Review: The Night Hawks

The Night Hawks by Elly Griffiths
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Thanks to Netgalley and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt for providing me with an advanced copy in exchange for an honest review.

When I was younger, as in grade school/high school/college, I mostly read mysteries. They were just my thing. I started with Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys, the Clue books from Scholastic Book Fair brochures, the Boxcar Children. I graduated into Agatha Christie and some more modern authors.

And then I discovered Goodreads and branched out into other genres. After that, a friend's Urban Fantasy suggestion led to a years long obsession with the genre, at the expense of reading more mysteries.

But you know what? I picked up Elly Griffiths' Ruth Galloway series, book one - The Crossing Places, for a group read, and fell in love with her writing. I love her characters, her mysteries, the perfect balance of intrigue and character development with a dash of history and setting thrown in.

This entry into the series was no exception. As we've gotten to know the people of the town, we've seen the cast grow, and that's blossomed into being deeply invested in their lives outside of the main mystery plot as well.

This one definitely throws some wrenches into the works.

Highly recommended for mystery lovers, but please please please, jump in with the first book rather than delving into this one too early. There are plot points that will be much more appreciated with knowing the character history.

Four and a half stars, rounded down.

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