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Graveyard Bay (Geneva Chase Crime Reporter Mysteries Book 3) Kindle Edition
Time is running out…
The nude bodies of a corrupt judge and a Jane Doe are found under the icy, black waters at Groward Bay Marina, chained to the prongs of a mammoth fork lift. A videotape points to Merlin Finn, a ruthless gang leader with a proclivity for bondage and S&M who had recently broken out of prison. In the videotape, he's wearing a black leather bondage mask.
With the newspaper she works for about to be sold and her job in jeopardy, journalist Geneva Chase investigates pill mills, crooked doctors, and a massive money laundering scheme in an attempt to identify the murdered woman and find the killer. Along the way, she finds herself working with a disgraced New York cop and a host of other unlikely characters with ties to the criminal underworld.
Geneva is clearly hot on the killer's trail, but when she is kidnapped and held at the mercy of the criminals she hoped to stop, it looks like her chance to uncover the darkness that has seeped through her hometown may be lost forever.
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherPoisoned Pen Press
- Publication dateSeptember 10, 2019
- File size2580 KB
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Readers who enjoy mysteries that dive into criminal underworlds are Kies' ideal audience; those who appreciate a down-but-never-out female lead should also be led to the tenacious Geneva Chase.
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- ASIN : B07VVSGNRB
- Publisher : Poisoned Pen Press (September 10, 2019)
- Publication date : September 10, 2019
- Language : English
- File size : 2580 KB
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- Print length : 301 pages
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About the author
Currently living on a barrier island on the coast of North Carolina, Thomas Kies has a long career working for newspapers and magazines, primarily in New England and New York. When he’s not writing mysteries, Thomas Kies is the President of the Carteret County Chamber of Commerce. H www.thomaskiesauthor.com
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This is not a book for the faint of heart. While Kies refrains from giving salacious details of the gruesome murders, even the bare-bones version makes me shiver. There’s also a tour (of sorts) in a torture chamber. So if that will be an issue for you, you might want to skip this one. But most people who read current crime thrillers won’t be overly shocked.
Kies’ background as a journalist shines. It’s obvious he knows the ins-and-outs of a newsroom, the constant pressure of deadlines, and the often-chaotic world of journalism. In high school, I briefly entertained the notion of becoming a journalist myself, and reading Graveyard Bay was both a trip down memory lane to the newsroom of my hometown’s newspaper and a good reminder of why I didn’t choose that career path.
Geneva’s newspaper has just been bought by Galley Media. All the Sheffield Post employees are tense, wondering if they’re going to lose their job shortly after the Christmas holiday. Kies does a great job creating tension between the old employees and the new owner, who has brought in a new editor. The editor, Lorraine, is thrilled by the developing “Graveyard Bay” murder story. The “nastier the death, the better the ink,” she proclaims to Geneva (chapter 8), as if the torture and murder of two humans is nothing more than a promotional gimmick.
The question of whether Geneva will be able to stand this new, cutthroat editor rumbles in the background throughout the book.
Geneva is a flawed but interesting and sympathetic character. Her career has almost been derailed by her excessive drinking. (The pressures of work, perhaps?) Others think she’s drunk herself out of other decent jobs. Even her retiring boss, Ben, reminds her that he took a chance on her.
But while her drinking is clearly a problem, it doesn’t dominate her personality. She’s a darned good investigator. She is also worried about being 40; she constantly compares her age to those around her, wondering if everyone in the newsroom is younger than her, and feeling a bit threatened when her ex-boyfriend dates a younger woman. Not that she’ll admit to feeling threatened, of course!
Geneva is a complex character. I really enjoyed reading her “voice” on the page. She’s a hard-nosed cynic with a cheeky side. Her catty thoughts about the new editor, Lorraine, are snarky and funny. But she also cares deeply for her “daughter” Caroline.
In the past, she’s worked with a shadowy organization called Friends of Lydia, which works to free people from trafficking, and two of these “friends” appear in Graveyard Bay. Though she never says it, she maintains her ties to John and Shana partially because she cares about women in trafficking.
This is a twist-filled journey that takes Geneva to some strange places. A torture chamber. A dominatrix’s workplace. An isolated house guarded by a man with an AR-15. A pill mill. An alley outside a drug dealer’s house. Like I said, it’s not for the faint of heart.
