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jenspageturners's review
4.0
Body In the Box is a police procedural that is a quick read. Personally, this is one of my favorite genres to read and watch.
Two seasoned detectives in Newark, NJ learn of a young boys body found in a shady part of town via a mysterious phone call. This place is run-down, home to homeless when it's warm enough and a place for drug dealing. The two detectives, Terry Jackson and Dino Cooper go to check out the scene. They find the body in a discarded Maytag box.
Dino is immediately brought back to his childhood. When Dino was a young boy, a neighbor boy disappeared and was never found. This boy reminds Dino of his old neighbor, but it couldn't be. But when Dino finds out the older brother of the missing boy from his childhood lives in the area, things get a little more interesting. Dino is a somewhat lonely divorcee (a couple times over) and is playing the field until he finds the one.
Terry is a man who went into the police force despite his family's encouragement to go to medical school, like his father. Because of this, he and his father are not very close. Terry has a wife, Tulia and a teenage son, Jeffrey. They used to be happy, but it seems work is getting in the way lately and this case is no exception. The Chief has a lot of pressure on the detectives to bring in the person responsible.
So enter Rebecca Everhart, a new detective to the area who has had previous success solving cases like the one at hand. She's smart and cute and Dino immediately falls for her. She's not so sure she wants to get involved with someone at work though, it's one of her rules. Rebecca is an outsider so she sees things a little differently than Dino and Terry and may be the only one able to see the truth in this case. That is if she doesn't let her feelings for Dino get in the way.
This book ties together the different lives of the people who make up a city. There are your blue collar workers- the police, the homeless, and the Russian community (the three big groups). They all have a place to help solve this murder.
This book wasn't a huge mind-twister but enjoyable enough. I found myself liking the characters and the pace of the story. I look forward to reading more in the series as they come out. Sometimes it's nice not to have a book try so hard to be a crazy mind game, and that was this book to me.
Thank you to Joffe Books and NetGalley for my advance copy, it was my pleasure to provide an honest review!
Two seasoned detectives in Newark, NJ learn of a young boys body found in a shady part of town via a mysterious phone call. This place is run-down, home to homeless when it's warm enough and a place for drug dealing. The two detectives, Terry Jackson and Dino Cooper go to check out the scene. They find the body in a discarded Maytag box.
Dino is immediately brought back to his childhood. When Dino was a young boy, a neighbor boy disappeared and was never found. This boy reminds Dino of his old neighbor, but it couldn't be. But when Dino finds out the older brother of the missing boy from his childhood lives in the area, things get a little more interesting. Dino is a somewhat lonely divorcee (a couple times over) and is playing the field until he finds the one.
Terry is a man who went into the police force despite his family's encouragement to go to medical school, like his father. Because of this, he and his father are not very close. Terry has a wife, Tulia and a teenage son, Jeffrey. They used to be happy, but it seems work is getting in the way lately and this case is no exception. The Chief has a lot of pressure on the detectives to bring in the person responsible.
So enter Rebecca Everhart, a new detective to the area who has had previous success solving cases like the one at hand. She's smart and cute and Dino immediately falls for her. She's not so sure she wants to get involved with someone at work though, it's one of her rules. Rebecca is an outsider so she sees things a little differently than Dino and Terry and may be the only one able to see the truth in this case. That is if she doesn't let her feelings for Dino get in the way.
This book ties together the different lives of the people who make up a city. There are your blue collar workers- the police, the homeless, and the Russian community (the three big groups). They all have a place to help solve this murder.
This book wasn't a huge mind-twister but enjoyable enough. I found myself liking the characters and the pace of the story. I look forward to reading more in the series as they come out. Sometimes it's nice not to have a book try so hard to be a crazy mind game, and that was this book to me.
Thank you to Joffe Books and NetGalley for my advance copy, it was my pleasure to provide an honest review!