The characters were interesting. Tully, the academic turned cop, his dads that hate his job, and his old school partner. However, the book often drifted into these academic passages that really weighed the book down and were to me quite boring. There were two mysteries going on. The main murder I was confused as to the motivation when resolved. The second one came together rather quickly. That all being said I see a lot of potential here and will most likely try the next book in the series.
I was given a copy from Netgalley in exchange for an unbiased review.

I want to start off by saying thank you for the opportunity to read and review this book, it was a very good read easy to follow along with storyline and characters. This was a new author for me but I very much enjoyed it, thank you for the opportunity and I look forward to reading more by this author again. I highly recommend this book to everybody.

A bit of an unusual story
A lot of twist in this one. You have a person from academia tying to succeed in his new carrier of Detective. It isn't going easy. Not only are parents disappointed that he isn't following in their footsteps but he is also having a hard time been accepted in the job. A case of resentment of somebody been giving quicker promotion because of his education. Almost everybody seems to want him to fail. The book kept my interest but was slightly put off by the ending which seem to have been rushed and might have been better. Overall I enjoyed the story.

This police procedural, a debut novel, is well written and highly recommended for those who enjoy this genre.

A badly burned corpse is at the center of this story, with the pursuit of a dog poisoner a secondary case. The LA homicide squad who investigates these cases is composed of some unique characters, including rookie Detective Tully Jarsdel, a former academic with an almost completed PhD in history. He is teamed with veteran detective Oscar Morales. This different slant on a police protagonist is refreshing.

An engrossing read, with strong and interesting character development, the somewhat macabre resolution of the case did not take away from my enjoyment of the book. It is anticipated that this is the beginning of a series, and I look forward to the next one.

For a debut novel, I am giving it 5 stars

This book has a fantastic collection of truly weird characters. The story is imaginative and suspenseful, and the antics of the characters are a big plus. The setting of Hollywood and the inclusion of information from a variety of films, some rather obscure, makes for a very entertaining read. The story begins with the discovery of a gory corpse that appears to have been baked alive. Despite this ominous beginning, the terror doesn't come until near the end. In between you meet people who are truly unique and off-the-wall crazy. In addition to the entertainment, the reader is treated to an education with snippets from history and the movies.

One Day You’ll Burn is Joseph Schneider’s debut, launching the Tully Jarsdel series of police procedurals. Tully works for Hollywood Homicide, an experimental division pairing young, high-scoring academically-oriented cops with older, experienced partners. Jarsdel is a Ph.D. and former history professor who turned to policing to make a difference. His fathers are disappointed and not shy about expressing it.

The story begins when he is called to a bizarre murder. The body of a man is found placed on a Thai Buddhist statue. But the real puzzle is the cause of death, the man was baked to death. Not burned, baked. What kind of oven is big enough for that. He is put in charge of the investigation, something he is certain his partner did because the case is likely to go unsolved.

Meanwhile, the team is also working to identify a serial dog poisoner. While interviewing victims, Jarsdel encounters a woman who seems a great fit to his somewhat (very) didactic conversational style. She likes efficiency.



I liked One Day You’ll Burn a lot. There is a scene where Jarsdel strikes up a conversation with a woman at the Farmers Market who is writing a book. I just know that woman went home and tweeted about how she was mansplained by this guy. And of course, he wasn’t, but from her perspective, I am sure she is thinking the occasion replicated Rebecca Solnit’s experience exactly. There was something so funny and poignant about Jarsdel recognizing he flubbed and his six-minute epitaph of their relationship. Here’s the thing, when a writer makes even a minor one-scene encounter so real, you are imagining the characters continuing their day and doing something in reaction to events, that writer has made them come alive. If I’m taking the characters off the page, the writer has made me care.

The mystery itself is solved by a combination of serendipity and those connections that people intuit when they have the information they need. It does, however, need a content warning. There is grisly murder afoot, grisly, stomach-turning murder. This is not a cozy despite the humor and humanity. However, I am eager to see Jarsdel’s development as a detective and as a man. I look forward to what comes next in the series.

I received an e-galley of One Day You’ll Burn from the publisher through NetGalley.

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A fascinating debut novel from a new author who I hope is busy writing a sequel. Rookie cop - and , to the shock of his gay parents- an ex history teacher- investigates a badly burned body left at a Thai Monument in LA. Meanwhile, another miscreant is killing dogs while their owners are getting married. (You can’t make this stuff up - or can you?). Multiple and well defined characters and a lot of LA history. Very clever unraveling with twists and turns. A great read. Waiting for more from this author.

