Good Sunday morning, and Happy Easter everyone! I hope this finds you doing well.

This week���s read was by an author I���ve recently discovered, Alafair Burke, and the book was Missing Justice. While the author was new to me, the book isn���t recent, having been published over ten years ago. Nonetheless, I really liked it, and of course, I read it out of order. This was the second book in the series, so I���ll be reading the first one next week. I never seem to do these things in sequence���

Anyway, in this story, Deputy District Attorney Samantha Kincaid, finds herself newly promoted and hot on the trail of a missing person���s case, a prominent female judge in the city of Portland, OR. Initially everyone assumed the judge would turn up safe and sound. But when that didn���t happen, authorities started looking at the husband, and then at the lover, and then at a disgruntled letter-writer, and then���well, holy cow. When Samantha finally figures out who was responsible for the judge���s demise, she finds herself the next target on the killer���s list.

Missing Justice had a perfect mix of suspense, humor, and intrigue, and I���m happy to have found another great author. There were a lot of twists and turns in this story, and it had me guessing until the end. So now I���ll have to back up and get started on the first book in the series; I hope I like that one as much. And I hope you do, too! So give Missing Justice a try, and let me know what you think. ���Til next week, happy reading! :-)