A Trail of Lies is the third in the Jazz Ramsey mystery series from national bestselling author Kylie Logan.
Jazz Ramsey is just getting used to the idea that her on-again-off-again beau, Nick, might actually be a permanent fixture, when she gets an alarming call in the middle of the night from his mother, Kim: there's a dead man in her backyard. Kim has a long history of drinking and a vivid imagination, so when Jazz's human remains detection dog, Wally, finds no evidence of a body, Jazz thinks she can breathe easy.
But when the body of a middle-aged man, Dan Mansfield, is discovered in a nearby park, and a photo of Nick and his mom is found in his pocket, Jazz has to admit that something isn't adding up. Kim claims not to know who Dan is, but the cops find out soon enough: he's a recently paroled convict who served thirty years for murder. And when Jazz traces his crime back to a bar fight with an antiques dealer, she ends up with more questions than answers.
Meanwhile, no one wants her poking around—not Nick's mom, nor the Motorcycle-riding ex-con she connects to Dan, nor Nick himself, who seems worried about Jazz's safety, but also about what she might find. But Jazz has never been one to take no for an answer, and she won't give up now—even if it means risking her own life.
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Kirkus
February 15, 2021
Hard living and alcohol add up to a nightmare for a woman with a checkered past. Jazz Ramsey is back in a relationship with her boyfriend, police officer Nick Kolesov, whose alcoholic mother, Kim, is a constant thorn in her side. Late one night Kim phones Jazz, claiming that Nick is dead in her yard. Even though no one is dead in the yard, Kim continues to maintain that she killed someone. While calming Kim down, Jazz discovers some old pictures that may prove the key to solving a murder, though not the one Kim thinks she committed. Nick, who's often called away to work cases, knows how unreliable his mother is. Jazz, though irritated, still feels some responsibility to investigate Kim's wild story, but Wally, the cadaver dog she's training when she's not working her administrative job at a girls school, doesn't alert in Kim's yard. When a body is found in a park, Jazz returns to Kim's backyard with her late father's retired tracking dog, Gus, who does alert, suggesting that a body was there after all. The identification of the dead man as one of Kim's many lovers and possibly Nick's father makes it harder for Jazz to ignore Kim's claims as alcohol-fueled dreams. Busy as she is at St. Catherine's Prep, she's determined to investigate, and when she uncovers a complicated web of lies, she gets death threats. The apparently levelheaded heroine makes some rash decisions en route to unmasking a surprising killer.COPYRIGHT(2021) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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Publisher's Weekly
March 29, 2021
Logan’s so-so third Jazz Ramsey mystery (after 2020’s The Secret of Bones) opens with Jazz, an assistant administrator at Cleveland’s St. Catherine’s School for Girls, waking up to an early morning call from Kim, the mother of her police detective boyfriend, Nick Kolesov. The woman, in an alcohol-fueled tirade, demands that Jazz come to her house immediately, because there’s a dead man in her yard. When Jazz can find no body, she puts Kim’s claims down to too much bourbon. However, when a convicted murderer recently released on parole is found dead in a park near Kim’s house, Jazz and the police begin to take an interest in Kim’s story. Between preparing for the school dance and training her Airedale pup, Wally, to become a cadaver dog, Jazz investigates and discovers a shocking secret that will change her life and Nick’s. Uneven pacing, one-dimensional characters, and doings at the school that serve merely as padding make this a lesser effort. Cozy readers who are fond of dogs should be somewhat satisfied. Agent: Gail Fortune, Talbot Fortune.
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