THRILLING police procedural with great characterization, plot & suspense throughout. RECOMMEND the whole series highly. Thanks to #NetGalley & #Bookouture for the ARC in return for my honest review.

Jennifer Chase has created such a lovable character in Katie Scott you can't help but being sucked in her world.

The police procedural story involving a cold case of a whole family buried in a basement is simply phenomenal and if there is a Katie Scott out there I would love to meet her! ;)
Failing that, I will have to be satisfied with having to wait eagerly for the next book in the series. Until then, I will miss her and her K9 companion Cisco along with the rest of her team.
Absolutely pure pleasure....

Another great book in the series! The only problem is waiting for the next one to continue the saga!

If you enjoy police procedural books with detail description and fast paced mystery thriller then you should check this one out!

This is not the first time I'm reading the Detective Scott series, it's good to be back with Detective Scott and her K9 companion, Cisco!

I always like the way the author describe and explain every clue and every theories they had to solve the case.
With a fast pacing, short chapters and intriguing two murder mystery case I could barely put this book down!

While I love most of the things here, I felt a bit disappointed that the ending felt too rushed. It ended too abruptly without detail explanation like I hoped for in the beginning.

Nonetheless, I still enjoy reading this book. The suspense and mystery element keep me interested throughout the story to find out who done it.
I'll keep an eye out for the next book in this series!

Actual rating: 3.5⭐

Huge thank you to Netgalley, Jennifer Chase and Bookouture for granting this review copy to me. I'm leaving this honest review voluntarily!

Thrilling. Tense. Packed full of suspense. Just wow. Loved loved loved this one. Very highly recommend this series and this book.

This installment in the series isn’t as gripping to me as most were. I didn’t care for the plot but it was tied up well
Thank you netgalley and the publisher for this arc

Katie races to the scene of a fire - the bones of a family unearthed. A decades old cold case. So many suspects but no clear motive.
I love these characters. Highly recommend.

A fire blazes through the empty house, but is the house really empty? Cold case detectives Katie Scott and her partner Sean McGaven are called to the fire scene along with her fiancé and fire investigator, Chad Ferguson. As Katie inspects the basement, she notices three small bones sticking up from the dirt floor. This has now become a homicide investigation. When they find more bodies, this also reopens a cold case from years ago. Who killed these people and why? When the current and past seem to come together, law enforcement members come under attack, but why? Is a twisted killer or killers determined to stop the investigation? When one of their own becomes the next victim, Katie and her team will not stop until the killer is in custody or dead. An amazing police procedural with a family of continuing characters who work seamlessly together to find the killer. I received an advance review copy at no cost and without obligation for an honest review. (paytonpuppy)

Three Small Books by Jennifer Chase had me hooked on to the story till the last page This book is the eght in the series featuring Detective Katie Scott. This can be every well enjoyed as a standalone story too.

Since I first read one of the earlier books of Katie Scott in the series, I have loved her. She is part of the team that investigates the missing persons cases. Along with her partner Mc Gaven she pursues the case relentlessly till the culprit is brought to the fore.

This story starts with the discovery of three small bones in a house with a fire disacster which puts her and Chad on the same case. The investigation of arson leads to a really twisted case. For more details read the story and you will not regret it.

The twisted plot, so many different angles to the missing persons and the arson case and the comraderie and the working chemistry between the partners is all a great reason to read the story and this time the ending is a real thrilling part.

I would like to thank Bookouture and the author for accepting my request to review the book and I thoroughly enjoyed it. All opinions expressed are mine alone.

Detective Katie Scott is one of my favourite detective series. She will fight tooth and nail to find out what happened in her cases. She is a bit of a wildcard as she regularly runs into danger and doesn't think about the consequences but she always does it with the thought of catching the killer. This may be the 8th book in the series but you could read it as a standalone.

This case was fascinating and every time Katie and the team discovered a new clue it became weirder and weirder. When members of the team started being targeted the tension just skyrocketed. I was eagerly swiping page after page in a desperate attempt to make sure everyone was okay. Like if I finished it quickly enough it would save someone.

Jennifer really drew me into the case and held my attention. The story was very fast-paced. It was very easy to sit here and read chapter after chapter and not notice how long I had been sitting still for!

Another excellent addition to the series. Thank you to Bookouture for my copy of this book via NetGalley and for letting me take part in this tour.

I had not read any Jennifer Chase books prior to this one, never mind any in her Katie Scott series!
This is Book 8, so we have Katie well established as the main protagonist. I didn't feel like I had missed anything though, aside from the actual experience of seeing the character develop through the series. Katie Scott is a strong character on which to base a series.
This case is a memorable and intriguing one, and the pacing was perfect for the story of an unusual police procedural novel.
I couldn't see where the resolution would come from.
I enjoyed the ending too and I will be interested to read the next installment in the series.

