It is late April 2016 when Beneath
The Depths: A Detective Bryon Mystery by Bruce Robert Coffin opens and
attorney Paul Ramsey is soon dead. The prominent local attorney, just hours after
losing a very high profile multi million dollar trial, has been fished out of
Casco Bay after being found by a local lobsterman in the hours before dawn as
he worked his traps. It is a cool morning in Portland, Maine, but the day will
heat up fast in more ways than one.
Portland Police Detective Sergeant John Byron and his
partner, Detective Diana Joyner, are first on the case. Sergeant Bryon has
good cause not to care for the flamboyant attorney, but that no longer matters.
With the man dead, he is a victim and deserves the full efforts of everyone on
the case. It does not take long before it is clear that this was no accident
and was, in fact, a murder. The suspect pool is massive and seems to grow
larger by the hour.
Beneath The Depths: A Detective Bryon Mystery is the second book in the series that began so well in Among
The Shadows. Numerous plotlines, several involving the personal
lives of Bryon and members of his team, continue here and serve as background
to the main plotline as noted above. This is a series that is not static. In
this series, people age, situations and characters evolve, and time relentlessly
moves forward. The foundation for the series was laid in the first book and
here the building of what promises to be a complex and entertaining series
continues.
Like Among The Shadows, this second book, Beneath
The Depths: A Detective Bryon Mystery is a very good and strongly
recommended. If it is not clear already, this is a series that needs to be read
in order to be fully appreciated and enjoyed.
I recently received a print copy of
this book, as well as the next two, from the author with no expectation of a
review.
Kevin R. Tipple ©2020
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