The Secrets of Bones: A Mystery
By Kylie Logan
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Second in a new series from national bestselling author Kylie Logan, The Secrets of Bones is a riveting mystery following Jazz Ramsey as she trains a cadaver dog.
Assembly Day at St. Catherine’s dawns bright and cloudless as professional woman gather from all around Ohio to talk to the schoolgirls about their careers ranging from medicine, to NASA, to yoga. Jazz Ramsey has also signed up to give the girls a taste of her lifelong passion: cadaver dog training. Her adorable new puppy Wally hasn’t been certified yet, so she borrows the fully-trained Gus from a friend and hides a few bones in the unused fourth floor of the school for him to find.
The girls are impressed when Gus easily finds the first bone, but then Gus heads confidently to a part of the floor where Jazz is sure no bones are hidden—at least not any that she’s put there. But Gus is a professional, and sure enough, behind a door that no one has opened in ages, is a human skeleton. Jazz recognizes the necklace the skeleton is wearing, and that it belonged to Bernadette Quinn, an ex-teacher at the school who’d quit her job abruptly one Christmas break. But now it seems Bernadette never left the school at all, and her hiding place makes it clear: this was murder.
Bernadette in life had been a difficult personality, and so there are a plethora of suspects inside the school and out of it. As Jazz gets closer to the truth she can’t help but wonder if someone might be dogging her footsteps...
Kylie Logan
KYLIE LOGAN is the national bestselling author of the Jazz Ramsey Mysteries, The League of Literary Ladies Mysteries, the Button Box Mysteries, the Chili Cook-Off Mysteries, and the Ethnic Eats Mysteries.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The first book in this series, The Scent of Murder, showed a lot of promise, and this second entry certainly begins fulfilling a lot of that. Jazz has learned a better way to question her suspects (in the first book she tended to infuriate everyone which is dangerous), and her relationship with a local detective aids in her investigation. There's the usual cop who poo-poos everything she says, but he's not obnoxious to the point where I wanted someone to run him down with a patrol car. (I take out any latent aggression in the fiction I read.)Logan has a main character with a voice that captures my attention and won't let it go. In The Secrets of Bones, she's also crafted an excellent mystery that kept me guessing all the way to the reveal. I'm definitely looking forward to the next book, although this author stomps all over one of my pet peeves.Cozy mysteries usually have some sort of "hook" to capture a reader's attention and make them pick up and read the book. When Logan once again fell hook, line, and sinker for one of my peeves, I had to look up two things. One was my reading history with this author. She's written several series, and I've read books in two of her others. One button shop series I picked up because I love buttons. Yes, there was some information about buttons at the beginning of the book, but if they showed up again it was because someone threw all the buttons on the floor and the main character had to pick them up. Buttons were the hook that was quickly dropped after the beginning of the book. The second thing I had to look up was more information about the literary or narrative hook: "It appears at the beginning of the story and may contain several pages of a novel, several paragraphs of a short story, or it might be only an opening sentence..." So I learned that my expectations were rather high, and Logan is following the letter of the literary hook law. But... my expectations are still high. If this series is supposed to be about a woman who trains cadaver dogs, may we please have more than a couple of pages about the process? Pretty please?Will I read the next book in the series? I've already said yes because I do like the main character and the mystery was excellent. I just wish I could train myself not to be so annoyed when hooks don't last as long as I want them to!
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Jazz Ramsey is a school secretary at an exclusive Catholic girls's school in Cleveland. Her hobby is training cadaver dogs. Since she is currently training a new puppy named Wally, she borrows a retired cadaver dog from a friend when she is suddenly brought in as a substitute for a no-show at the school's career day. They go up to the unused fourth floor of the school for their demonstration when the dog finds something Jazz had not previously hidden.Gus finds bones in a closet that housed the old heating system. Clothing on the body seems to indicate that the victim was a former teacher who had problems with students and other faculty and who was in danger of being fired. Most of the staff was relieved when a resignation letter arrived at the end of Christmas Break three years earlier.Now Jazz is determined to find out who killed Bernadette Quinn. She doesn't want to suspect her boss Sister Eileen but Eileen did argue with Bernadette before Christmas Break and who was worried about Quinn suing the school. Of course, the killers could have been three students who delighted in tormenting the very religious teacher. Or maybe the parent of the girl Quinn discovered plagiarizing her college admittance letter. Or maybe the mysterious man the cleaning lady saw around the school. Or maybe the cousin who seems to have taken over her life and home. I liked that Jazz was persistent and curious. I liked that she was working on her relationship with police officer Nick after a break up because they were moving too fast and were having trouble working around their demanding jobs and hobbies. I liked her relationship with her new puppy Wally and the information about search and rescue dogs and cadaver dogs. The story was fast-paced and exciting.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I came for the dogs and Cleveland but stayed for due diligence in an unusual whodunit.Jasmine (Jazz) is an administrative assistant in a religious girls school in Cleveland and in her off hours she trains scent dogs to find human remains. During career day her experienced dog locates the remains of a teacher who was thought to have resigned without leaving a trace. The detective on the case is unimaginative and her former boyfriend, also detective, is disinclined to investigate. But Jazz knew the woman and applies due diligence through all the misdirections and red herrings. Good plot development and engaging characters. Loved it!I requested and received a free ebook copy from St Martin's Press/Minotaur Books via NetGalley. Thank you!Two excellent Nonfiction books about cadaver dogs are: No Stone Unturned by Steve Jackson, and What The Dog Knows by Cat Warren.