When answering an add for a vintage dining room table, McKenzie gets lost and finds himself stopping to help a woman who is sitting on a curb sobbing; inside the house is the body of her boyfriend, bashed in the head & bled out.

When the cops arrive, the young rookie slaps the woman around attempting to get a confession, so McKenzie intervenes....

The DA, running for Senate, plans to make an example of the woman.... until one of her other violent ex-boyfriends turns up & gets nasty.... and then McKenzie uncovers a string of dead ex-boyfriends, who somehow died of a combination of alcohol & carbon monoxide poisoning.

I did not figure out who murdered the current dead boyfriend, but I did figure out who killed the others,

Again a riveting story with many a place to skim over. ( )

An enjoyable mystery.

Right up until they put him in jail, McKenzie thought the cops were kidding. After all, he did them a favor by stopping a rookie cop from roughing up a distraught woman at a murder scene. But the next thing Mac knows he’s in jail, missing an important date with his girlfriend and reliving nightmares he thought he’d finally left behind – and he’s vowing payback for all of it. If that means sticking his nose into a crime investigation, well, he’s done it before.

A Minnesota author he does a great job of describing the attitudes and attributes of the various Twin Cities suburbs and neighborhoods. ( )

Local (to me) author, similar to John Sandford but not as hardhitting. Good story line, keeps you very interested. ( )