A review by missyjohnson
The Bitter Season by Tami Hoag

3.0

Good little escape to Minneapolis. Detective Liska has joined the cold case unit so that she can spend more time with her family. Kovac has a new partner as they investigate the murder of a U of M professor of Asian studies and his wife. The two cases are intertwined and in an interesting way. Liska is investigating the 25 year old murder of a detective in the sex crimes unit. Ted Duffy was shot while chopping wood in his backyard. Lucien Chamberlain and his wife were murdered with some of the samurai weapons from his own collection. His children, Charles and Diana become suspects. This is a fast read and moves along pretty quickly. The various characters are tied together well without big leaps of faith to get there. My only complaint is that Ms Hoag can be a little too graphic in some of their descriptions about attacks and murder. I think that the story would not have “lost anything” from leaving some of the gore out. Good storytelling and fun read.