Review: Madison Square Murders by CS Poe
Growing up, my all time favorite crime TV drama was Cold Case. My mom would rotate through watching them all but none of them ever grabbed my attention the way Cold Case did. I liked the back and forth between time periods and the main detective - Lilly was such a badass. All of that to say, I was very excited to read this book. Madison Square Murders is told from the POV of cold case detective Everett Larkin as he starts a case where a skeleton has been unearthed by a fallen tree in Madison Square Park in New York. With the skeleton, there is a metal death mask which leads him to reaching out to Ira Doyle - a forensics art detective. Larkin is a very interesting character which is clear from the beginning - he has HSAM (highly superior autobiographical memory) from a traumatic brain injury and he is neurodivergent from the way he talks to some of his mannerisms. Doyle is a treat honestly - I liked him from the moment he was introduced, he has a lot of depth and is st...