Cold As Ice

***1/2

PG

{UM}

Could Recommend

I was excited to read some of Stephanie Black's stand alone mysteries after getting caught up on her Natalie Marsh series.  This one takes place in the same town as the Marsh series and uses the same detectives and a couple of other characters so that was fun...

I liked the plot...mostly from the point of view of the sister of the main suspect in the murder.

The only thing I had against it was a few {Uncomfortable Moments}.  The accused has an unsavory past and so things from his former days, such as history with a girlfriend, popped up a few times.

Something that I didn't expect because it wasn't a part of the series I read earlier was Black's open link to religion.  The main characters are members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.  Usually I'm not a fan of fiction writers that use the church in their books.  I don't know why but for some reason it usually rubs me the wrong way.  It caught me off guard here and kind of bugged but it wasn't referred to enough to really put me off...so I was kind of okay with it.

Anyway, another pretty clean mystery I feel I could recommend!