The one thing that diminished my enjoyment was the S&M references. I understand that Kies (through Geneva) is highlighting the difference between what Shana, a dominatrix, does for a living and what happens in the torture chamber; one is for pleasure between consenting adults, and the other is for one person to inflict main on another. I also understand that the details into Shana’s profession and background are partially to develop her character.
But this part of the storyline seemed distracting, as though it didn’t quite fit into the overall story. Frankly, it didn’t interest me nearly as much as the investigation into the murders and the area’s opium epidemic.
Overall, though, this was a good novel. I thoroughly enjoyed reading Geneva’s opinions and I would read another book in this series. 4 stars
Disclaimer: I received an ARC from Netgalley and Poisoned Pen Press in exchange for an honest review.
Reviewed in the United States on August 5, 2023
Genie is still in the sights of the Tolbonov brothers, the newspaper may get sold due to lost advertising dollars, and Genie is investigating some ruthless murders as well as some drug deaths. She continues to rely on Shana Neese and John Singleton for help (from book 2). Of course, Mike Dillon, police is also a great confidant.
Genie may be on to a new adventure, but she is still digging deep into the scary world of murder!
I just finished reading an Advance Reader Copy of the third book in the series, Graveyard Bay, in preparation for an interview prior to the release of the book. Having not read the first two books in the series, Random Road and Darkness Lane, I bought them and devoured them before reading Graveyard Bay.
Devoured is definitely the right word as I felt consumed by the words and unable to stop reading until the last page was read of each of the three books. Suffice it to say not much else got done until the books were finished and then, with a sigh of sadness and that emptiness that happens when you leave a place you love wondering when you will get to go back, I realized there was no fourth book to dive right into.
Geneva Chase is as real as a fictional character can get. I felt a kinship to her in many ways as her imperfections, failures and internal dialogue bring her to the lowest of the lows and the highest of the highs. Her flaws, perhaps not manifested exactly, are inside all of us as is her aching humanity that picks her up time after time to try again and be the best of who she is not just for herself but for those she loves as well.
What I love about each of the books are the pieces of reality interspaced with the, is that really true, could that be true, no way that could be true, fictionalized elements of places you may know or think you know. Thomas Kies is masterful in his handling of truth and fiction and the lines blur to such a thin line at moments I found myself questioning what I knew and what I thought I knew about an area I had lived in for years. I was on the edge of my seat, on a roller coaster ride of emotions. Never once did I ever figure out what was going to happen next exactly as he wrote.
I don’t know what is next for Thomas Kies after his latest book, Graveyard Bay, comes out in September, 2019, but I know that I will be eagerly awaiting each book he writes so that I can be transported, once again, to places that I can go that only truly special books can take me. Laura Steward, iHeart Radio Host, #1 International Bestselling Author, Strategist and Ardent Book Reader.
Reviewed in the United States on September 10, 2019
I just finished reading an Advance Reader Copy of the third book in the series, Graveyard Bay, in preparation for an interview prior to the release of the book. Having not read the first two books in the series, Random Road and Darkness Lane, I bought them and devoured them before reading Graveyard Bay.
Devoured is definitely the right word as I felt consumed by the words and unable to stop reading until the last page was read of each of the three books. Suffice it to say not much else got done until the books were finished and then, with a sigh of sadness and that emptiness that happens when you leave a place you love wondering when you will get to go back, I realized there was no fourth book to dive right into.
Geneva Chase is as real as a fictional character can get. I felt a kinship to her in many ways as her imperfections, failures and internal dialogue bring her to the lowest of the lows and the highest of the highs. Her flaws, perhaps not manifested exactly, are inside all of us as is her aching humanity that picks her up time after time to try again and be the best of who she is not just for herself but for those she loves as well.
What I love about each of the books are the pieces of reality interspaced with the, is that really true, could that be true, no way that could be true, fictionalized elements of places you may know or think you know. Thomas Kies is masterful in his handling of truth and fiction and the lines blur to such a thin line at moments I found myself questioning what I knew and what I thought I knew about an area I had lived in for years. I was on the edge of my seat, on a roller coaster ride of emotions. Never once did I ever figure out what was going to happen next exactly as he wrote.
I don’t know what is next for Thomas Kies after his latest book, Graveyard Bay, comes out in September, 2019, but I know that I will be eagerly awaiting each book he writes so that I can be transported, once again, to places that I can go that only truly special books can take me. Laura Steward, iHeart Radio Host, #1 International Bestselling Author, Strategist and Ardent Book Reader.