Book Review: Suspicious Behavior by LA Witt & Cari Z
Detective Darren Corliss is hanging by a thread. In between recovering from a near-fatal wound and returning to work at a hostile precinct, he’s struggling to help care for his ailing brother. His partner and boyfriend, Detective Andreas Ruffner, wants to help, but doesn’t know how. And with his own family crises brewing, Andreas is spread almost as thin as Darren.
For cops, though, life takes a backseat to the job. When a stack of unsolved homicides drops into their laps, Andreas and Darren think they’re unrelated cold cases. But when a connection surfaces, they find themselves on the tail of a prolific serial killer who’s about to strike again.
Except they’ve got nothing. No leads. No suspects. Just a pile of circumstantial evidence and a whole lot of hunches. Time is running out to stop the next murder—and to pull themselves back from their breaking points.
5 Stars!!!
Suspicious Behavior is book 2 in the Bad Behavior series and it needs to be read in order, so don't skip the first book!
Andreas and Darren are dealing with the consequences of putting away their fellow police officers in prison. Darren is struggling with trying to heal from his nearly life-threatening wound and dealing with his brother's illnesses, which keeps progressing at an alarming rate. And if that wasn't enough, they're given a stack of cold cases to investigate and after finding a pattern, they realize they're dealing with a serial killer, who they will have to try to stop before he disappears again.
I've always loved Detective series that manage to combine action, a realistic police investigation and romance. The romance sort of takes a backstep in this series to everything else happening, though. Still, we get enough of Andreas and Darren being there for each other and the small gestures that tell so much about their growing feelings, like Darren melting every time that Andreas is interacting with his daughters, especially Emily, and truly, who can blame him? It was adorable to see the Big Bad Detective Ruffner turn to putty in his 4-year-old daughter's hands.
Darren's family's storyline is heartwrenching and seeing Asher, his brother, deteriorate even more with each installment is awful. I just can't imagine how hard something like this must be for the family or even for the person, when they're lucid enough to realize that they're slowly forgetting everything about themselves and their loved ones.
The serial killer angle was amazing. It was interesting, action-packed and had me guessing until the end. There were some things I didn't see coming at all and I loved to be surprised.
As secondary characters go, Paula is such a badass, she's awesome and I adore every scene she's in. Erin and Emily were lovely, too and it was a great way to show us Andreas' tender side.
Overall, to me, the series just keeps getting better and better and I just can't get enough of Andreas and Darren! Highly recommendable!
*** Copy provided to me by Riptide Publishing via NetGalley for my reading pleasure. ***
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