Three Small Bones by Jennifer Chase
Detective Katie Scott #8

Old bones and a few newer ones join a few current murder cases that may or may not overlap as Katie and her work partner, McGaven, tackle a new police procedural who-done-it.

What I liked:
* Katie: ex-military, K-9 handler and owner of ex-military K-9 Cisco, niece of local sheriff, engaged to Chad, suffers from PTSD, sees overall pictures, great puzzle solver, invested in her work, impulsive at times
* Ciscso: K-9 partner, retired from military, companion to Katie, skilled at his job, loving and protective
* Chad: firefighter, new arson inspector, Katie’s childhood friend and fiancé, didn’t see a lot of him but he seems a good match for Katie
* McGaven: detective, Katie’s work partner, calm presence, good balance to Katie, in a relationship with Denise
* John: forensics specialist, ex-Navy SEAL, hit hard by one death in this story, has chemistry with Katie not acted on
* Sheriff Scott: Katie’s uncle, experienced, wise, protective, in charge, cares for his team, strong, takes care of Cisco if Katie is busy, good man
* The way the team worked together
* The police procedural aspects of the story
* That it was easy to know the victims and wish Karma would smack the evil doers
* The red herrings, twists, and turns
* The way the various cases in this story were eventually solved
* Knowing that there will be another book in the series soon

What I didn’t like:
* Who and what I was meant not to like
* Thinking about the way the minds of murderers must work…and their careless disregard of human life
* The pain and loss experienced by more than one character in the book.

Did I enjoy this book? Yes
Would I read more in this series? Yes

Thank you to NetGalley and Bookouture for the ARC – This is my honest review.

5 Stars

The Detective Katie Scott series is a very good one and I have been enjoying it immensely. I can't believe it is already book 8 though! You can read this book as a standalone but it is better if you read the whole series, of course.

The case revolves around the discovery of bodies at a property - one of them from years ago and the others from a more recent time. How they are connected and who has killed them, is a question that is going to take lots of puzzling and police work from Katie and McGovern to figure out. This is what they are best at, however, it is one heck of a mystery to solve.

A very solid police procedural and an exciting end to the case. The only niggle for me was that Chad didn't make too much of an appearance. For two people who are engaged, they don't spend much time together! I know they are busy but I would still like to see him a little more, just saying :) I loved Cisco, as always. I am a cat person, but if I were to get a dog, I think a German Shepherd might be the way to go!

4.5 stars from me.

Thank you to NetGalley and Bookouture.

What a gripping read this proved to be,
Filled with suspense and mystery.
Detective Katie Scott and her K-9 Cisco, too,
Have lots of things to sort through!

A house fire reveals human remains hidden there
Buried in the basement - are there others elsewhere?
A killer determined to hide his deeds
Can they catch him or will he succeed?

A page turner read that had me enthralled from the start
One in which support and friendship play a big part.
There's also family tragedy and mystery
Enwrapped in secret history.

An intriguing, gripping story I enjoyed throughout
So about highly recommending it I have absolutely no doubt.
For my complementary copy of this book, I say thank you,
I throughly enjoyed reading it and this is my honest review.

This book is probably my favorite so far in the Katie Scott series! The action is so fast-paced right from the beginning, it didn’t take me long at all to devour it. There was so much going on and so many different leads, things didn’t up, even for a second, but I didn’t feel overwhelmed. Jennifer Chase is a seasoned author and knows how to keep things under control for her readers. The ending was also great, with enough suspects to keep you guessing until the reveal at the end.

As far as the regular characters, we don’t get too much development in this book, since they’re running around so much, but we do see Katie and Chad get even closer, I can’t I’ve away too many details. I liked that because we don’t normally get a lot of tender scenes between them.

Overall, this is another knock-out winner in one of my favorite mystery-thriller series! This series just keeps getting better and better!

Detective Katie Scott is in the midst of painting her house when she is called to what ends up being a gruesome crime scene. Despite the fact that she and fiancé Chad are planning to buy a house together, she feels impelled to fix up the house she is in now, rather reluctant give it up.

Before Katie can finish her paint job, she is called to the scene of a fire. While Chad is there in his capacity of fighting fires, Katie is there for an entirely different reason. At the scene of the devastating fire, human remains were found. As Katie starts to uncover the scene, she discovers that the bones were the remains of more than one person, several in fact.

