The Long Cold Winter

Wow that is how you get it done. Very good detective homicide case. This is the second book in the series. This series is a little different because so far each book covers the same homicide department but features different detectives. This detective I felt had a lot in common with Harry Bosch in s......more

After reading some of the reviews for this book I was hesitant to give it a try. It sounded kind of depressing from the reviews and, quite frankly, I thought would end up being a disappointing read after enjoying the first book I read by this author. But having loved The Side Hustle, the first book......more

*Full disclosure up front - I've written books with Colin Conway, and he's my friend. That doesn't matter, though -- I'd love this book if Snuffleupagus wrote it. It has everything I like in a gritty procedural (although it also reads like a good first person PI novel, as the protagonist is working......more

The Long Cold Winter by Colin Conway A 509 Crime Story #2 Grief is a miserable beast that is not easy to tame. Homicide Detective Dallas Nash is not really ready to return to duty solving homicide cases after losing his wife BUT his sense of duty and commitment to the team sees him back at his desk ju......more

Great, complex, crime story - but it was almost ruined for me by the amount of writing that focused on the detective's grieving process for his dead wife and how it almost made him unable to function. Over and over, he went into the bedroom, pulled some more of her clothes out of the closet, and ins......more