I've read many books by the Kellerman's and have enjoyed them all. This one was no exception. Fast paced and easy to read. I had a hard time putting it down. This is book 3 in a series. I'm going to go back now and read the first two. I highly recommend this book.

I received a free copy form NetGalley. Bones found in a construction site, current protests, old secrets came together to keep the pages turning. I have read other Clay Edison books but I think you could read this one without being familiar with the characters.

Deputy Coroner Clay Edison has a new baby, is working the night shift, just trying to survive and to get some sleep. What he doesn't want is the discovery of a decades-old skeleton of a child while workers are excavating a local park. Members of the community don't want the park replaced by a college building and this find fuels their protests. When a local businessman calls to suggest the identity of the skeleton could be that of his missing or dead sister, Clay is drawn into a mystery that may be best left buried. What other secrets are buried with the skeleton and will Clay be able to protect his family from the violence and threats?

This is the 3rd book in the series, however, it can be read as a stand-alone. I have not read the first 2 and enjoyed the story. (I will probably go back and read the others and future books). I am a Jonathon Kellerman fan especially his Alex Delaware series and have read a few novels by his wife, Faye Kellerman. What a talented family! An entertaining mystery with a few unexpected twists and turns, total escapism. Any parent can identify with the sheer exhaustion of Clay and his wife and sympathize with the mother of the dead infant. There are many parallels in this page-turning plot which tie the mystery together.

Love books that have recurring characters and these dyno duo authors never disappoint. This book is more than just 1 story so much is going on family, friends, jobs, So many secrets that you can't put down.

Book Three in the series featuring Alameda County Coroner Clay Edison is a slow piece by piece investigation, not a wild action-packed shootout. Edison lives in Berkeley and the craziness of that place is typified by one of the two parallel stories in this novel. In Berkeley, People's Park s a legend, a vacant piece of land that the university keeps trying to develop despite angry community protests. This time though someone finally figured out to stop progress and building by dumping an infant's corpse in the park. Well, actually, the infant was buried there decades earlier, which makes figuring out who it was and whether he here was foul play nearly impossible to determine. Edison doggedly keeps poking no matter where the faint clues lead him. An, h never quite expected the story that eventually develops.

Th second story he investigates is as a favor to a friend. No this is another Berkeley mystery baby when someone finds photos of their mother with a mystery baby and no clue who the baby was or what happened to her. Again, Edison finds himself poking around in the past and into a story no one suspected.

Good ring carries this story and keeps the reader fascinated.

Many thanks to the publisher for providing a copy for review.

I really enjoy reading a great mystery. The two mysteries in this book and how they connect eas very satisfying. Although I found the fight over the Peoples Park a little tedious. Love the character of Clay Edison and look forward to more books with him.

As a longtime Jonathan Kellerman fan, I didn't think I could ever become as attached to his new protagonist Clay Edison as I was to Alex Delaware, Robin, and Milo. I was wrong.

The third installment of his new series centered on Clay Edison covers almost a year (measured in the age of Clay's baby girl, Charlotte). Clay is called to examine some bones found at the site of a park which is in the process of being demolished to make room for new housing at Berkeley, and this is the starting line for a wild ride of a book that deals with infant death, kidnapping, white supremacy, native American rights, and grass roots activism. We also get to see inside the new family dynamics as Clay and Amy learn how to deal with parenting and the exhaustion and joy that come along with it. In between, Clay is asked to help a man find a baby who he believes was his sister, although his parents never talk about her. And all of these things are connected. The fun is reading as Clay figures it all out.

I will admit that sometimes I had to stop and think about who was who because there are a lot of characters and Kellerman is so well acquainted with them all that at times he misses a chance to put in a little reminder to jog our collective memory. I love his writing style, however, and that makes up for any perceived shortcomings.

The ending is satisfying because all the ends are tied up (even it not necessarily neatly) and any remaining questions the reader may have are very minor. The way the book ends left me looking forward to the next installment.

Another great read from the Kellermans. Clay Edison is a likable character which engages the reader and leaves them wanting to find out what happens. As a mom I loved being able to relate to Clay and his wife trying to handle working and having a newborn. Overall this was a great book and keeps me committed to reading future books by the father/son duo.

The Kellermans always produce good reads, This one is well developed and presents a convincing couple adapting to the challenges of a new baby and career juggling. Seems as though there are several plots intertwining and sometimes deciding which one is most interesting. I would recommend this to mystery fans and familiar with the multicultural shifts in America in the 60's. Love, Peace, and Happiness.

In this sophomore outing of father-son collaborators Jesse and Jonathan Kellerman, deputy coroner Clay Edison finds himself investigating the accidental disinterment of human bones in a highly charged location-Peoples Park in Berkeley,, the epicenter of protests and demonstrations since the 1960s. The arduous process of identifying the remains sets up one of the riddles Clay is called on to solve while a mission to locate the missing siblings of a private client established the outlines of another mystery. The answers, like the unearthed skeleton and the fragment of a photograph that sets Clay's client in search of his past, are buried in history, and what little drama or tension this somewhat lifeless novel provides isn't enough to hold the reader in thrall, or even suspense.

The third in the Deputy Coroner Clay Edison series written by father and son continues with another solid hit.

