desire of becoming a mystery writer. Many thanks to all the readers who are making that possible.FOLLOW HER ON BOOKBUB to receive emails for new releases/free deals.