A debut police procedural introducing two new partners, Detectives Morales and Jarsdel. They are part of an experimental homicide unit that pairs an older, experienced, street-wise officer with a young, intellectual, college-educated newbie. They are assigned two cases, one involving a burned/baked body and the other dealing with a long time dog killer. There isn’t exactly a lot of thrills and action, but the Hollywood locale and the human element of the story—the partners learning to accept one another and the growth of former history professor Jarsdel—make an interesting read.

I liked this story but I did not like the main character. He ruined it for me. Well, and I did not like the secondary investigation that weaved its way throughout the book. It felt more like a diversion than something that added to the overall story. I am not sure whether the author thought he might not get a second book in the series published, but I felt like Detective Tully Jarsdel couldn't help but tell everyone everything he knew about everything. And apparently that was a lot of information unrelated to the actual story. It read as being condescending and all the random detours for him to lecture on history or whatever detracted from the story. I think I hit my limit when he argued with his date about her lazy and preposterous thesis. Wow! Why would she want to ever go out with him again? I am not sure how the series could continue without the main character and that is too bad because the crime was interesting and unique.

In this book set in Los Angeles Rookie Detective Tully and his veteran partner Morales are assigned a case of a burned victim found in front of a Thai place of honor, so was it stage or what. They cannot make any identification of the body either. While they worker that case they are assigned another one where someone is killing the wedding couples’ dog on their wedding day. With both cases going at the same each one has its own problems.
Along the way, you are given a look into Tully’s life former academia who was on the track to become a history professor and is now a police detective. He is different than others on the force and they do remind him. He is also feeling it from his parents who did not want him to join the force and he still has problems talking to people especially women. All of these and some others come together to make for a very good story and one where I did not want to put down when I hit the half waypoint. A very good book and very much worth the read.

This is the first in a new police procedural series set in LA following Detective Tully Jarsdel, an academic turned police detective. I feel a little torn in my thoughts around this book. I enjoyed the main mystery storyline and the developing relationship between Tully and his partner as the book progressed, however a lot of the book focuses on character development rather than the actual mystery element of the book. I suspect this may be due to the fact it’s the first in a new series so the author was trying to ensure that the characters were well developed and was setting the scene for future books but at many points I felt that the two mystery storylines were in fact playing second fiddle which is a shame as the main one was a good storyline. I did like the writing style and I would be interested to read the second in the series once it’s released to see if it put more of a focus on the case itself now that we already know the characters.

Many thanks to NetGalley, Poisoned Pen Press, and Joseph Schneider for the opportunity to read and review his debut novel - 4.5 stars! I'm excited to read more from this author and more adventures for these characters.

Tully Jarsdel is not an ordinary Los Angeles police officer. He was an English professor working towards his PhD when he decided he needed to make a change. He joined the police academy and was then fast-tracked to homicide detective under a new program where he was paired with a veteran detective, Morales. When they are called to a gruesome scene in Thai Town, where a victim was burned alive, Tully's academic background helps him figure out key clues to solving the crime. But will it be enough?

This is a great police procedural but it also explores many other themes - depression, parental expectations, fitting in. There is also a very intellectual side to this book, with discussions on philosophy, right/wrong, films.

A great debut novel and hope for more Tully stories!

Well written, well researched, well put together, well developed storyline, not boring at all.
Good plot, interesting characters, good pace.
Good from start to finish, it keeps you turning the pages until the end.

A new author that has everything to make you want to read the next book!

Thank you to NetGalley and Poisoned Pen Press for the ARC of this book. This is my honest review. All opinions are my own.

"One Day You'll Burn" is the first book in a new police series by Joseph Schenider, featuring Detective Tully Jarsdel and his partner, Morales. This story grabs you from the start and doesn't let up. It kept me guessing until the end. The characters are well-developed and interesting, with enough background to make me anticipate the next book in this series.

