When Phin Bishop shows up at Broussard Investigations just in time to see a man chasing a woman fleeing the premises and their receptionist on the floor bleeding out from a gunshot wound. Struggling to overcome his PTSD, Phin lends a hand by staunching the wound, but his bad timing makes him a suspect. In order to clear his name he needs to find the woman who fled, Cora Winslow. Cora was at Broussard Investigations to ask her friend Joy for help in discovering who murdered her dad 23 years ago. She doesn’t expect to be running for her life through the streets of New Orleans.

When Phin tracks Cora down she’s just coming out of the police station where she told her side of the story. He and the Broussard team agree to help Cora investigate her fathers murder in the hopes of finding the person who attacked a member of their team. Phin and Cora make a pretty instant connection, both of them having survived trauma in their lives and see a lot of similarities in each other even though their stories are completely different. As they investigate each clue they rely on each other more and more and their feelings become more romantic. I thought the author did a good job of describing Phin’s PTSD and how he gets through each moment when he is triggered. I could see how kind-hearted Cora could see past his insecurities and self-doubts to the strengths of the person underneath. For me that aspect of the story worked well, but the mystery was what shone.

It’s hard to talk about a mystery without giving away any of the details and I don’t want to spoil this story for anyone else. I’ll just say that there were a lot of threads to this story and although you know the bad guy from almost the very beginning the author crafted a story that was interesting, held my attention, and created characters I cared about. All in all a solid book!

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