A review by lauraellis
Dead Time by Eleanor Taylor Bland

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.