Book Review: Where There's Smoke by Rachel Louise Adams

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Following the USA Today bestselling series debut, No Rest for the Wicked, Rachel Louise Adams returns with Where There’s Smoke.


Synopsis:

A lot has happened in Dolores Hawthorne’s life since the events of last Halloween. She’s divorced, traded being a forensic pathologist for a job as a medical examiner, and now lives in small-town Wisconsin, close—but not too close—to her family.

Dolores doesn’t have much in the way of work, but that all changes when a body is found at the local slaughterhouse. Benedict Marcy owned Marcy’s Meats, and is affectionately called Mr. Mercy across the region. This high-profile case quickly catches the attention of Dolores’s friends at the FBI.

From the very beginning, this case is full of contradictions and surprises, and the team quickly learns someone is willing to go to extreme lengths to stop them from finding out the truth behind Benedict Marcy’s murder.

Review:

This is the second book in the new series and it can be read standalone as enough information is given about Dolores's previous experiences. However, this book is not for vegans as the slaughterhouse scenes might be triggering for them. The book encompasses two mysteries at once for Dolores and her FBI friends to deal with - The slaughterhouse murder of the owner, and a death at the local prison. Are they connected? It doesn't seem so just odd that if they occurred at the same time. As the three of them work to discover the suspects and the reasoning for the murders, they'll realize there's a lot going on in the county that no one knew about. This one is a little more convoluted then the initial book and it may take you longer to get through as it did me.

About the Author:

RACHEL LOUISE ADAMS was raised in a small town in Brittany by a French father and a North American mother. After studying literature at university, she wrote her PhD thesis on American fast food and meat eating. When she isn’t writing or reading, she can be found advocating for animal rights and spending time with her fiancé, her friends, and her two cats.