Review – Clean Break

Gabby and the Cold Case Squad tackle their most personal case yet. Evie Manson’s foster mom vanished six weeks ago on a trip to Pennsylvania. The mystery surrounding her disappearance haunts Evie. Was it a blind date gone bad? Is she injured somewhere all alone? Why hasn’t anyone heard from her since? With not a clue in sight, Gabby and the Cold Case Squad travel to Shady Valley to investigate. When no one will answer their questions and hostility abounds around every corner, the crew determines something is definitely shady in the valley. News of a dead body found in the local park intensifies the search for Evie’s missing mother. Just what is the town hiding? Is Evie’s foster mom even still alive? Gabby and her team need to catch a break before time runs out. But will obstacles at every turn stop them? My thoughts :  CLEAN BREAK might be book 15 in this series, but the books all stand-alone, the mysteries are solved in each book, but the main characters are consistent. This book is set in a creepy little town in Pennsylvania that might give Fog Lake, Tennessee competition for creepiness. Women are being murdered by a serial killer, but the police claim they can find no leads--or are they too lazy to follow them? Gabby and her team have little to go on, but they are determined, even if it means the bullies arrive enforce to run them out of town. I had my guesses who-dun-it, but I was wrong. There were some unexpected twists. Another winner from prolific author Christy Barritt.