The Girl in the Woods by Gregg Olsen - a human foot is found in the woods during a school field trip and coroner Birdy Waterman and detective Kendall Stark can only wait until the rest of the body is found. Meanwhile, a man is poisoned and it looks like his wife may have done this before. Set in Port Orchard, Wa and the surrounding area, this is the only redeemable feature of the book. The author, a white male, makes his main character a female Makah Indian. Which is remarked on over and over. He also seems to have a hangup about lesbians, I had to check the copyright to see if this was written 20 years ago. Too graphic and a yucky sex scene that the characters didn't want in their heads and neither did I. This is what I get when I download a book from the library when I really want to read something. The first in a series I won't be continuing.
1 star
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Rescued by David Rosenfelt - a truck is found at a rest stop full of rescue dogs and a dead driver. Andy Carpenter, part time lawyer and founder of a dog rescue operation, is called to help deal with the dogs. He gets an odd phone call from his wife and when he arrives home she greets him with the news that her ex-boyfriend is there, he's confessed to the murder, but claims it was self-defense. Andy reluctantly takes the case, which turns out to have many layers. The 17th in the series.
3 stars
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