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Book Review
Reviewed: 09 October 2025

A Deadly Clue

by: Victoria Gilbert

Hunter and Clewe - Book 3

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I have enjoyed this series from the beginning. The imperfect main characters have grown on me. Their friendship and sleuthing prowess have continued to grow, complementing each other’s strengths and weaknesses. They are stretched as they juggle a couple of murders, emotional challenges, and work. Bailey, Jane’s daughter, is a worldwide, breezing in and cutting the point where others dance around. She is definitely her mother’s daughter with her moxy. Glad to see that Taylor is still around.

This story had a bit more darkness to it; it needed to force an outcome.I didn’t try to guess who or why, I just tucked for the ride.  I look forward to seeing what is next in store for this sleuthing team.

Thank you, #NetGalley and #CrookedLaneBooks, for the opportunity to do an early read and share my thoughts on the story. 

Happy Reading!

Release Date: 13-January-2026
Cozy Mystery, NetGalley, Mystery

Plot Summary

unter and Clewe are back in the third Hunter and Clewe mystery, from acclaimed author Victoria Gilbert, when a closed case is reopened after another member of a prominent family is murdered.

Cameron Clewe and Jane Hunter, lovers of all things bookish, are slowly cataloguing Cam’s private collection of first edition books acquired from the deceased patriarch of the wealthy Stewart family. When Jane finds a note from Kimberly Stewart Ward, one of the daughters of the Stewart patriarch–who supposedly committed suicide–she discovers someone was actually targeting her with the intention of killing her.  

Jane and Cam decide to look into the supposedly closed case, but their investigation becomes urgent when another member of the Stewart family is found dead from a drug overdose. The victim’s friends claim he’d been clean and sober for years and refuse to accept the cause of death. 

Believing both cases to be connected, Jane and Cam resolve to solve them before any other direct heirs of the family are targeted.