Reviews

Dead Time by Eleanor Taylor Bland

jenmulsow's review

adventurous mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

lauraellis's review

4.0

I love Eleanor Taylor Bland’s Marti McAllister mysteries, set in a large town (90,000) called Lincoln Prairie outside of Chicago. She is African-American, a recent widow, and the mother of a teenage girl and (at the time this book starts) a 9 or 10 year old boy, and partner to a grumpy white man who thinks women cops are (or should be) maternal and guided by intuition. I’ve read a couple mysteries in this series previously, but this is the first one—where she is cautiously beginning to date a paramedic named Ben.

I really like this series.

julieb's review

4.0

“You do your job. You do it right. You don't take shortcuts, you don't go home early, you don't leave anything undone. You build a solid case against them. You bring them in. You don't let them get away with it. And that's all you can do.”
~ Eleanor Taylor Bland, Dead Time

Kinda like Eleanor Taylor Bland's writing. Great first book. I'll be reading the next.

readermonica's review

medium-paced

• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.0

3 1/2 stars rounding up to 4

I enjoyed this start to the series and will hopefully continue on to book 2 soon. Yet another series that I took way to long to discover and pick up for myself.

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abarger89's review

3.0

This is the first book in the Marti MacAlister series.
Detective Marti MacAlister and her partner Vik investigate the death of a woma at the Cramer Hotel. I really liked the character of Marti. Mystery series featuring a black female detective as the lead character are unfortunately few and far between, which is what makes this series particularly special.