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Gravedigger

The Rayburn Mysteries, Book 1

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Hunting a killer is easy. Learning to love is hard.

Josephine 'Jo' Rayburn has no luck with love. Between the demands of her job as a homicide detective, finding the perfect yarn for her knitting projects, and her nosy family, she doesn't have time to find her happily ever after, nor does she really believe it exists. Until she's assigned to the Gravedigger task force where she meets Rhysian 'Rhys' Harrison, the sexy Coroner's assistant.

Rhys Harrison thought he had found love with the perfect woman. But his parents' death forced him to choose between his fiancée and caring for his brother, he chose his brother. His only regret, the medical degree he abandoned to work in the Coroner's office. When the Gravedigger leaves his latest victim at the gates of a cemetery, Rhys and Jo are thrown together, her prickly personality interests him, but it's her deeply hidden romantic side that captivates him.

After one of the task force members is shot, Rhys's fears of losing Jo, like he's lost so much already, threaten to rip them apart. Can she convince him that love is worth having no matter the risk? Or will he play it safe, leaving before his heart becomes too attached?

**Previously published through Soul Mate Publishing. Minor changes.**

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Loved the narration from Meredith McGlinchey

Jo is a strong female detective who takes no rubbish. Tough and with an heart of gold. A case that she is working on is for a man who digs up the bodies of women and then returns them later. Rhys works for the coroner's office , when Jo and Rhys meet there is attraction is mutual.

We have murder, mystery and romance, perfect.

Gravedigger

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This is the first in a series where we meet a feisty police detective and her pathology assistant hunk. There is quite a lot of backstory and scene setting for our main characters and so the mystery is more sketchy than satisfying. We learn of cop humour and police procedure as well as departmental politics. Our heroine has a compolicated family set up and our hero a simpler set, but more demanding relationships. There is action both inside and outside the bedroom so I have to give trigger warnings of swearing and descriptions of sexual intercourse.
The narrator can distinguish male and female voices, but I found it hard to distinguish some of the characters within each gender. Not the narrator's fault, but sound levels were inconsistent and I found this irritating.
I can see how this is a good set-up for more of these main characters, but a lot of the "will they, won't they" tension has been removed.

I received a free copy and am leaving this review voluntarily.

Adult romance amongst police procedural mystery.

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