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    A Cold Day in Hell

    By Lissa Marie Redmond

    3.5/5

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    About this ebook

    Lauren's job as a cold case homicide detective is her life. And life just got complicated.

    Lauren Riley is an accomplished detective who has always been on the opposite side of the courtroom from slick defense attorney Frank Violanti. But now he's begging to hire her as a private investigator to help clear his client of murder. At first Lauren refuses, wanting nothing to do with the media circus surrounding the case—until she meets the eighteen-year-old suspect.

    To keep an innocent teen from life in prison, Lauren must unravel the conflicting evidence and changing stories to get at the buried facts. But the more she digs, the more she discovers that nothing is what it first appears to be. As Lauren puts her career and life in danger, doubt lurks on every corner . . . and so does her stalker.

    Praise:

    "Recommend this one to anyone who loves courtroom dramas where lawyers tear into witnesses like pit bulls. And to anyone hot for a police procedural where tired cops make mistakes but slowly, relentlessly—and with morbid humor—get the job done. Redmond delivers both in one package...The real attraction here is a keyhole view into a world that turns our expectations upside down—a world where a bullying, quasi-fascist cop can be the only one with a handle on reality. Keep your eyes on Redmond, a retired cop who knows how to write."—Booklist

    "Redmond, a recently retired Buffalo PD homicide detective, keeps everything moving nicely in this well-constructed crime novel."—Publishers Weekly

    "An excellent police procedural combined with a psychological thriller."—Kirkus Reviews

    "A Cold Day in Hell is a fine first novel and Lauren Riley is cool new addition to the world of PI and cop protagonists. A retired detective, Lissa Marie Redmond gives it to the reader without the sugarcoating and lifts the veil off how the system really works...or doesn't."—Reed Farrel Coleman, New York Times bestselling author of What You Break

    "Ex-cop Lissa Redmond has a sure hand with police procedure, which should be no surprise. The joy of A Cold Day in Hell comes from her equally sure hand with storytelling. This is a welcome new voice on the crime scene."—SJ Rozan, bestselling author of Ghost Hero

    "Redmond has concocted a well-crafted story with plenty of twists, but more importantly good characterization."—Mystery Scene Magazine

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLlewellyn Worldwide
    Release dateFeb 8, 2018
    ISBN9780738754529
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    Lissa Marie Redmond

    Lissa Marie Redmond is the author of the Cold Case Investigation series, and her short fiction can be found in Buffalo Noir, Down & Out, and other publications. A retired cold-case homicide detective, she has handled a number of high-profile cases and has appeared on television shows such as Dateline and Murder by Numbers. A proud wife and mother of two, she lives and writes in Buffalo, New York.

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    • 3/5
      This is a cold case procedural with a bit of courtroom thrown in. As the first in the series we have some scene setting and a lot of introductions of characters who will be around for a while.Anyone who reads a lot of this kind of book will recognize similarities with another famous book that has been made into a movie. This lowered my rating.But I think that cold case stories are particularly interesting and I think many people will like this book.I received a review copy of "A Cold Day in Hell: A Cold Case Investigation #1" by Lissa Marie Redmond (Midnight Ink) through NetGalley.com.
    • 5/5
      Lauren Riley is a police detective who works cold cases with her partner Reese. She is also a private investigator. When Frank Violanti, a defense attorney who has always been her opponent in the courtroom, wants to hire her to investigate a crime his client is accused of, she doesn't want to work with him. However, when she meets David Spencer she sees a clean-cut, good-looking eighteen-year-old who arouses her sympathy. He has been accused of murdering Katherine Vine who was last seen with him.Katherine is the wife of Anthony Vine who is famous in Buffalo for the series of gyms he owns and the ads he makes for them. In the course of the investigation we learn that Vine is having an affair with a tennis pro and is a controlling husband who placed a tracker on Katherine's car and calls or texts her more than 20 times a day. He looks like a more likely suspect than a kid who only knew Katherine because she frequently shopped at the toy store where he worked. However, as she continues her investigation, questions arise about what David is really like too.Riley is also working on some cold cases while investigating for Violanti. She is approached by the daughter of a woman who was murdered in 1993 and begins to look into that case. She is also reopens another murder case when the current abused wife comes in and tells her that her husband confessed that he killed his first wife to clear the way for her. Each of those cases has a different but realistic resolution.Meanwhile, in her personal life, an abusive ex-boyfriend who also happens to be the investigator in David Spencer's case has put Riley back on his radar and is stalking her. And she has resumed an affair with her latest ex-husband who has remarried and had a child. Riley is a complex character who has bad taste in men. She seems to always pick cheaters or losers in one way or another. Her personal life is a stark contrast to professional life where she is frequently successful and well-respected.I enjoyed watching this police procedural develop and was somewhat surprised by the twist at the end though it was foreshadowed. Fans of police procedurals with complex female main characters will enjoy this book.
    • 3/5
      This was a fairly well-written police procedural with a few interesting twists and turns and a solid cast of characters, but I thought it had a few flaws. A few of the characters, including the protagonist, displayed some rather inconsistent behavior. The courtroom drama portion of the story had a significantly faster pace than the rest of the novel, which got a tad slow at times, and made it feel like the book was speeding toward a conclusion. And the ending, while a decent twist, was rather abrupt and left too much hanging for my tastes. I prefer crime novels to wrap up the primary plots better than this one did.Overall, I think this is a pretty good debut, but there were a few places I thought it could've been stronger.[NOTE: I received an ARC of this title from the publisher via NetGalley.]
    • 1/5
      The book was recommended by Kirkus, and I even had the library special order an e-copy for me. I was excited to read it. It started out all right, but as I read it went from a solid 3 to a 2, and then at the very last chapter a 1! The characters are all unlikeable and wooden. The dialogue is poor and there is really no plot to speak of. There really isn't even a mystery. I am disappointed that i wasted the time it took to read it, but I thought it would get better. I usually love police procedurals, and I especially like books about cold cases, but this book just didn't capture my attention. And the ending! It was just left hanging. It wasn't even suspenseful enough to warrant being called a cliff-hanger ending. I can't recommend this book.