Book Review: Indigo Ridge by Devney Perry

Indigo Ridge by Devney Perry
Publisher: Devney Perry LLC
Publication Date: October 26, 2021
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

Publisher’s Description:

Winslow Covington believes in life, liberty and the letter of the law. As Quincy, Montana’s new chief of police, she’s determined to prove herself to the community and show them she didn’t earn her position because her grandfather is the mayor.

According to her pops, all she has to do is earn favor with the Edens. But winning over the town’s founding family might have been easier if not for her one-night stand with their oldest son. In her defense, it was her first night in town and she didn’t realize that the rugged and charming man who wooed her into bed was Quincy royalty.

Sleeping with Griffin Eden was a huge mistake, one she’s trying to forget. He’s insufferable, arrogant and keeps reminding everyone that she’s an outsider. Winslow does her best to avoid Griffin, but when a woman is found dead on Eden property, the two of them have no choice but to cross paths. As clues to the murderer lead to one of Quincy’s own,

Griffin realizes Winslow is more than he gave her credit for. Beautiful and intelligent, she proves hard to resist. For him. And the killer.

Winslow Covington is new chief of police in Quincy, Montana. Quincy is a small town, and the other police officers are not happy that their new boss is a woman.

When a young woman is found dead at the base of Indigo Ridge, it’s assumed that she jumped to her death, like other girls have done over the years. Winslow is not buying it and she starts an investigation. Her officers and prominent members of the community think she’s wasting her time.

To complicate things Winslow had a one-night stand with Griffen Eden, the owner of the land where the young woman was found and a member of the town’s founding family, her first night in town. They each assumed the other was a tourist and would never have hooked up if they knew who the other one really was. Even though it’s not a good idea to keep things going given their positions in town, they can’t stay away from each other.

Indigo Ridge is both a romance and a thriller. I don’t think there was room for both, at least not the way the author wrote it. The investigation into if the young woman’s death was really a suicide dragged because it kept getting interrupted by the romantic bits.

The writing was simplistic, relying on trite metaphors that had me groaning. I don’t expect lyrical or poetic prose from a romance or thriller, but it definitely could have been better than it was.

Indigo Ridge is the first book in a series that I won’t be continuing.