Buzz Killer – Tom Straw

When a thief gets charged with murdering his partner, he turns to his defense lawyer for help.  When she teams up with an ex-cop-turned-journalist, she finds that this case has more entanglements than she initially bargained for.  The deeper she digs, the less it becomes about getting her client off and more about saving her own life.

Tom Straw has written quite a few novels prior to Buzz Killer, most under the pen name of Richard Castle.  Now that the show is over and (I assume) those novels have come to an end, Straw released the first work under his own name in over a decade.  While it doesn’t have the built-in appeal of the Castle tie-ins (although there is one sly nod in there somewhere), Straw does a good job of drawing the reader in and making them invest in the investigation.  I’m sure if Straw were to release another offering, especially if it featured the same characters, I’d find a way to acquire said offering.