That's the really hard part of this series. I want to know who is involved in the Slasher and see them all get what's coming to them. I didn't ever have to work out who was talking. Charlie David's voice works for both Shaw and North. They are stupid towards each other sometimes, but they have an 8 year history they're untangling. Shaw and North are both good people with great chemistry.

The dialogue in general is really well written.

it's clever and funny and lightens up otherwise confrontational scenes. Shaw and North have some of the best banter among characters ever. Both times I came back to the story because. Twice I took a break and listened to another book entirely. I found listening to the story hard because it was so edge of your seat on every plot strand we've had so far. Others (hi, Jadon) are good people who do pretty consistently good things. Some of the recurring characters aren't especially likable (I appreciate Shaw's loyalty to her, but I can't find anything to like in Pari), but they do provide color. Gregory Ashe's detectives work on bloody, gritty, messy mysteries that touch the lives of its detectives in bloody, gritty, messy ways. He made us wait three books in Hazard and Somerset. At least in Borealis, we get to see the two break through to an actual relationship at the end of book 2. His work reminds me more of Marshall Thomas's Boystown Mystery series with a serious overlay of angst-ridden slow burn between its detectives. Gregory Ashe doesn't write warm fluffy hot chocolate cozies with romance. Their investigation puts them at odds with the police who are working the same case, and in that conflict, North and Shaw find threads leading back to the West End Slasher - the serial killer who almost took Shaw’s life in an alley, seven years before.Īs the web of an ancient conspiracy comes to light, Shaw is driven to find answers, and North faces what might be his last chance to tell Shaw how he really feels. As North and Shaw probe for answers, they find that they are not the only ones who have come looking for the truth about Shep Collins. When Shep’s body turns up at the halfway house, the search for a missing person becomes the search for a murderer.

When he disappears, however, dark truths begin to emerge about Shep’s past: his string of failed relationships, a problem with disappearing money, and his work, years before, as one of the foremost proponents of conversion therapy. Shep Collins runs a halfway house for LGBTQ kids and is a prominent figure in St. They’re also ready to go back to dodging their feelings for each other, with neither man ready to deal with the powerful emotions the Matty Fennmore case stirred up.Įverything is getting back to normal when their secretary asks for help: her girlfriend’s boss has gone missing. After a recent case with a treacherous client, North and Shaw are ready to go back to work building Borealis Investigations.

Triangulation by Gregory Ashe