March 1, 2018
As the Hannah Ives series approaches its twentieth anniversary, it's showing no signs of slowing down. Hannah, a breast-cancer survivor and amateur sleuth, takes a job researching the effects of marijuana usage for a Maryland state senator. Her research takes her to Denver?not a bad perc?but when she arrives in Colorado and almost immediately plunges into a murder investigation, she kind of wishes she'd just stayed home. A woman who's seen darkness in her own life but who hasn't let it change who she is, Hannah is a sympathetic and likable protagonist, the kind of person we might like spending time with if she weren't always risking her life to solve a mystery. That said, the mystery she solves here is a very entertaining one?very personal to Hannah, too?and its solution is both surprising and memorable.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2018, American Library Association.)