The Corpse with the Granite Heart by Cathy Ace

Series Name: Cait Morgan Mystery #11
Genre: Traditional
Release: November 2021

Welsh Canadian criminal psychologist Cait Morgan, and her retired-cop husband Bud Anderson, are in London, England, to meet their friend John Silver’s freshly minted fiancée, the daughter of a recently deceased Shakespeare aficionado, and captain of industry. The trip is supposed to be filled with art galleries, good food, and Christmas spirit. However, an untimely death at a posh dinner party threatens to send shock waves through the upper strata of London society.

Cait and Bud’s desire to seek out the truth is blocked by a shadowy figure who’s been tasked with keeping the incident hush-hush, but – as the body-count rises – the investigation develops a dreadful momentum.

This is the eleventh Cait Morgan Mystery, and it finds our usually unstoppable duo running up against the immoveable machinery of power. . .with tragic consequences.

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Dru’s Short Musing:
This is another great addition to the Cait Morgan series. Bud’s friend invites them to his London place and moments later, someone dies. Was it murder? Well once Cait gets a handle on things it becomes even more of a case, and I enjoyed watching it all play out. The author knows how to tell a story that was both gripping and riveting. The mystery kept me in suspense, and I love how the author had me twisted all around trying to figure out who is doing what to whom. As the story progressed, we learn a few things about Cait’s past as well as the pool of suspects who all had a motive or two of seeing the victim’s demise. When all was said and done, it was the devilish and wicked motive that laid claim to the killer’s identity and that I did not see coming. A great job done by the author in one of the best book in this endearingly enticing series.