Whilst I did really enjoy this one and found it a refreshing change of pace from other police procedurals, it also felt a bit slower and maybe more detailed orientated than I'd like. I'm too used to TV crime shows and their magic results in an hr and crimes solved in 2 days where as this felt like quite an independent look into the inner workings in a more realistic way. I liked the characters and found them well written and realistic and found myself very fascinated by the chain of events and how things got solved. It felt more like a true crime podcast than a fiction which also worked for me

Taking Candy
by Robert Lalonde
WOW!! I loved this book. Full of serious tense, and a real jaw-dropper. Two detectives worked on two cases and then compared their cases. The ending tied this book up into an amazingly great ending.

Taking Candy is a true crime mystery. Detective Scappini has spent many years on the force, dedicating his career to putting criminals away. When a local Judge is gunned down in cold blood he is put on the case. He is hot on the trail of Lester who has a record of killing in cold blood not to leave anyone behind who can identify him. Murders are happening left and right in Toronto and all leads point to Lester, a hired gunman who has zero problem doing the job he is hired to do, but his biggest mistake all starts with his now girlfriend Chrissy.

Detective Scappini hooks up with Detective Hall and Detective Brill who are partners in another department to help see if the break in and murders that they are investigating have anything to do with his Judge case. Time and time again the crime scene is the same, again leading to Lester. When the three detectives decide that they are sick of the senseless killings and have nothing but gut instincts to go on they take matters into their own hands. But do they have the right killer?

I really enjoyed this story, the flow of the characters were great, the detail of the events spot on, the in-between happenings to lead up to all the events worked great and right up until the last chapter I could not put this book down and binge read it. However it is the last chapter that throws me for a loop. I want to know more, I want some more information as to how the story came to this end. That is my reasoning for the 4 stars. I am looking forward to more books from Robert Lalonde.

I was given an ARC of Taking Candy for my honest review.

An interesting approach to presenting true crime in novel format. The perspective of the reporter added an extra angle and kept the pace strong.