A severely burned body turned up one morning in front of a shrine in Thai Town in Los Angeles. Two detectives, a veteran Oscar Morales and a newbie Tully Jarsdel, get the case and have to solve the mystery of the deceases identity as well as why he was killed in such a gruesome manner.

Morales is close to retirement and not in great health. So he makes Jardsel the lead detective. Jarsdel had been working on a doctorate and teaching in a community college when he decided to go into police work. He made a quick rise from patrolman to detective as the police chief wanted to utilize better educated detectives. His parents, 2 academics, were not pleased with the career change.


The investigators eventually learn that the dead man worked odd jobs in the Hollywood area and did not seem to have any enemies. After weeks of solid police work, the detectives were able to find the diabolical killer.

Much of this book deals with Hollywood and the film industry. It also gives the reader a view of Los Angeles and the sort of people who live and visit there. I am not a film buff not have I any interest in Los Angeles. Therefore I found parts of the book quite tedious. Whole sections could have been eliminated and the story would have been easier for me to finish.

The ARC was provided by the publisher and Net Galley in exchange for an honest review.

Loved this book. Quick paced, enjoyable. I will want to read muse by this author. The plot was interesting and the characters believable

With a wonderful cast of quirky, atypical characters, the author leads us on a merry chase through a tawdry and dated Hollywood trying to solve a particularly bizarre murder. The story grabs you from the first page and the many twists and turns in the story make it a real page turner that makes it hard to put the book down. I could not stop reading this book once I started.

This is my first exposure to this author and it definitely will not be my last!

Thank you to NetGalley who provided me with a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

This book started out good, but ended with a fizzle. There was a great deal of back story that seemed a little glossed over. (I checked a couple of times to be sure it was not a sequel.) I did not like the way the character Aleena was written. I think Schneider does a disservice to women with her. Tully is way too preachy. I was given an eARC in exchange for my fair and honest review.

A first book, a Los Angeles ex professor turned LA detective, out to right the wrongs of the world. Interesting characters, violent crimes, strange criminals. All in all a pretty good book, and i look forward to the next, which I hope there will be. Thank you netgalley.

An enjoyable story which kept me turning the pages. Would recommend to fans of this genre, really thrilling and intriguing characters.

Thanks to NET GALLEY for the ARC.

A great whodunit in downtown LA and if you have been there then you quickly know the writer knows the lay of the land. I liked the young/old pairings and I think I can see a series coming.

One Day You’ll Burn is a modern-day police procedural set in the mean streets of Los Angeles. Smoothly written, it showcases the author’s intimate familiarity with Los Angeles and the dirty streets of Hollywood that give little hint of Tinseltown’s stories past. It all begins with a virtually unsolvable homicide evidencing a rather torturous brutal killing when a corpse is dumped by a holy shrine in Thai Town, one of the newer neighborhoods of East Hollywood. Instead of a grizzled veteran homicide detective, LAPD brass has paired genius rookies with experienced veterans so that the star of this police story is a newer detective, but one who is a former PHD candidate who has a wonky tendency to go all “Rain-man” on you. The story flowed right off the pages which seemed to melt in my hands.

A creepy and dark thriller had me guessing through the whole time. A rest story. Very different from anything else I’ve read