Minotaur
Published August 12, 2025
Reviewed by Barbara Fister
Former Chicago police detective and current private investigator Annalisa Vega is surprised when her brother Alex contacts her, asking her to visit. They haven’t been close since she turned him in for murder, but she drives to his downstate Illinois prison to see him. He has a request. Another inmate, a man who used to mow her family’s lawn, claims he’s innocent of the murder that landed him in the joint, and he and Annalisa’s brother wants her to look into it. Joe Green is certain the one witness that the prosecution depended on lied, and he recently received an anonymous note backing up his claim. While it’s far from definitive proof, a PI he hired previously learned very little – except that the witness didn’t own a dog, a dog she supposedly was walking late at night when she saw the murder. An added wrinkle: it was Nick, Annalisa’s husband, who made the dubious arrest years ago. But she agrees to take the case, and it leads to a much more tangled tale than she can imagine, one tied to an unsolved case from decades ago.