Despite Herself
By Jessie Chandler
ISBN: 978-1-64247-673-6
A 2025 release from
Bella Books
Passion is a six-letter word. Passion is both a noun and a verb and, in this novel, expresses a wide range of feelings, incidents, activity and results. It will be interesting to discover how booksellers will categorize and shelve this excellent novel. Is it a mystery, a procedural, a romance, or is it a detailed, carefully laid out character study? In my view, the answer is yes.
Two strong women, one a police officer, the other a bar owner, both with troubled incidents in their pasts, encounter each other in the midst of murder, divorce, alcoholic indulgence and riotous humor. Theo Zaccardo is the owner/operator of a Duluth bar called the Mashed Spud, an LGBTQ hangout. She’s quickly under suspicion as the probable killer of an obnoxious, trouble-making patron. Bec Harrison is a recovering divorcee from Detroit who has moved to Duluth to get away from her cheating spouse and all the scenes that reminds her of her failed romance. She’s a talented cop and that results in her hiring by Duluth PD.
Harrison is assigned the murder at the Mashed Spud and her connection to Theo grows. The investigation and the gradual reveal of earlier difficulties in both women’s lives is carefully blended and logically produced. This is a well-written novel with many appropriate descriptive elements that will carry readers into the physical places and the even deeper emotional developments. A moving, engrossing, carefully-paced novel with surprising and well-set conclusions.
No comments:
Post a Comment