When I’m Dead

by Hannah Morrissey

Publisher: Minotaur Books
Ginasbookreport Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Genre: Mystery / Psychological Thriller 
Read This If You Love: A Flicker in the Dark / Lisa Jewell books

“If we find the killer, we find Chloe. If we find the killer, we find Chloe.”

When I’m Dead is the third book in Morrissey’s Black Harbor series. Like the many books and TV series that focus around a small village in the UK, this one is set stateside in a tiny town in Wisconsin that has an astronomical crime rate. (Seriously, they are going to run out of people to murder if this series keeps going.) Against the backdrop of a dark and spooky October night, Rowan (the medical examiner) and her husband Axel (a detective) are called out to investigate the body of their daughter’s best friend. Who could have committed this vicious act and why? Making it all more mysterious, Chloe disappears the same night. From there, it is all about finding the killer to find Chloe.

While this book is in a series, I read it as a standalone book and had no issues following the larger story. When I’m Dead is a good novel for fans of police procedurals and fans of Hannah Morrissey.