Book review: Broke Road by Matthew Spencer
I very much enjoyed Broke Road by Matthew Spencer though must confess I remembered little detail from the first book of the series, Black River, published in 2022. I really liked our lead, Rose Riley—a detective who seems to be a roaming homicide squad detective—here partnered with Priya Patel and on the trail of a killer. I did remember Adam Bowman quite well, who described himself [in the first book] as a mediocre journalist whose career was going nowhere fast. The case in Black River was quite personal as it took him back to his hometown where his brother had died and family fallen apart years earlier. When he reappears here he’s found some fame and fortune from a true crime book based on Riley’s investigation.
