Neve Campbell to Headline David E. Kelley, Michael Connelly ABC Series ‘Avalon’

A new historical (Regency-era) mystery series! Lady Abigail Worthing and Stapleton Henderson are fighting neighbors until Abigail finds Juliet, Stapleton’s wife, dead on her property. Which is a problem on its own but Abigail has enough against her to know this will lead to finger pointing at her. And while she has an alibi, it’s one she cannot give since it would cause her too much trouble. So when Stapleton offers her another alibi, it makes sense that the two with the most to lose may find a way to work together to figure out what happened.

If you’re looking for a page-turning procedural series, this one is for you. It’s the second book in the series and it starts at the end of the first book dealing with the aftermath (so if you like to not have a book spoiled pick up Gone For Good). If you don’t however care about that, you can start here and not be lost — you’re given all the info you need. Annalisa Vega is a detective, daughter of a retired cop, and not in many people’s good graces. Her ex-husband is also currently her partner — they don’t hate each other, and I love this dynamic. A new case is assigned to them which is just baffling: a cop was murdered in his sleep with his own gun while his wife was there but she was unharmed and can’t identify the person because they were in scuba gear. It sounds too far fetched to be real and Vega has her work cut out for her. If you like messy personal lives of detectives you root for and fast paced mysteries, here you go. Bonus: I enjoyed the audiobook narrator, Kelsey Navarro.

(TW domestic violence/ mentions past suicide, no detail/ parent with Parkinson’s/ sexual harassment and stalking stories)