My Review of Bay Area-Based Mystery, Dead Code (and Giveaway!)

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I’ve been reading through a lengthy backlog of books. I received Dead Code by Glenda Carroll. If you can believe it, I received her book to review in 2021 (!), and I only just now finished it. This book made me so glad I took the time to start through this list of books.

Dead Code focuses on a mystery that the main character, Trisha Carson, accidentally stumbles into when she learns her landlord’s grandson is missing. Of course, she is never one to stay away from a problem but run towards it (to help, of course!). She is determined to figure out the mystery and find out what happened to him.

There was so much I loved about this book. First of all, the author set it in one of my favorite places: San Francisco Bay Area. It gave me nostalgia to read about the fog, the coast, and the Giants games. If I could afford to live anywhere, I’d love to live in that area. I grew up in San Jose, which is a stone’s throw away from the area, and reading this book gave me such a longing. Kudos to the author for capturing the setting!

As for the mystery, I was so impressed. Trisha has to deal with so much! She is stalked by a blue-eyed hunk that she thinks is cute but thinks there is something off about him. It isn’t helping that he shows up everywhere. Then, she’s trying to learn what happened to that missing guy but no one seems to want her to find out what happened. It doesn’t help she has been involved in some other mysteries that make everyone worry about her. But she can’t let this one go! In the midst of all this, she is getting hacked into, and weird things are happening to her high-tech fridge.

One aspect that frustrated me was how Trisha handled things with her boyfriend. I wish she had opened up to him and let him in! He seemed like a nice guy. But this is a series and I’m hoping that things change in the next book.

This is part of a series but can easily be read as a stand-alone. Thank you to the author for sending me copy. I’m excited to give a copy away to one lucky reader too.

Purchase a copy of Dead Code by Glenda Carroll on Amazon or Bookshop.org. Add it to your GoodReads reading list. Be sure to visit the author on her website, too!

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