Chain of Evidence

It was a little slow getting into the book, but about a quarter way through picked up and kept me reading page after page. I wasn’t sure if I was going to like the book as I really do not like reading stories where the police officer is the bad guy. Ended up really enjoying the book. The ending had......more

Pearson has great ideas for mysteries and this one is no exception. A suicide is suspicious in nature and Officer Dartelli (Dart) realizes that he dropped the ball in the first of what has become a chain of suicides. Now at risk for having his mistake (which is somewhat intentional) ending his caree......more

This was a decent book, but I felt like I was missing something, like there was an earlier book that introduced these characters and their backstories. The focus here is on Joe Dartelli, a detective who finds an odd pattern to suicides being investigated by his department, particularly ones where a......more

Chain of Evidence by Ridley Pearson was a well written thriller with excellent character development. The plot involved an interesting twist in having a detective investigating murder cases pointing to a suspect who happened to be a retired police sergeant that had been his mentor. Since the crime s......more

Detective Joe Dartelli is called in on the investigation of an apparent suicide. He immediately becomes suspicious that it was really murder. Thus starts a thrilling story that deals with sex offenders, justice, the intricacies required of law-enforcement agencies to gather a conviction, which are m......more