Gone for Good

Thank you to Minotaur Books for gifting me a review copy of Gone for Good by Joanna Schaffhausen!

Ooh I love a good mystery, and this is the first in a new series about Detective Annalisa Vega who is investigating a Chicago case that is supposed to be a cold case. 20 years ago women were being ritually murdered, followed by the killer sending love letters in to the local paper.

There have been no more of these killings in all these years until an amateur sleuth goes poking around and winds up dead.

Detective Vega has a connection to the Lovelorn Killer from all those years ago, so being thrown back into this case is dredging up all sorts of issues from the past.

Joanna Schaffhausen is amazing at writing bad-ass, smart, women detectives and if you haven't checked out her Ellery Hathaway series, you really should. I'm thrilled that she's started this new series, and it comes out on August 10, so make sure you preorder it now!

Synopsis:

Gone For Good is the first in a new mystery series from award-winning author Joanna Schaffhausen, featuring Detective Annalisa Vega, in which a cold case heats up.

The Lovelorn Killer murdered seven women, ritually binding them and leaving them for dead before penning them gruesome love letters in the local papers. Then he disappeared, and after twenty years with no trace of him, many believe that he's gone for good.

Not Grace Harper. A grocery store manager by day, at night Grace uses her snooping skills as part of an amateur sleuth group. She believes the Lovelorn Killer is still living in the same neighborhoods that he hunted in, and if she can figure out how he selected his victims, she will have the key to his identity.

Detective Annalisa Vega lost someone she loved to the killer. Now she's at a murder scene with the worst kind of déjà vu: Grace Harper lies bound and dead on the floor, surrounded by clues to the biggest murder case that Chicago homicide never solved. Annalisa has the chance to make it right and to heal her family, but first, she has to figure out what Grace knew―how to see a killer who may be standing right in front of you. This means tracing his steps back to her childhood, peering into dark corners she hadn't acknowledged before, and learning that despite everything the killer took, she has still so much more to lose.