Very impressed with this author and her work! This was a page turner for me! Not what I had expected but what I needed when reading these types of books! Highly recommended!

This reminded me a lot of the Kate Burkholder books except without the Amish. It’s a stand alone book, but I definitely would have enjoyed it more if I had read the others in the series first. This one was on my Netgalley shelf since 2015, so I’m guessing I didn’t know it was part of a series when I requested the book back then. Looking forward to reading the others.

I was hooked on this book from the beginning as Nan's teenage daughter is dramatically involved in a very grown up world of homicide. Investigator Nan Vining has a new experience to cope with--trying to keep the grisly world she inhabits from seeping into her family life. Highly suspenseful, well written, engaging to the last page.

I love a good mystery with a female detective. Nan Vining is the female detective in the Pasadena Police Force. She is raising a teenage daughter and her ex-husband lives nearby with his new wife and two sons.

Emily Vining is out with her boyfriend Ashton when then discover two bodies. Nan is supposed to be on vacation but is called in to help with this discovery. The bodies are of a favorite teacher of Emily’s and a male student the teacher was trying to help. It looks like a clear case of murder/suicide but Nan is not so sure.

The husband of the teacher is also a police officer but his background is on the shady side. He says he didn’t do it but isn’t the spouse always the prime suspect? The case is close so fast that Nan is now sure that there is more to it. With her and her daughter’s life in danger, she goes to her ex-husband to keep their daughter safe while she pursues the answer.

The book intertwines past history with the present to give the reader a story that is hard to put down.

I read the first three Nan Vining mysteries as quickly as I could find them and enjoyed them very much. I was eager to read her fourth, Love Kills, and was a little disappointed. It didn't seem to rise to the level of her other books. After reading Lying Blind, and loving it, I realized I had missed Killing Secrets. I'm so glad I was able to read it. This is where the Nan Vining mysteries went back to the great plot and writing of her first three. I love Nan's relationship with her bright daughter, Emily, a high school student in this book. The plot is sharp and brisk, and the story shows Nan's strength of character and intuition. If you enjoy police procedurals with great characters, you will love Killing Secrets and the other Nan Vining books.