A review by beastreader
The Ways of the Dead by Neely Tucker

3.0

I did enjoy this book. The grittiness of the murder case was what drew me in. Also, the fact that this story was drawn from a true crime murder in the 1990s known as the Princeton Place murders was fascinating. Not that the murders are great but I always like to see where an author's imagination goes to when they write a story based on real life facts. Which I thought by the way Mr. Tucker did a good job of writing this book. HIs background as a journalist helped. He got all of the important details down. Which I never once was like "Ok, so what is missing or when am I going to get to the good part".

My issue was that while the beginning of the story was good, it kind of slowed down in the middle but picked up again by the end. I liked Sully and do look forward to reading more books featuring him. I just hope that all of the secondary characters get more interesting. Again this book was a nice showing for a new crime series.