Review: His Soul to Keep - Melinda Woodhall

Review: His Soul to Keep - Book #1 Frankie Dawson PI - Melinda Woodhall - November 2022

I am a big fan of Melinda Woodhall's series as I have read and completed almost four of her series and so when I saw that Frankie Dawson who I had met in her other books was getting his spin-off, there was no doubt about that I was going to read it. In this book, Frankie Dawson's marriage is on the rocks and he has just gotten a phone call and email to say an old friend Dwight is dying and hasn't got long left. Frankie heads to his hometown and is too late as he finds that Dwight and Cheryl have been murdered. He ends up being narrowed on as the main suspect, but of course, the only one who knows the truth is Josie- Dwight and Cheryl's daughter and she is being hunted too. Can Frankie protect them both and discover what is happening as he soon finds himself right in the middle of a decades-long serial killer known as The Wolf Creek Killer murder spree. The killer also connects to Frankie as the killer killed his sister Frannie made it look like a drug overdose and sent Frannie's best friend Lacey to prison for her boyfriend's murder despite her innocence. I enjoyed this one and the twists and was good to see Frankie back in action as though he is always miscast as a villain, he is someone who is a genuinely nice guy who wants to help solve crimes and find the real "villains", not the innocent ones like himself who were thrown under the bus and used as scapegoats. PS - I also loved his sidekick, a dog named Sherlock. I am now looking forward to reading more of Frankie's series and hopping onto Bailey Flynn's also.

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