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Bone Canyon
by Lee Goldberg
Series: Eve Ronin #2
Series Rating:
on January 5, 2021
Genres: Police Procedurals Mystery
Pages: 287
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Also in this series: Lost Hills, Gated Prey, Movieland, Dream Town
A cold case heats up, revealing a deadly conspiracy in a twisty thriller by #1 New York Times bestselling author Lee Goldberg.
A catastrophic wildfire scorches the Santa Monica Mountains, exposing the charred remains of a woman who disappeared years ago. The investigation is assigned to Eve Ronin, the youngest homicide detective in the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, a position that forces her to prove herself again and again. This time, though, she has much more to prove.
Bones don’t lie, and these have a horrific story to tell. Eve tirelessly digs into the past, unearthing dark secrets that reveal nothing about the case is as it seems. With almost no one she can trust, her relentless pursuit of justice for the forgotten dead could put Eve’s own life in peril.
Bone Canyon by Lee Goldberg is a fabulous fast-paced mystery filled with secrets, lies, and cover-ups. You never know what is coming at Eve next.
Will Eve find the answers to the cold case that she is working on before her fellow officers take her out?
Eve Ronin
Detective Eve Ronin is assigned another high profile case. Well, it becomes high profile after Eve and Duncan start digging into the victim’s connections with the sheriff’s department. You can count on Eve to get to the bottom of it and look for the truth no matter the consequences to her personally, professionally, physically, or to her possessions.
We get to see more into Eve’s family and how she fits with them. Then there is her relationship with her parents that forms her opinions and affects her reasoning at times. So, when she is continually asked about a television series on her life, she completely shuts it down, not just because it would interfere with her job but because she doesn’t want her parents to be rewarded or make any money off her story.
The Case
After a fire in the canyon, bones are found in a back yard. Eve and Duncan are assigned to figure out if the bones are human, who the victim is, and how they get there. The bones turn out to be a young woman who was reported missing a few years back. The victim was also raped and given a run around by a sheriff’s deputy who has been promoted since then. Eve and Duncan pursue justice for the young lady who turns to their own department and colleagues.
Five Stars
I absolutely love this series. Eve is such a powerful character. She is flawed yet righteous and has loads of courage. Lee Goldberg really knows how to spin a tale. I love the little bits where he adds things from his other series. There is just enough Hollywood to make the area and people realistic. Bone Canyon is completely fantastic in every way. My rating is five stars, and I can’t wait for the next Eve Ronin book to come out.
First Book in Series
Check out the interview with Lee Goldberg from a couple of years ago HERE.
Thank you for dropping by! I hope you enjoyed this review of Bone Canyon by Lee Goldberg.
Until the next time,
About Lee Goldberg
Goldberg broke into television with a freelance script sale to Spenser: For Hire. Since then, his TV writing & producing credits have covered a wide variety of genres, including sci-fi (seaQuest), cop shows (Hunter, The Glades), martial arts (Martial Law), whodunits (Diagnosis Murder, Nero Wolfe), the occult (She-Wolf of London), kid’s shows (R.L. Stine’s The Nightmare Room), T&A (Baywatch, She Spies), comedy (Monk) clip shows (The Best TV Shows That Never Were) and total crap (The Highwayman, The New Adventures of Flipper).
He’s written and produced TV shows in Canada (Murphy’s Law, Cobra, Missing), England (Stick With Me Kid, She Wolf of London) and Germany (Fast Track: No Limits). His mystery writing for television has earned him two Edgar Award nominations from the Mystery Writers of America.
His two careers, novelist and TV writer, merged when he wrote the eight books in the Diagnosis Murder series of original novels, based on the hit CBS TV mystery that he also wrote and produced. He followed that up by writing fifteen bestselling novels based on Monk, another TV show that he worked on. His Monk novels have been translated and published in Germany, Poland, Thailand, Japan, Turkey, and many other countries.
In addition to his writing, he’s worked as an international TV development expert and consulting producer for production companies and major networks in Canada, France, Germany, Spain, Sweden, Belgium, and the Netherlands.
But perhaps he’s best known for his pioneering work mapping the human genome and negotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement.
Goldberg lives in Los Angeles with his wife and his daughter and still sleeps in Man From U.N.C.L.E. pajamas.
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