Cold Path
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4.3 • 18 Ratings
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Publisher Description
What's done is done. Until Bodhi unearths a long-buried secret.
When a corpse surfaces during an archaeological dig, Bodhi King’s in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Bodhi tags along as his girlfriend’s plus-one at a convention of small-town police chiefs. While Bette is learning the latest in law enforcement advancements, he plans to meditate in the resort’s Japanese garden and hike its mountain trails.
Instead, he finds himself helping an archaeology professor determine how, why, and when someone buried a woman near the cabin of a post-Civil War sharecropper. As the circumstances around the dead woman’s demise come to light, the secrets of the past threaten to unleash destruction in the present.
The cold case heats up to a boiling point when his old flame joins the team and a murderer strikes.
Cold Path is the fifth book in the Bodhi King forensic thriller series by USA Today bestselling author Melissa F. Miller.
Customer Reviews
Fabulous
This is one exciting story as always.Bodhi is an unbelievable character that you love from the beginning. Plenty of action to make you want to read more. JackieT
A well written mystery
Cold Path by Melissa Miller
This book had me drawn in right from the beginning. We are introduced to Dr. Davinia Jones who is an interesting character. She discovers an old Iron casket containing a well preserved female body at the Jonah Bell farm site. She believes it is from the Reconstruction Era or 1800’s. The woman has a broach which is an identical design to a necklace that she inherited from her mother and grandmother.
I really liked the insertion of the letters from Louisa Anne Rutherford to Isaiah Bell. They help describe what was going on in the 1800’s.
Bodhi King along with Bette Clarke, his girlfriend arrive at a conference center in Alabama and he takes a walk in garden and gets drawn into the mystery of the iron casket when he meets Davinia Jones. She needs a forensic Pathologist which he just happens to be. Meanwhile, Bette is registering for the small city police chief conference and meets up with Fred Bolton a fellow police chief who has brought his girl friend, Eliza Rollins who is also a former classmate of Bodhi’s as well as being a forensic pathologist. We have met these characters before but now get more character development. Bodhi’s actions are limited by his budda beliefs so Eliza takes over as the doer and ask forgiveness later. We also get more insights into each couples’ relationships.
While Fred and Bette attend the conference, Bodhi and Eliza get involved with the iron casket as forensic pathologists lending a helping hand.
The story line is predictable and the action is straight forward and logical with Chief Dexter putting up road blocks to assist Sully and his grandmother Mrs. Sullivan, a Rutherford descendant. There are no confusing twists or turns but Mrs.Sullivan just happens to be in charge of the Family Foundation over seeing Davinia’s archaeological site at Jonah Bell’s Farm.
I also found the dialogue to be natural and suited to each character.
I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book in the Bodhi King series.