Clare and Russ are back and their lives are as smooth as ever...which is to say not very. What I like about this series is that Spencer-Fleming doesn't think her characters are perfect--they have flaws and are all-too-human. This book is more Russ's story than Clare's as it flips back and forth in time and deals with the ongoing fight to "Save Our Police" in Millers Kill. I felt that the mystery was much darker than usual, but it was the characters that really engaged me in this outing. Of course, there are plenty of loose ends that need to be tied up in the next book.......

Thanks for NetGalley for providing a digital ARC.

From In the Bleak Midwinter through Hid From Our Eyes, I have loved these characters. This 6 year wait has not been easy, but understood. Spencer-Fleming is as good as ever and I hope at work on the next book. Clare and Russ and all the rest of Miller's Kill are some of the best characters I have read. Great book.

In the town of Miller’s Kill, women are being killed . It begins in the 1950’s when police are called to the scene of a dead woman in a party dress. She has no obvious wounds or cause of death. In the 1970’s the local police chief is called to a scene nearly identical to one he saw twenty years earlier – dead girl in a party dress with no apparent cause of death. Vietnam War vet Russ van Alstyne is the prime suspect. Now, in the present police chief Russ van Alstyne gets a call that makes his blood run cold. History has repeated itself and another dead woman in a party dress has been found. No one can ignore that this crime mirrors the one Russ was accused of in the 70’s. He’s got to find answers, and fast. He turns to his team and Clare Fergusson, the mother of his child, to help find the real killer