A Trail of Lies
A Mystery
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- £9.99
Publisher Description
A Trail of Lies is the third in the Jazz Ramsey mystery series from national bestselling author Kylie Logan.
Jazz Ramsey is just getting used to the idea that her on-again-off-again beau, Nick, might actually be a permanent fixture, when she gets an alarming call in the middle of the night from his mother, Kim: there’s a dead man in her backyard. Kim has a long history of drinking and a vivid imagination, so when Jazz’s human remains detection dog, Wally, finds no evidence of a body, Jazz thinks she can breathe easy.
But when the body of a middle-aged man, Dan Mansfield, is discovered in a nearby park, and a photo of Nick and his mom is found in his pocket, Jazz has to admit that something isn’t adding up. Kim claims not to know who Dan is, but the cops find out soon enough: he’s a recently paroled convict who served thirty years for murder. And when Jazz traces his crime back to a bar fight with an antiques dealer, she ends up with more questions than answers.
Meanwhile, no one wants her poking around—not Nick’s mom, nor the Motorcycle-riding ex-con she connects to Dan, nor Nick himself, who seems worried about Jazz’s safety, but also about what she might find. But Jazz has never been one to take no for an answer, and she won’t give up now—even if it means risking her own life.
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Logan's so-so third Jazz Ramsey mystery (after 2020's The Secret of Bones) opens with Jazz, an assistant administrator at Cleveland's St. Catherine's School for Girls, waking up to an early morning call from Kim, the mother of her police detective boyfriend, Nick Kolesov. The woman, in an alcohol-fueled tirade, demands that Jazz come to her house immediately, because there's a dead man in her yard. When Jazz can find no body, she puts Kim's claims down to too much bourbon. However, when a convicted murderer recently released on parole is found dead in a park near Kim's house, Jazz and the police begin to take an interest in Kim's story. Between preparing for the school dance and training her Airedale pup, Wally, to become a cadaver dog, Jazz investigates and discovers a shocking secret that will change her life and Nick's. Uneven pacing, one-dimensional characters, and doings at the school that serve merely as padding make this a lesser effort. Cozy readers who are fond of dogs should be somewhat satisfied.
