Mini-Reviews of Books #51…

Crystal Blue Murder. Saralyn Richard, author (2022). This third novel in the “Detective Parrott” series (Murder in the One Percent and Palette for Love and Murder were the first two) builds on the previous ones but can stand alone. I’ve been waiting for it for some time, and I was not disappointed. It’s an excellent mystery, crime story, and police procedural with thriller elements that’s better than the first two novels, and that says a lot because those first two set the bar rather high.

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