Measureless Night by Chris Culver (Book Review)

Measureless Night by Chris Culver
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

I received an ARC of this book through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

This is my first Ash Rashid novel,  but I see it is #4 in a series.

It started out well, but at about the 50% mark it seemed to get loose, like somebody stopped halfway through a rewrite. For example, another detective tells Ash they picked his family up for protection, but a few pages later they're right where they had been and Ash picks his daughter up from school. In another spot he makes sure there is a round in the chamber, and then a couple of paragraphs later he chambers a round. Little things that made the story not quite tight and pulled me out of it, and I don’t know how much of that is due to final proofing not being done yet. The final chapter was disappointing. The author stopped showing and started telling, issuing a clinical wrapup with no real life in it, more like a closing a case file than ending a story. The outcome of the city-wide attack wasn't very believable.

I liked the peeks into the life of a Muslim family, giving me some understanding of customs and beliefs as well as the prejudices they face in America. The inclusion of Santa Muerte was also a treat, although I wish she wasn't strictly associated with criminals.

Overall, though, an enjoyable police procedural mystery; I'll check out the first three in the series.


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