Tadiana ✩Night Owl☽'s Reviews > City of Angels

3.5 stars. This is the first in a 6-book detective series, with an unusual LDS (Mormon) religious twist to it. I've enjoyed some of this author's later books, so when I found that my local library had (most of) this series, I decided to check them out.

Our main character is private investigator Rhea Jensen, who despite being only in her twenties is already a highly accomplished investigator with a gift for breaking into homes and computers to find the evidence. The case she's working on in this first book is an embezzlement case that gets unexpectedly complicated and dangerous.

But as much or more time is spent on Rhea's personal life. She's gorgeous, talented and incredibly physically fit, but is stuck in a rut with a seemingly hopeless crush on her old friend Ben, an aspiring musician. Sometimes he acts like he wants her, and then he jumps into yet another relationship with another woman.

To make things more complicated, Rhea starts talking with some LDS missionaries on the street one day. At first she blows them off, but then things happen and she starts thinking, maybe she should take a harder look at this religion?

It's a bit of a quirky mix with these disparate elements, but the author handles them pretty well and she's a capable writer who can spin an interesting, fast-paced plot. This is in the LDS fiction genre and will probably appeal mostly to readers interested in that.