This is a very entertaining, past paced, edge of your seat mystery. Also has a little bit of romance in the mix. I found it to be very entertaining. Detective Jarsdel is a very unique and easy to like character. I received a free copy of this book from NetGalley and am voluntarily leaving this review

Astounding. I can only remember five books affecting me as this one did: two historical, one fantasy, two contemporary. Let me specify up front that the reader requires an extraordinarily strong stomach and heart. The gore level is elevated, but I reiterate that it is not here for the sake of Gore--this is not self-indulgence, nor Splatterpunk. This is historical Evil, legendary Evil, contemporary Narcissism, arrogance, and Evil. In the hands of some other author, this might be gross-out gore for gore's sake; but with this author, and a protagonist standing on this Higher Ground of moral excellence, the story is elevated far above crass violence.

What a great start to a new series. It starts out at warp speed and just keeps ramping up from there. It's definitely a book to pick up and consume in one greedy gulp. Happy reading!

Detective Tully Jarsdel is a rather unique character. The son of two dads, he disappointed them terribly when he left his job as a history teacher and became a law enforcement officer, and now a homicide detective. He's known by his mentor and colleagues as a 'brain' as he's one of the few who have a college degree. He's a little awkward, a bit of a social misfit .. but the one thing he is really good at is finding the bad guys.

He and his mentor/partner, Morales. are called to the scene of a victim so badly burned that the body doesn't even look human. He's been slowly cooked to death .. something no one has seen before.

Tully thinks the placement of the body is key .... but he is a party of one. He and Morales come to loggerheads on how to proceed when there's no motive, no witnesses, no clues.

Book Blurb: They find themselves dragged into the underbelly of a city notorious for chewing up and spitting out anyone dumb enough to turn their back on survival.

This is a debut novel, showcasing not only the characters, but the competing sides of Los Angeles.. which can be beautiful on one hand, the squalidness on the other. As Tully has a background in history, the book is filled with assorted lectures / information on any number of subjects. There are places that slowed down to a crawl in places and overall, I did not find this particularly thrilling or action packed. The author also exposes the family dynamics and how there is love ... but also a bit of anger and disappointment

Many thanks to the author / Poisoned Pen Press / Netgalley for the copy of this crime fiction. Read and reviewed voluntarily, opinions expressed here are unbiased and entirely my own.

3.5 STARS

If the corpse had ever heard the phrase, One Day You’ll Burn, little did he know that today was that day. It was also the day his leg was partially eaten by a one-eyed coyote. It wasn’t the coyote’s fault. He did smell like carnitas.

It happened at the foot of an impromptu shrine to Phra Phrom, the Thai equivalent to Brahma. The eating—not the cooking. It’s just a day in the life of the Hollywood Station of LAPD.

New Detective, Tully, is part of new program where the highest scoring rookies were paired with veteran detectives in Hollywood Homicide or HH2. Tully had dropped out of a PhD program to become a cop. After acing the detective exam, he was paired with Morales, a veteran. Morales gives Tully the burnout victim as his first major case.

The plot I’ve written above sounds like it would be funny like Brooklyn Nine-Nine. However, it feels more like Instinct. You’re forgiven if you haven’t heard of Instinct. It was new on CBS last season but cancelled in August of 2019. It also involves a detective that goes on long asides featuring, you know, knowledge-y things. Its main problem? Too much smartness and not enough action or comedy. One Day You’ll Burn has the same issue. I realize this is the first book in a new series. Hopefully, all the introductions forced this book’s many long speeches about, basically, everything. I will read the next in the series but I hope the comedy is brought into sharper focus in that book. 3 stars for this one.

Thanks to Poisoned Pen Press and NetGalley for a copy in exchange for my honest review.

One day You’ll Burn portrays Hollywood and Los Angeles as seen through the jaundiced eyes of two modern-day cops. However, the pessimism is tempered by some hope which some may say is foolish.
Tully is a recently promoted homicide cop investigating a murder with a unique cause of death. Strange even by the macabre standards of the Hollywood station. Due to the cause of death, the i.d. of the victim is difficult to ascertain. But once that is accomplished, the fun begins. Who and why would somebody cause such great suffering to another? We are treated to a panoramic tour of L.A. and all it has to offer. From the privileged boulevards of the west side to the horrible and dangerous streets of East LA as seen through the eyes of Tully and his partner. The cast of characters is as varied as the city’s inhabitants, each with an ax to grind and a plot to hit it big.
One day You’ll Burn is a travelogue of misery, violence, weirdness and best of all, hope and regulated optimism. Hang on for the ride and be prepared to meet cops, junkies, thieves, hustlers, and killers. Highly recommended for anybody craving a talented and capable new voice in the mystery/procedural genre.