All We Buried by Elena Taylor

Item: All We Buried
Rating: 4
Author: karenbaron

Posted April 13, 2020 by karenbaron in Blog Tour, Contest - Giveaway, Mystery, Review / 1 Comment

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All We Buried

by Elena Taylor

Series: Sheriff Bet Rivers Mystery #1
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Published by Crooked Lane Books on April 7, 2020
Genres: Traditional Mystery
Pages: 301
Format: Kindle
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For fans of Julia Keller and Sheena Kamal, All We Buried disturbs the long-sleeping secrets of a small Washington state mountain town.

Deep in the woods surrounding the Cascade mountain range, a canvas-wrapped body floats in a lake, right in Elizabeth "Bet" Rivers's jurisdiction. Bet has been sitting as interim sheriff of Collier after her father's--the previous sheriff's--death six months ago. Everyone knows everyone in a town like Collier. She has made it her duty to protect the people she's come to see as family. And she intends to hold her title in the upcoming election, but she's never worked a murder investigation on her own before and her opponent and deputy, Dale Kovac, isn't going down without a fight.

Upon unwrapping the corpse, Bet discovers the woman is from out of town. Without an identification, the case grows that much more puzzling. Determined to prove herself worthy, however, Bet must confront the warped history of Collier. The more she learns, the more she realizes she doesn't know the townspeople of Collier as well as she thought, and nothing can prepare her for what she is about to discover.

All We Buried by Elena Taylor was an exciting tale of mystery, crime, and carrying a family legacy.

Will Bet solve this case before it gets leaked to the press?

Bet Rivers

Bet Rivers came back to help her dad out while he recovers from cancer. It turns out it was a ruse to bring his daughter back to take his place as Sheriff for their small town. A significant difference between LA to a small town. Elizabeth has been doing an excellent job with the first part of it. Well, until a dead body comes up in the local lake and that is oddly like a body she has seen in her nightmares. She now has to solve that case and figure out not only why she was killed but who she was. Bet is a proper police officer and a great sheriff.

What I like about her is that she doesn’t let what happened in the past reflects on how she treats a suspect. I also like how she doesn’t make the other guy running for Sheriff, that is a deputy scare her either.

The Mystery

A young lady shows up in their lake, where nothing has survived and brings up a lot of questions for this small town’s deputies. Bet and her team have to try to find out who the girl is while not scaring away the rest of the tourists and not to alarm anyone either. It takes a lot of digging up of evidence for Bet and her team to figure out who did it. I admit I fell for some herrings.

Four Stars

All We Buried by Elena Taylor is an exciting tale for a cop procedural. I loved seeing how crime works from the angle of the story focusing on the cops instead of the sleuth. Ms. Taylor has a great way of doing that in this work. For that, I am giving it four stars and recommending it to anyone that wants to give Ms. Taylor’s novel a try.

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About Elena Taylor

Elena Taylor spent several years working in theater as a playwright, director, designer, and educator before turning her storytelling skills to fiction. Her first series, the Eddie Shoes Mysteries, written under the name Elena Hartwell, introduced a quirky mother/daughter crime-fighting duo. With All We Buried, Elena returns to her dramatic roots and brings readers a much more serious and atmospheric novel. Located in her beloved Washington State, Elena uses her connection to the environment to produce a forbidding story of small-town secrets and things that won’t stay buried. Elena is also a senior editor with Allegory Editing, a developmental editing house, where she works one-on-one with writers to shape and polish manuscripts, short stories, and plays. If you’d like to work with Elena, visit www.allegoryediting.com.When she’s not writing or coaching writing, her favorite place to be is at the farm with her horses, Jasper and Radar, or at her home, on the middle fork of the Snoqualmie River in North Bend, Washington, with her husband, their dog, Polar, and their cats, Coal Train and Cocoa. Elena holds a B.A. from the University of San Diego, a M.Ed. from the University of Washington, Tacoma, and a Ph.D. from the University of Georgia.