Cold Path

Cold Path Melissa F. Miller Mystery Thriller Melissa Miller's fifth Bodhi King Novel grabs the reader's attention moving her readers between the present time and time 150 years in the past. Miller transitions back and for explaining the life of the preserved female body in an iron casket from the Reconstruction Era of the 1800s. Readers learn about the details of what was going in in the 1800s with Miller's including letters from Louisa Anne Rutherford to Isaiah Bell describing the events of the time. Readers meet Bodhi King with Bette Clarke, his girlfriend travel to Alabama for Law Enforcement conference for police chiefs. While Clarke attends the conference Bodhi takes a walk through the garden at the resort and following a hiking trail he meets Dr. Davania Jones. Jones an archaeologist who has discovered the iron casket with the preserved female sealed inside. Dr. Jones is looking for a forensic Pathologist to examine the body. The storyline has many twists and turns involving the growth of Bodhi and Bette budding relationship as while their meeting Eliza Rollins, a former classmate, and forensic pathologists. Miller's readers have met Eliza in an earlier book and the author explains a little of their history adding the suspense of the storyline. Bodhi and Eliza agree to examine Dr. Jones's discovery. Bodhi and Eliza work on the mysteries around the contents of the iron casket leaving Bette to attend the police chief conference. Dr. Jones discovers a broach which is an identical design to a necklace that she inherited from her grandmother. The discovery leads to a potential connection between the female body and the living members of the Rutherford family. The suspense builds as Sully Rutherford and his grandmother try to block any further investigation. Mrs. Rutherford heads the Family Foundation and is in charge of Dr. Jones's archaeological site and tries to discredit Dr. Jones. Before anyone can uncover any more details about the body someone murders Dr. Jones. The plot keeps building with some predictability that causes Bodhi and Eliza to bend the rules a little to find out the truth about the identity of the body in the iron casket and who murdered Dr. Jones. Melissa Miller skillfully kept the storyline moving and a fast pace and did a great job of the ongoing development of Bodhi. Following the growth of Bodhi and his friends has kept the series fresh and full of surprises. I recommend Cold Path and look forward to the next addition to the series.

Bodhi accompanies Bette to a convention in Alabama for small town police chiefs. There he happens to meet Davina, an archaeological professor who recently discovered a dead body and needs assistance. Unfortunately, the unearthing of this body seems to cause a stir, and some would rather it was forgotten about entirely. Something Bodhi and Davina are not willing to do. I really enjoyed this book. The whole possibility of finding a body like this one was intriguing! And I loved reading the letters at the start of some chapters, it gave more history to the story. Bodhi's thought processes are a big part of who he is, and how he reacts in certain situations is not the norm for most people. I always find it interesting to read. His beliefs really force him to think things through before acting. I loved seeing Eliza again in this one, and getting more insight into the dynamic of Bodhi and Bette's relationship. Great read and I would love to read more of Bodhi's story.

I really liked how not only do we have a murder to solve but we also get to see Bodhi have the tables turned on him some what with getting life advice instead of giving it like he usually does. This is a great twisted tale in regards to who it is in the iron coffin along with who can be trusted and who is hiding something and I was nicely surprised with who was who. I felt like we really got to know Bodhi on a much more intimate level with book as well as she him have a few revelations of his own and this along with the murder made a fantastic read!