Forgotten/Buried/Exposed ...Twisted Cedar Mysteries Trilogy by CJ Carmichael
I stumbled on these books when I was perusing what I like to call the Nook "cheap reads" section. Most of the time you get what you pay for; see my post on His Baby Bond...eeee gods! In this case, the first book in the trilogy was a cheap read offered with the hope of drawing you in and getting you to buy the other two which were progressively more expensive...but let's keep it in perspective in the final analysis I think the whole trilogy was like eleven dollars and fifty cents so we're not breakin' the bank here or anything. These books were certainly worth the price of admission.
The Twisted Cedar Mysteries follow one main thread over the course of the trilogy. True crime writer Dougal Lachlan is drawn into a decades old unsolved crime which continues to fester and develop even as he and his sidekick try to pin it down. Lachlan reminds me a little of Balducci's heroes (which as I've written before, I find somewhat indistinguishable from each other but in an a tolerable way) and a little of Galbraith's Cormoran Strike (just a little-there's no one quite like CS)- he's not so perfect, not so fully developed, sort of the kind of person you might sit next to at a diner for a late night snack and wonder about...I liked him well enough. The story had some interesting twists and turns. The writing was fairly mundane but by no means offensive. I identified no quoteable quotes, no new words, nothing that I just have to share.
Upon further investigation it turns out these books are only available digitally which is interesting-so they are surely not "main steam" and I think you would have to either stumble on them as I did or else get a recommendation-which I suppose I am offering you here. If you like these kinds of books, along the lines of a Tana French novel (and no, I am NOT suggesting these are anywhere near the caliber of French's books, just that its the same general genre) and you are looking for a good read, I'd recommend this series.
Rating: #4 Liked It
The Twisted Cedar Mysteries follow one main thread over the course of the trilogy. True crime writer Dougal Lachlan is drawn into a decades old unsolved crime which continues to fester and develop even as he and his sidekick try to pin it down. Lachlan reminds me a little of Balducci's heroes (which as I've written before, I find somewhat indistinguishable from each other but in an a tolerable way) and a little of Galbraith's Cormoran Strike (just a little-there's no one quite like CS)- he's not so perfect, not so fully developed, sort of the kind of person you might sit next to at a diner for a late night snack and wonder about...I liked him well enough. The story had some interesting twists and turns. The writing was fairly mundane but by no means offensive. I identified no quoteable quotes, no new words, nothing that I just have to share.
Upon further investigation it turns out these books are only available digitally which is interesting-so they are surely not "main steam" and I think you would have to either stumble on them as I did or else get a recommendation-which I suppose I am offering you here. If you like these kinds of books, along the lines of a Tana French novel (and no, I am NOT suggesting these are anywhere near the caliber of French's books, just that its the same general genre) and you are looking for a good read, I'd recommend this series.
Rating: #4 Liked It
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