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I really wanted to like Code Violation by Ruth Stilling, I really did. But unfortunately, this book has now taken the place that Mile High was previously holding in my personal hall of books I simply could not get behind.

There are plenty of books that promise to reinvent the murder mystery genre. Few actually do. Eight Detectives by Alex Pavesi (2020) is one of the rare exceptions: a novel that doesn't simply tell a mystery but examines why mysteries work in the first place.