Thanks to Net Galley and Bold Stroke Books for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

Let me just say I am a huge fan of J.M. Redmann's Mickey Knight series. Indeed, Redmann has long been my favourite lesbian/mystery/thriller author. Like many readers, however, I was disappointed with her last two books. Redmann, more than any author I have encountered gives us three- dimensional characters that live long in the memory. She has the unique gift of making the reader laugh or cry when framing the exploits of her irrepressible heroine, Mickey Knight. I must confess I love Mickey. She is exceptionally well drawn by Redmann - lovable, tenacious and fallible. In this book Mickey takes on a rather complex and perplexing case involving multiple series of twins from a mob family in Atlanta, Georgia. This was rather a twisty mystery which drew both Mickey and the ghastly Karen Holloway into the web of organised crime and the factious Brande crime family., As we have come to expect from previous books, Mickey saves the day and rescues more than one damsel in distress. Whilst this was a satisfying mystery, Mickey is still in quite a lonely place. There is little engagement with the fantastic cast of characters we have come to love in earlier books.. Apart from Joanne, we hear little from Danny, Ellie and Alex. This, as we come to learn, is down to the machinations of Cordelia's partner, Nancy. This, for me, is one of the mystery's still to be resolved in the series. Why is Cordelia with Nancy? A rather unpleasant scene between Nancy and Mickey suggests Cordelia and Nancy's relationship may not be the loving one we assumed. Maybe the relationship is held together by obligation on Cordelia’s part? Has Nancy manipulated Cordelia into splitting with Micky? It is simply impossible to believe that Cordelia would willingly stay with Nancy for any other reason. I suspect we have a lot more to learn about Nancy and the events recounted in ‘The Shoal of Time’ which involved Cordelia and Mickey's break-up.

If so, please J.M. resolve these questions in the next book!

If not for the absence of Mickey's friends this would have been a 5 star review.

I love the Mickey Knight series. Spending time in the real New Orleans, seeing the local sights and reading about a city trying to rebuild after a natural disaster. This time Mickey and her friend are used to help the rebel side of the mobster family steal from The Godfather.
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Mickey is drawn into a twisted mystery. Mickey takes on a case when a woman named Aimee ask to look for her sister when tries to research the women who hire her because she knows when someone not telling the whole truth.

Things get more complicated when she doesn't know if the woman who hire her is in the morgue or if she still alive who the real victim is as she deal with learning this case is more then it seems especially with the mob family in Atlanta Georgia. Then you have this realtor Karen being drawn into the case as Mickey tried sort out what going on.

You can tell Mickey still heroine but also tell she lonely an that her ex Cordelia is dating someone name Nancy who isn't a great person everybody thinks she is because can't seem to see Cordelia staying with her. I like that we got to glimpse other characters in previous books Joanne Danny Ellie and Alex it was nice seeing them and how they are doing.