Before I read this book, I made sure to read the first in the series, Walk into Silence. Jo, a detective, Hank, her detective partner, and Alex. her medical examiner boyfriend, return in this book and what keeps me wanting to read about them is that these are good people...not perfect people but good people, with good hearts. I hope that there will be more books in this series.

Walk a Crooked Line is about a 15 year old girl who commits suicide and the detective partners, Jo and Hank, trying to figure out what led her to do so or if she was really murdered. There is another case they are working on that involves dogs being beaten and killed. I avoid reading books about animal abuse but I'd already read the first book and it was so good, I wanted to read the second book. The abuse is tied into the plot line so a necessary part of the book and the detectives want justice for the animals and their owners just as much as they want justice for the 15 year old girl.

Hopefully more books about Jo and the other characters will be coming in the future because I'll be sure to read them. I really didn't want to put this book down. Thank you to Thomas & Mercer and NetGalley for this ARC.