SYNOPSIS:

Sin City has it all. Including a Serial Killer targeting police officers and their families.

Given the stakes, former homicide detective Ransom Walsh can’t afford to stay on the sidelines. The city he served for 20 years hasn’t slowed down since retirement and his skills as a former homicide detective are needed now more than ever.

Ransom teams up with his former partner, Leesa Gardner, to chase down the murderer before another devastating blow is struck against the community and law enforcement.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Rusty Ellis is the eldest of seven children born to Paul and Shari Ellis. He grew up living in a number of different cities, due to his father's career in the U.S. Air Force. Rusty has lived in California (where he was born), Utah, Florida, Alaska, Virginia, Idaho, Wyoming, and in Las Vegas, Nevada, where he now resides. Rusty met his wife in Rexburg, Idaho, while attending college. The two were married a short time after (six months later!) and have continued to date and court to this day. Rusty and DaLea have six children, five daughters-in-law, one son-in-law, and eight grandchildren (with two more on the way). DaLea is employed as a Realtor and Rusty retired from active law enforcement duty in 2018. Rusty wrote his first book in 2005, The Blank Slate. He is about a third the way through his second novelette, The Escaped Convert, and with the encouragement of his wife, this should be 'shortly' on its way to being published. Rusty publishes short family stories and articles on his website (rustyellis.com) and on Medium.com. He enjoys spending time with his family, his two dogs, hunting deer with his friends, and riding his Victory motorcycle.

MY REVIEW:

Picture Perfect Murder (The Ransom Walsh Series Book 1) by Rusty Ellis

Story starts out with a patrolman, Ransom in Vegas and he's stopped along the road, sees people sitting in their car but things aren't right...
Lisa Briggs and her partner Gabe show up and investigate the scene of his grandkids and daughter and her spouse in the car...
We also learn about his past with his wife and child. They investage the couples house also and this sounds like something that happened to a cousin of mine-terrifying!
Terrifying to learn how these are all connected...details are so descriptive that the author makes you feel like you are there experiencing it all yourself.
Passenger seat therapy-love it! About the author and other works are highlighted at the end. Eash to follow along, handful of characters.
Received this review copy from the author via Goodreads contact and this is my honest opinion.

SYNOPSIS

The struggle between Power and Justice: a prostitute, a homeless man, a politician, and murder. The most unlikely of witnesses pull Ransom out of retirement and back to the streets of Las Vegas. The former homicide detective must uncover who is leaking tips about the case and the murders…his former partner, his girlfriend, a Senator? Who can he trust?

The killer serves a higher calling. Those sacrificed for the greater good of the people. Some lives are simply more disposable than others. Their value to society making them invisible.

Ransom sifts through an improbable group of witnesses, victims, and suspects; a strange mixture of water and oil. Individuals never likely to meet. Individuals never likely to find themselves in the same discussion. The only common ground: murder.

Entitlement. Privilege. The self-prescribed Political Elite.

Shunning class and status, Ransom’s only drive is to satisfy the plea of the voiceless victims, no matter where the gavel lands. A life is a life. Ransom squares off against his arrogant foe, to bring the killer to justice, to keep him from slipping through his fingers and answering for his crimes…

MY REVIEW

Politics of Murder by Rusty Ellis
This story starts with the scene of where the body is found. As the story goes on the book goes back in time to the events that led up to that point.
Love that the eye witness can really nail the one who did it. So many clues as Ransom and his side kick Lisa track them down as they head them to many involved.
Like the characters as I am now familiar with them and their personal iifes. So realistic!
Like how the story got it's title, so fitting! So deailed you feel as if you are there. Other works by they author and about the author are included at the end.
Can't wait to read in this series. Easy to follow along, handful of characters.
Received this review copy from the author via Goodreads contact and this is my honest opinion.