The Arizona Triangle, Sydney Graves
The Arizona Triangle, Sydney Graves
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The Arizona Triangle
A Jo Bailen Detective Novel

Author: Sydney Graves

Narrator: Stacy Gonzalez

Unabridged: 10 hr 51 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/22/2024

Synopsis

In the vein of the bestselling California noirs of Sue Grafton and Sara Gran, a whodunnit about loyalty, love, and the legacy of trauma featuring a hardboiled, queer private eye whose latest case takes her deep into her own complicated past.On the cusp of forty, Justine Bailen, better known as Jo, works for an all-female detective agency based in Tucson, Arizona. While staking out a cheating spouse, she learns that her long-estranged best friend from childhood, Rose, is missing, and that Rose’s mother wants to hire Jo to find her. This case is all kinds of wrong for Jo, but she has no choice but to head back to her hometown, an hour north and a world away from Tucson.Back in Delphi, she learns that her high school boyfriend, Tyler—who is probably part of the reason her friendship with Rose went south—is the cop assigned to the case. It doesn’t take long for Jo to realize that he’s all mixed up in it, too. To have any hope of learning the truth about Rose’s disappearance, Jo must finally face the demons she thought she’d escaped.

About Sydney Graves

Sydney Graves is a pseudonym for Kate Christensen, an Arizona native and the author of eight novels, most recently Welcome Home, Stranger. Her fourth novel, The Great Man, won the 2008 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. She has also published two food-centric memoirs, Blue Plate Special and How to Cook a Moose, which won the 2016 Maine Literary Award for Memoir. Her essays, reviews, and short pieces have appeared in a wide variety of publications and anthologies. She lives with her husband and their two dogs in Taos, New Mexico.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jen on October 21, 2024

This started off strong and I was completely invested in the story! I love Sue Grafton so I was excited by the premise and the comparison. I could kind of see the comparison, but only in the strong female detective role. The case was good and the character development in the book interesting. Howeve......more

Goodreads review by Laura on October 20, 2024

I really enjoyed the Arizona setting and the unique voice and character of Jo Bailen. The writing gave a strong sense of place and there were many characters that felt like likely suspects. I didn’t like the ending because it was impossible to see coming (yes, that can be a good thing but in this ca......more

Goodreads review by dianas_books_cars_coffee on October 21, 2024

2.5 rounded up This is the start of a new series about private investigator Justine Bailen, better known as Jo, who works at an all female detective agency in Tucson, AZ. In this 1st book, Jo is working a case about a cheating spouse when she gets called in to work another case. Her estranged childho......more

Goodreads review by Jennifer on November 15, 2024

Meh. I expected more of Kate Christensen, who is Sydney Graves. The writing was hard boiled, which was fine, but the mystery was only half baked, with lots of lead up to a quick climax where the murderer was no one you could have guessed. In addition, much of the murderous motivation centered around......more

Goodreads review by bookishblondegirl on December 03, 2024

Sadly, I didn’t end up caring much for this one. I am a sucker for a good ‘detective returns to small hometown to solve crime’ setup, so my interest was piqued by The Arizona Triangle. My interest began to wane, however, not too far into the book. The mystery was really meandering. Ultimately, I fel......more

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