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The Park Trilogy, Books 1-3

By: C. J. Booth
Narrated by: James Romick
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The Park Trilogy (Olive Park, Crimson Park, Angel Park)

1997.

In the dark woods of Olive Park, in the hills above Sacramento, a California Highway Patrol officer stumbles over a gnarled branch.

But it isn’t a branch.

It is an arm. Reaching up from a shallow grave.

And clutched in the small, desperate hand is a single quarter.

So begins one of the most exhaustive investigations in California history. Yet even with their massive resources, State and Federal authorities fail to find any trace of the killer. After two long years, the case goes cold.

15 years later.

The newly formed Ongoing Investigation Division charged with solving cold cases is unceremoniously handed its first case - The Olive Park Murders.

Detectives Stan Wyld and Jake Steiner, together with assistant Mallory Dimante, reopen the Olive Park case and find nothing new, until their examination of the original burial site turns up one chilling piece of evidence that proves Olive Park is no longer just a cold case.

The truth is much worse. The killer has never stopped and had already picked the next victim when Steiner, Wyld, and Dimante risk all to save the two intended victims, Michael and Jesse Cooper, two children who uncovered the deadly secret of Olive Park.

Following their spectacular success in solving California’s worst serial killer case, a case that had languished unsolved for 15 years, Sacramento’s newly formed cold-case division detectives - Stan Wyld and Jake Steiner with I.T. expert Mallory Dimante - find themselves the toast of the town. Anxious to move on from the rampant publicity, they take on a simple missing person case.

But their search for missing Hollywood film director James Marston pitches them headlong back into the malevolent world of serial killer Ruby Everheart - and into the lives of the killer’s last intended victims, 14 year old Michael and his younger sister Jessie Cooper – two kids who unknowingly possess a secret that will ensnare everyone in a deadly game of cat and mouse with an evil far worse than Ruby Everheart.

Detectives Stan Wyld, Jake Steiner and Mallory Dimante struggle to unravel the mystery of the murder and dismemberment of Hollywood film director James Marston but all they find are more mysteries....

Why has Anna Chase, an 11-year-old middle-schooler living in a small town in New Jersey, seemingly partnered with Ilsa Pokovich, a 50 year-old California felon, to commit murder?

Why has the original detective on the Olive Park case remained quiet all these years?

And why does the answer to everything seem to lie in a stuffed bear rescued from the burned-out trailer of serial killer Ruby Everheart?

What Wyld, Steiner and Dimante find propels them back into a treacherous and dark past. It shakes what they think they know about who they can trust and who they believe. And it forces them into a lethal showdown, protecting Michael and Jessie Cooper…and themselves, from Ruby Everheart’s terrifying teacher.

Angel Park crackles with insistent, heart-stomping energy as it plummets toward a conclusion that will exact a devastating human toll on one of the three detectives of Sacramento, California’s cold case division. It is Wyld, Steiner and Dimante’s ultimate test, for the depravity of serial killer Ruby Everheart pales against the evil they must now confront...and kill.

©2020 C.J. Booth (P)2020 C.J. Booth
Mystery Police Procedural Fiction Cold Case California
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Many times when I buy books, I buy sets. They don't necessarily have to be great, but at least good. This set has me sold on this new (to me) author. I truly enjoyed this trilogy. Give it a listen. I think you'll agree

An author to follow

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I'm glad I got these books as a set instead of individually because the first book aggravated me with the chauvinistic BS. I wouldn't have gone on to the second book if I didn't have the set already. Having said that, the story was sooo good! I really liked the kids' characters. The narration was great. The end was a little sad but that's life.

A must-listen as a set!

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These were the best mystery series that I have read in a long time, really enjoyed! I hope that this series continues!!

Best Mystery

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Lets start with the good. The first books was fantastic story wise and I highly recommend it. It kept me engaged and wanting to hear more.

And now sadly the rest of the review. The narrator wasn't good. Honestly the only way he became tolerable to be was to bump the speed up to 1.5 anything under that was painful. But if the story is good then I'll deal with it as I did in the first book.

Sadly that didn't continue. In boom two we saw glaring continuity errors where the author changed the back story of major characters. Suddenly sex was a main character (not that I'm opposed to that but in this case it didn't add anything) and the story began to get challenging to listen to. I finished the series because I started it not because I wanted to.

So in closing buy Olive Park and forget the other two books exist.

A great start and awful finish

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I very much enjoyed the entire story throughout the three books. I did however keep thinking that Jessie Cooper was my least favorite character, then I would remind myself that she was only six and seven during these events. And that you cannot expect a 6 or 7 year old to always do what they are told, like be quiet or run when they are told to run!

Outstanding Trilogy!

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The beginning of the Olive Park was long , tedious and confusing but I was glad I was rewarded with everything being tied neatly together. I listened to this over every available moment and finished in 3 days. It was a riveting listen. Looking forward to more books by this author

Excellent trilogy

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The story from M’s point of view was believable and exciting. The tension was real. The characters were very enjoyable.

The kids made it really good.

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Entire trilogy has satisfying plots, characters, references to other fine cold case thriller writers. Humor sometimes misses the mark, even when he emphasizes its tongue in cheek.

A new twist on the police procedural

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This series has characters that you care about and characters that you hate
Lots of story lines threading through the books
Didn’t like how totally dense these other wise intelligent characters could be sometimes

Bought the series as box set

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I absolutely loved these books. I was sad when they ended that they were over.

The entire trilogy were the best I've read so far.

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