Katie struggles to determine the order of events. Were the people killed and the fire set in order for the bodies to be unearthed? Or were there two separate crimes there? Katie works nonstop to find the answers she needs, and this starts with identifying the bodies. As her investigation continues, she learns that the last residents of the home were the Cross family. Katie is hoping to find there whereabouts now and truly hopes they were not the bodies found.

Sadly, these are not the only bones that were discovered. Soon, the bodies of two small girls were found, but the examination later proved that these bodies were not buried at the same time. Katie definitely has a quandary on her hands. Unfortunately, her leads keep coming up empty, but Katie never lets up. Interviewing anyone connected to the home and to the Cross family, Katie slowly begins to put the clues together that will solve this cases that are apparently connected.

What a thrilling addition to the exciting Detective Katie Scott series. I have read and loved every previous title in this series and found this latest installment to be just as engaging. Just as chilling. Just as impossible to put down. Katie has proved to be a compelling protagonist, and often has bouts with PTSD from her time in the armed forces. Thankfully, she has her K9 partner Cisco as an amazing support dog who also proves useful during the course of this investigation. Along with Cisco being at Katie's side, she also has her reliable partner McGaven with her every step of the way.

Many thanks Bookouture to and to NetGalley for this ARC for review. This is my honest opinion.

Katie is in the middle of revamping her farmhouse when she’s called to investigate an abandoned house fire. Turns out the house coughs up some secrets, in the make of bodies.
It is super easy to slide back in with Katie Scott. I was ready for the next case. I had narrowed down the list of suspects, but was unsure who it actually was, until it’s revealed in the book.
Katie and Chad work on the same case for the first time and there’s a different element from that.
Cisco didn’t really play a prominent role and I miss the pup. His eagerness to work is infectious.
What’s In store for Katie next??

Detective Katie Scott is back with a puzzling cold case. When a suspicious fire breaks out at a rental house and bodies are found. But they are not the only bodies on the property. The problem is it appears at least one set of remains was buried at a different time to the others.

And just as Katie and her partner McGaven begin to consider this shocking revelation. Katie has to deal with the fact she's working with her fiancée Chad. Who has been assigned as the arson investigator. But the pair have a rule to keep work and their private lives separate.

Yet, when Katie receives a desperate call from a colleague that someone close to the team has been murdered. All rules are thrown out of the window.

And as the body count rises so do the threats, and with a killer who will stop at nothing to ensure they stay out of jail, lots of procedural detail, and a high stakes confrontation. This was an enjoyable read and great addition to the series.

Another great read in this gripping crime series.
Detective Katie Scott is called out to a house fire and whilst checking out the house she discovers the remains of a hand sticking out of the ground.
On further investigation the team find three bodies and another one nearby.
Chad is investigating the cause of the fire and Katie and McGaven are looking into how the bodies ended up there.
Several people are spoken to but Katie thinks she’s missing something, especially when the identities of the victims are revealed.
It seems they are getting too close to the killer as they start targeting people on the investigation and they all soon have to watch out for each other.
There’s a few shocks throughout the book and it definitely had me on the edge of my seat.
Thanks to Bookouture and NetGalley for the opportunity to read this book.

I would like to thank Netgalley and Bookouture for an advance copy of Three Small Bones, the eighth novel to feature Detective Katie Scott of the Pine Valley, Northern California’s Sheriff’s Office.

A house catches fire and arson is suspected. More worryingly the firefighters uncover human bones in the basement. Investigation of the bones uncovers two decaying bodies and further investigation uncovers two more, these ones children. This is a further mystery as the children’s bodies were buried years apart.

I thoroughly enjoyed Three Small Bones, which is an event filled read with some interesting twists and turns. It should be noted for those of a squeamish nature that this novel has a higher body count and more violence than most novels in the series, although it is not overly graphic.

I like the premise of two murders years apart getting mixed up together and it works well with Katie seeing the first one as the key to the second. It mixes her cold case expertise with a present day investigation. The details may vary and some of them are a bit shocking but this is a standard procedural in the sense that it starts with a need to identify the bodies, a wide open field of suspects and a few characters acting suspiciously. The perpetrator’s identity is guessable but the motive is fairly elusive despite several clues in the narrative. The final action scenes are tense and slightly stressful as it becomes personal to Katie.
This is a fast moving novel, hardly offering the reader time to breathe before the next event.

Katie and her coworkers are by now old friends. They are nice people but not particularly nuanced, not that this is important as the novel is all about the plot. On the personal front Katie has some friction with her fiancé, Chad about their future living arrangements. I have no understanding of why they don’t live together already.

Three Small Bones is a good read that I have no hesitation in recommending.