Thank you to Random House Publishing Group - Ballantine, as well as NetGalley for the opportunity to read the latest Jonathon/Jesse Kellerman novel in the Clay Edison series.

I have read the previous two Clay Edison novels from the Kellermans. I have enjoyed both of the previous novels, and I enjoy the Alex Delaware series by Jonathon Kellerman - so I was looking forward to reading "Half Moon Bay". This was definitely a winner! The Clay Edison series follows the path of the deputy county coroner - Clay Edison - and in this novel, the plot arrived quickly. The University of California Berkley, in the beginning phase of renovating a local park, discover the bones of an infant, wrapped in a blanket. Clay Edison is then brought in to find a relative or next-of-kin to the deceased. The story plays out well from there. Young love, an accidental death, as well as a dash of "white supremacy" add to the story's plot.

If this story wasn't enough, the other interesting piece of the novel is Clay agreeing to help a friend of a friend find a possible sibling. This side story of love, betrayal, missing siblings, as well as how far people will go to have a child, made this part of the story fascinating to me. Both stories were intertwined well, and kept me wondering what the next "wow" would be.

As always, the Kellermans produced another good read with "Half Moon Bay". I definitely recommend this read - lots of intrigue, and quite a number of family secrets to keep you second-guessing as to the ending.

I'm a big fan of the Kellerman family of writers, but I have to admit that I was disappointed in this third collaboration between Jonathan and son, Jesse. There are two cases being investigated in Half Moon Bay, and in the end, I felt as though one Kellerman wrote about the case of discovered infant remains in a park in Berkley, CA, and the other Kellerman wrote about the case of a little girl who went missing many years ago, and then they just merged. The former story was fairly simplistic and didn't involve a lot of characters/suspects, while the latter was a confusing mess with far too many characters to keep in mind. As a reader, I was also confused at times as to whether I was reading about the little dead boy or the little missing girl. In summary, I found the story to be clunky and disjointed. I also found the character development to be lacking. This is the third book in the series, but I still don't have any feel for the main character, Clay Edison.

It's a decent read, but not one of my favorites. Thanks to NetGalley and Random House for providing me a digital ARC in exchange for an honest review. Half Moon Bay will be published on July 21, 2020.

Half Moon Bay is a father (Jonathan) and son (Jesse) collaboration featuring coroner Clay Edison. The writing is engaging and the characters are well developed.

The Peoples Park is being razed to make way for student housing. When bones wrapped in a blue blanket are discovered all work is halted. Trying to identify the young bones is a job Clay undertakes. Multiple possibilities arise and the more Clay investigates the more complicated the identification becomes.

This is a solid mystery that kept my interest right up to the surprise ending. The home life of new parents Clay and Amy is humorously documented. It's touch and go whether they will survive baby Charlotte's first year.

I received an Advanced Reader's Copy Ballantine Books through NetGalley. The opinions expressed are entirely my own.
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Half Moon Bay by Jonathan and Jesse Kellerman is the third in the Clay Edison series. I will admit I preferred the Alex Delaware series . Deputy Coroner Clay Edison is quite the compelling character. I did prefer the previous two books as this one never seemed to get up to speed and at times was confusing as to who was connected to whom and which of the two storylines I was dealing with.
Thanks to the author, the publisher and NetGalley for the opportunity to review this advanced copy.

I do always look forward to the boys Kellerman when they work together. This hero, Clay, seems as if he may be going through some of the same things as the younger author, there is an air of authenticity to his issues of parenthood throughout the story.
The found baby boy, the lost little girl and how their stories intertwine is pretty standard detective stuff. While some of the stuff is pretty quickly recognizable as Kellerman work, there are also some of the really excellent bon mots that I also have some to expect.

There are some fun, if yukky characters, with evocative physical descriptions of them.

I enjoyed this book, maybe not quite as captivating as straight Jon Kellerman - fun nonetheless.

I love the novels that Kellerman father and son write together. They are fast paced and good mysteries. Clay is too funny....

A very good thriller with Coroner Clay Edison working on little sleep, with his new baby causing an uproar in the household, when he is called to a park where bones had been found. The park is under demolition but many people in the area, who have called the park home for years, are protesting the action. The bones are of an infant, lovingly swaddled and left alone, although there is a plastic eye that looks to have come from a stuffed animal. Later a blue bear with a missing eye is found, leaving all involved to wonder why this baby was left here. Soon Clay receives a phone call from a man who believes it maybe his sister, but Clay needs more to go on then that!
Clay searches for answers, meeting some tough folks who live in their own area, refusing to deal with others. Things become stranger and harder to handle, disrupting Clay's life with his wife and daughter, and unleashing secrets of the past that unveil evil doings that have never seen the light of day.
A great look into how the past can effect the future, as a man tries to do his job properly despite fear of attack.

Half Moon Bay kept me up half the night reading this twisted, sometimes confusing, but entertaining book. I never knew a city or county coroner had such an intriguing job.
Jonathan Kellerman and Jesse Kellerman pulled out all the stops with this mind blowing story.

This book was wrote by a father and son. It was very well written with interesting characters and kept my attention till the end. If you like mysteries you will enjoy this book. Thanks Netgalley for this ARC.