Innocence Road by Laura Griffin

Unabashedly a one-sit read! I flipped open my Kindle and didn't stop until I reached the end. The plot is perfection, the pace is exemplary, and Laura Griffin? Stellar! Innocence Road has been marked as one of my favorites. I wanted to cite a series name; however, there isn't one attached to the title. With the familiarity of her characters intertwining throughout Griffin's many works, it all feels wonderfully connected. Releasing in November of this year, Innocence Road will have you grabbing a cozy blanket and settling in. 

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Detective Leanne Everhart swore she’d never go back to her hometown near Marfa, Texas—but she returns when her brother needs her, only to find a town in need too, still torn apart by a decades-old crime.

Leanne Everhart knows women have something to fear in her artsy hometown, especially so if they’re not rich, white locals. Returning to town after her father’s death, she sees the ugliest sides of an area that draws people for its severe, untamed natural landscape.

While her department faces mounting backlash over a recent wrongful conviction in the long-ago murder case of a popular local teenager—which is now unsolved—Leanne is called to a fresh crime scene at the edge of the desert. A nameless woman was found murdered, with no clues as to her identity. As Leanne digs into the crime scene evidence, she grows convinced this latest murder case is linked with the local teenager’s murder. And to multiple cold cases, all unnamed female victims, that have all been shelved by her department without leads.

Now, with conflicted loyalties and without allies, Leanne must hunt down a serial killer, one who’s been preying on local women for two decades, growing bolder and more ruthless with every strike.

*Thank you to @Berkley via @Netgalley for sharing this title with me.

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