Book Review for Where There's Smoke by Rachel Louise Adams

 

Coldren County #2

Where There's Smoke by Rachel Louise Adams

Published:  October 6, 2026 by Minotaur Books

Genre:  Mystery, Horror, Thriller, Suspense

Taken from Goodreads:  A lot has happened in Dolores Hawthorne’s life since the events of last Halloween. She’s divorced, traded being a forensic pathologist for a job as a medical examiner, and now lives in small-town Wisconsin, close—but not too close—to her family.

Dolores doesn’t have much in the way of work, but that all changes when a body is found at the local slaughterhouse. Benedict Marcy owned Marcy’s Meats, and is affectionately called Mr. Mercy across the region. This high-profile case quickly catches the attention of Dolores’s friends at the FBI.

From the very beginning, this case is full of contradictions and surprises, and the team quickly learns someone is willing to go to extreme lengths to stop them from finding out the truth behind Benedict Marcy’s murder.

My Thoughts:  Where There’s Smoke pulled me in from the first page and never let me go.   I felt like I was on a twisty turny adventure that I did not want to ever end.   The story moved at a fast pace and never slowed down.  

I do not read horror but this one was more dark thriller suspense.  When I say dark, I mean pitch black dark.  A murder in a slaughter house… does it get darker than that?

Thank you  Minotaur Books  for a copy of the book via NetGalley in exchange for my honest review.

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