Rattling the Heat in Deadwood by Ann Charles [Review]

Rattling the Heat in Deadwood (Deadwood #8) by Ann Charles
Format: ebook
Source: purchased

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Date read: September 30, 2020

Deadwood
1. Nearly Departed in Deadwood
2. Optical Delusions in Deadwood
3. Dead Case in Deadwood
4. Better Off Dead in Deadwood
5. An Ex to Grind in Deadwood
6. Meanwhile, Back in Deadwood
7. A Wild Fright in Deadwood
8. Rattling the Heat in Deadwood - Paperback | Kindle
9. Gone Haunting in Deadwood
10. Don't Let It Snow in Deadwood
11. Devil Days in Deadwood
12. Never Say Sever in Deadwood

Ann Charles
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Synopsis (Goodreads):

A scrappy, hot-blooded woman can only take so much!

Violet Parker is on fire… or rather under fire yet again.

New evidence has fanned the embers of a cold murder case, and her alibi is smoldering at the corners. While battling a dogged detective determined to pin the murder on her, Violet scrambles to find the real killer.

Will she escape “the heat” with singed tail feathers? Or will Violet go down in flames?

Thoughts on Rattling the Heat in Deadwood: (For the record, I am DETERMINED to get caught up on this series so I stop reading these books out of order. Like, I don't even know how it keeps happening, but here we are. So, you know, hold onto the fact I am hopelessly confused most of the time and might start messing up the timeline/order of events since I've already read later books. Dang it.)

Okay. This time around, Violet is...well, she's her usual hot-headed self and she has Coop's new partner breathing down her neck because he's SURE she's involved in several of the unsolved murders that keep happening around Deadwood. Which is not incorrect, as it turns out, but Hawke doesn't have the entire picture. Violet might be involved, but not the way he thinks.

Regardless, Violet's temper keeps getting her in deeper trouble with Hawke, Cooper is jumping at shadows of the ghostly variety (which is hilarious in its own way because Cooper is so darn stoic most of the time), Doc is fantastically supportive (as always), and there's a certain charmingly slimy someone who has his eye on Aunt Zoe.

Just another day in Deadwood for the Executioner, right?

Monsters, mayhem, and detectives with bulldog-like tendencies. *thumbs up*