Showing posts with label Loretta Ross. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Loretta Ross. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 1, 2017

Death & the Gravedigger's Angel by Loretta Ross

Death & the Gravedigger's Angel by Loretta  RossWren and Death are back, this time with Death's brother being included in the fun. The book opens with a dead, drunk man wearing an authentic Confederate coat. It seems that he stole a horse and died when his head hit a branch. Oh, and the coat has chemicals on it that make it obvious that it was recently buried on someone else. 
Death is asked to look into the murder of a bible-thumper's son. It seems that the man's church picketed a Muslim woman's death and now the son has turned up in the backseat of her husband. The supposed-murderer's friend asks Death to prove that the man committed the murder under the strain of PTSD.
Meanwhile, Wren is helping to clean out a house for auction and is running into some mysterious happenings there. And it's her handwriting that is found on a note in the drunk dead man's pocket.
I always feel like I'm missing something in these books. I have read both of the other books in this 
series and, while it seems like the information is all there... I just don't know if it's that the characters aren't quite fully developed or whether the story isn't quite finished, I don't know. I am frustrated that I can't put my finger on what it is that makes me feel like I'm only reading 90% of the story. I definitely know that I didn't feel like the stories in this book were tied together well. I'm also frustrated that we didn't get to see a lot of Wren in this story and we didn't get to know more about Randy.

Three stars
This book comes out February 8

Monday, February 1, 2016

Death and the Brewmaster’s Widow by Loretta Ross

Death and the Brewmaster’s Widow (The Auction Block Mysteries, #2)Death and Wren are back in a slightly soap opera-y (one of the characters even acknowledges that it's a bit far-fetched) book that is no less delightful for the high drama.
Death has gone to St. Louis to pack up his brother's house. At the end of the last book, we learned that Randy had died in a fire. Wren eventually joins him and the two, with Randy's friends, start to discover that this so-called "accident" may be anything but.
The solution to the mystery is easy to guess but doesn't detract from the joy of reading this story. The book doesn't come out until February 8, 2016 which is distressing because I can't wait to read the next book in the series.