Tangled Secrets: A Gabi Espinosa Mystery

• Title: Tangled Secrets: A Gabi Espinosa Mystery
• Author: Virginia Kelly
• ASIN: B0CSNQVNCN
• Publisher: Independently published
• Date Published:Jan. 17 2024
• ISBN-13: 979-8875940347
• Genre: Mystery
• Website:   https://www.virginiakelly.net/

Description (from Amazon.ca)

Turner’s Crossroads, where nothing happens… Until it does.

Reeling from her husband’s murder, librarian Gabriela Espinosa took her young daughter and sought refuge in the perceived safety of her tiny hometown in the Florida Panhandle. Six years later, the murder of her best friend shatters her sense of security and threatens the walls Gabi built to protect herself from grief.

Suspicion falls on an old friend of her late father’s. Though the man is troubled, Gabi believes he’s incapable of violence. In his defense, she begins asking questions which put her at odds with the local sheriff’s department and a mysterious new deputy.

As she uncovers a tangle of complicated relationships, there’s a second murder. With fear resonating through the town’s sleepy façade, Gabi confronts a dark past that lays bare Turner’s Crossroads’ secrets, putting her, and her daughter, in danger.

My Thoughts

Virginia Kelly is a new to me author who writes romantic suspense and mystery. Her latest book “Tangled Secrets” will not disappoint. This is the first novel in the Gabi Espinosa Mystery series set in the Florida Panhandle and introduces Gabi Espinosa. Gabi returns to Turner’s Crossroads after her husband’s murder to take on the position of librarian. Turner’s Crossroads gave her a sense of security but when her best friend is murdered, this sense of security is shattered.

At first glance, I truly thought this was going to be a long read being forty-four chapters. I was pleasantly surprised however, when I was whipping through each chapter. It was so well written, I couldn’t put it down. It grabs the reader’s attention quickly and keeps it until the very end. Characters are well developed and the storyline flows so easily. There was plenty of plot twists, I couldn’t figure out who the culprit was. Readers of mystery will not be disappointed. I am looking forward to reading the second novel in the series.

Rating: 4

Review by: KellyR