Racism at its very worst.

Raymond Donne, a teacher, is shocked to find that a fellow teacher, Maurice Joseph, has been killed by an arrow while attending to his hydroponic plants on the roof of the school. Detective James Royce is the lead investigator. He, too, is shocked that someone would use an arrow to kill someone in this brutal way.

Allison Rogers is Raymond's live-in girlfriend and a journalist. She's the first one to break the story of the murder of Maurice. At the same time, Allison is running a story about a young boy who has run away from the White Supremacists. Somehow, the killing and this young man are linked but to prove it is going to take some very intense investigating.

I found the use of slang annoying in the novel. I know it’s how people speak, but it grated every time I came across its use. The characters are almost too over-the-top, and I can't say that I particularly liked any of them and the only reason I carried on reading until the end was because I found the storyline intriguing. It never ceases to amaze me how violent the far right is. It always makes me wonder why we call them the far right and not terrorists because that’s what they are.

Rony

Elite Reviewing Group received a copy of the book to review.

How Mojo was killed- with an arrow- is as puzzling to his friend Raymond Donne as the fact that he was killed. Donne is a former cop turned teacher who can't keep away from solving mysteries. Turns out that there was a lot more going on in Mojo's life, especially including White Natonalists, that Donne knew. Donne's love interest Allison and his friend Edgar make good compatriots. The mystery of what happened isn't too twisty and this was a fast easy read for the genre. Thanks to Netgalley for the ARC. I'd missed the earlier books in this series and this was fine as a standalone for me.

Well written thriller. Great plot and character development. I received an arc from the publisher and Netgalley and this is my unbiased review..

I absolutely love Raymond Donne! He’s like a naughty little boy who just can’t quite let go of one being a cop. He just can’t keep his nose out of things, and admittedly a lot of unfortunate stuff does also seem to come his way. I don’t think he will ever give up teaching and go back to being a cop, I think he really likes having the best of both worlds as he does seem to get. It’s been really good watching him evolve as a person and the ending to this book is certainly defining and I will be very interested in seeing what happens to him next.

The main character,Ray,is an attractive,quirky figure and works well in the story. An ex-cop,now a teacher,he is unable to keep away from trying to solve cases which seem to keep finding him out. His continuing links to the police,not least through his uncle who holds a senior position,enable him to keep interfering. This is one such case. It us an unusual and well contrived tale which keeps you reading until the end which I found to be over- descriptive and disappointing as a climax.

A good and quite fun thriller. I thoroughly enjoyed this read. I would definitely read more from this author x