Dr. Cate Spencer is on a leave of absence from her position as coroner in Ottawa. She has accepted a contract as a general practitioner in a small town in the Eastern Townships. Of course, there is a murder and she manages to get involved in the investigation. This is a good follow-up to the two previous Dominion Archives Mysteries. Always a treat to read books set in areas settings you know well.

This cozy is a little different. The amateur is a coroner. New one, isn’t it? Cate Spenser, said coroner, has been disciplined and sent to a small town to help at a clinic located at an elite school, Canterbury Day and Boarding. A school she and her brother Jason attended years ago, fended off by a busy and seemingly uncaring father. The clinic had been located in the township, serving everyone. Now housed in the boarding school, the locals are hesitant to access the clinic and looked at Cait as an elite snob like the rest of everyone else who attends the school.

This is a mystery with all of what I call the elements of cozies. It has an amateur sleuth, romantic trauma, a house in the country, an egg man who’s the coroner. You read that right…an egg man/coroner that raises and sells free range eggs. And the story has a dead body, one with a shot right through the eye from a long distance. Cate is itching to get involved because murder or at least the clues surrounding it are her skills. That and she is quite bored at the clinic.

This was a slow start for me. I think it might be because I had a difficult time picturing the concept of why Cate felt she should be involved in the murder investigation. At least I would hate for the reason to be that she felt everyone around was incompetent. Although she did keep repeating how much she could help which could be construed as calling everyone else bad at their job. There was no question she didn’t do it, so saving herself couldn’t have been the reason for sleuthing. She was just trying to help because she was bored.

Mid-book this picked up and held my interest, but the idea of how Cate got herself involved just felt forced.

Honor the Dead by Amy Tector is another gripping mystery in the Dominion Archives series that grabs the reader and won't let go.
The story follows suspended coroner Dr. Cate Spencer as she attempts to pull herself together after a tumultuous summer by moving to small town Quebec, where she fills in as a physician at a clinic on the grounds of her alma mater. Yet Cate cannot ignore her call to help solve a murder mystery that occurs at the last house on her street, in the process putting her re-instatement at her former job in jeopardy.
Full of twists and turns, the mystery sees Cate take some wrong turns as she insinuates herself in the case against the wishes of local police, interviews a wide variety of characters that range from helpful to hateful, and once again researches in the archives. In the background, she struggles to come to terms with her brother's death and her own struggle with alcohol, and secrets on all sides are brought into the light of day.
The addition of a possible treasure of hidden gold, and a dog that turns up at her home in need of help further muddy the waters, and the return of a few characters, if only in passing mention, promises future drama.
Well-written and interspersed with humour, Honor the Dead is another home run for Tector.
I am happy to have received an ARC of #HonortheDead from #NetGalley.

This is book three in the Dominion Archives Mysteries series! I haven't read any of the other books but after reading this one, I'm going to change that!! This book is about A man that was shot through the eye with deadly accuracy. Beside him lies a metal detector. And Dr. Cate Spencer has decided to join the investigation! She digs in heavily after her brother dies in a car accident that she's beginning to think might be suspicious! This book had great suspense, intrigue, action packed, murder, mystery, hidden gold, lots of dark secrets, a fantastic who done it and some crazy twists and turns! The storyline was very interesting and kept me glued to my Kindle! I definitely recommend reading this book as it was well worth reading! Thank you Netgalley and the publisher for sharing this book with me!