Crooked Ways by Tina Whittle

Book 7 in the Tai Randolph & Trey Seaver mysteries is finally out! And top of my list of book reads this month.   (If you’re new to the series, go back and start at the beginning*—THEN come read Crooked Ways.)Along the way you will fall in love with this romantic, crime-stopping duo: Tai — the smart-ass, trouble-prone, amateur sleuth and Civil War-themed gun shop owner and Trey — the ex-SWAT, neurodivergent private security expert (and hottie extraordinaire), who experiences the world — and Tai — through a unique and fascinating lens.

By Book 7, Tai has decided to remedy her amateur status and is working to get her own PI license — but when her family’s checkered past lifts its ugly head and putting the patriarch troublemaker himself on somebody’s hit list, she finds it hard to color inside the rigid lines demanded by her license.

Tina Whittle is a master at crafting complex plots with more twists than the centuries-old live oaks that dot the low-country landscapes of her stories. I have yet to figure out the who-dun-it before Tai and Trey do! Add in a sense of comic timing that has you laughing out loud and luxurious wordsmithing that will have you re-reading sentences just to taste them in your mouth again, and you have a glimpse of what’s waiting for you between the covers of her books.  But just a glimpse. The full course, you have to discover for yourself. So GO already!

* Series in Order: (1) The Dangerous Edge of Things, (2) Darker Than Any Shadow; (3) Blood, Ash, & Bone; (4) Deeper Than the Grave; (5) Reckoning and Ruin; (6) Necessary Ends; (7) Crooked Ways.