It’s February, and that means it’s time for a mystery and thriller round-up! And before I start, you should jump over to my February 26 Facebook event, where if you mark your attendance as “going” you qualify for the various prize draws I will be holding.
On to the books!
She Was At Risk
Zachary has done his very best to let go of ex-wife Bridget and relegate their relationship to the past. So when her current partner comes to him for help, he is understandably hesitant to help.
But Gordon has always been a stand-up guy and done right by Zachary, so he reluctantly lets himself be talked once more into helping Bridget and Gordon. Zachary struggles with obsessions and self-doubt at the best of times, and this is a case that could break him.
His investigations lead him from one dark revelation to another until Zachary has no idea how he’s going to find his way back into the light.
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She Wore Mourning
A dead child.
A mother deep in mourning.
Private Investigator Zachary Goldman’s life isn’t all roses, but he tries to put his own shattered life behind him to investigate the death of five-year-old Declan Bond.
Declan’s death has been ruled an accident, but his grandmother thinks there is more to it. She fears Declan’s mother will not be able to find peace until Zachary can give them an answer once and for all. But as Zachary digs into the circumstances surrounding Declan’s death, he finds that all is not as it seems, and somebody doesn’t want him to find the truth.
As Christmas Eve, the deadline for solving the case looms closer, both Isabella and Zachary fall deeper into the darkness. they’ll have to survive Christmas Eve to find it.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Psychologically complex and gripping … Zachary must deal with his own psychological issues as well as those of the child’s parents along with attempts on his life. I’m binge reading this series.
Zachary Goldman, Private Investigator, is flawed with a capital F. Shattered by the tragedies of his own life, he will somehow still manage to pick himself up and dig just a little bit deeper than anyone else to find the vital clues.
Maybe being broken makes it easier for others who have faced tragedy to trust him. Walk with Zachary as he solves cases that will stretch his abilities to the limit.
Even with his own life in shambles, Zachary Goldman is still the one you want on the case.
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Pursued by the Past
Vanna had a good life. She had her challenges—like her mother’s high expectations of her—but all in all, she had a job she enjoyed, a fun hobby and friends. She didn’t need any complications.
But that all changed shortly after trying to break things off with Tino. The phone calls with no one on the other end. Anonymous gifts. Someone moving things around in her bedroom.
A restraining order changed nothing. If anything, it caused things to escalate. If Vanna wants her life back, she will have to take things into her own hands.
Keeps you wondering what comes next. I don’t know how this woman kept it together. Very good book and the characters were great. Looking forward to reading another book by this author.
—Gail, Goodreads Reader
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The Woman in the Woods
Seb is an asshole. Katie is an angel.
When Seb’s night-time activity stretches their relationship to its limits, they couple decide to take a last-chance holiday to see if there’s anything left to be fixed.
The cabin looked idyllic, but behind the soft furnishings and fluffy throws there’s a creeping sense of unease.
They thought they were fighting for their relationship – will they end up fighting for their lives?
Double Trouble
Pop quiz:
You’re stuck at the Phoenix airport in a deadly dust storm.
What do you do?
1. Accidentally kidnap two little girls
2. Kidnap a police officer
3. Trigger a bomb threat crisis of SWAT-helicopters-lockdown proportions
4. Get a serial torturer on your trail
5. All of above
Yeah, a normal person would never do any of that.
G.E.E.K.S. Inc. can hardly be considered normal.
Read Double Trouble, the first book in the G.E.E.K.S. Inc. Crime Thriller Series, where five vigilantes in pursuit of revenge also take some rather odd side jobs.
Another Man’s Treasure
On a snowy Christmas Eve, a beautiful young mother goes out to buy a few last minute gifts…and never returns.
Thirty years later, her daughter picks up her trail.
What really happened to Audrey Nealon’s mother? Did she die in a tragic accident? Or did she abandon her husband and young daughter? And why is Audrey’s father so cold and distant?
As the successful owner of an estate sale business, Audrey has put the past behind her. Her mother is a distant memory, her father a problem she keeps closed away.
Until the day Audrey clears out the home of a lonely old widow and finds some shocks.
Street drugs in the silverware drawer, a trunkful of jewels in the attic, and the distinctive ring Audrey’s mother was wearing the night her car supposedly sank to the bottom of a New Jersey lake.
Relentlessly, Audrey pursues clues to her family’s troubled history. Because the truth will set her free…unless it gets her killed.
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Coexistence
How do you get your multiple personalities to stop killing people?
Kimmy is trying to return to who she was at thirteen years old; who she was before she was kidnapped and traumatized by one of her mother’s many boyfriends.
But Kimmy doesn’t realize that her personalities, like Matryoshka dolls, were nested inside her years before the kidnapping.
In her teens, Kimmy was seeing a therapist before the therapist broke her confidence and exposed Kimmy’s life story in a book. One of the dolls inside her, Patty-Cake, dealt with that betrayal quite efficiently.
At age thirty-one, Kimberley Jean Tanner, with Patty-Cake’s help, walked into a Nursing Home and started shooting. Her first shot killed her Father and the Father of the child taken from her sixteen years ago. But then, it wasn’t Patty-Cake’s first murder.
Klondike Mysteries
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Just a Stranger – (available via newsletter sign-up)
A lazy afternoon of fishing…
An encounter with a stranger…
Three high school friends venture out for some relaxation, but the visit from a stranger will change their lives forever.
Not a Whisper –
When a retreat becomes a nightmare…
Cheri Marshall never expects her move to Pennsylvania will bring her more than a refuge as she flees a cheating fiancee back in Arizona. Helping her elderly aunt becomes mixed with arson, death, kidnapping mixed with a little romance.
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Meet Pippa Parker—
Mum, amateur sleuth, and resident of a quaint English village called Much Gadding…
The First Time I Died
The first time I died, I didn’t come back alone.
When Garnet McGee returns to her small Vermont hometown for the holidays, she vows to solve the mystery of the murder which shattered her life ten years ago.
Then she dies.
After she’s resuscitated, she starts hearing voices, seeing visions and experiencing strange sensations. Are these merely symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder and an over-active imagination, or is she getting messages from a paranormal presence?
Garnet has always prided herself on being logical and rational, but trying to catch a killer without embracing her shadow self is getting increasingly difficult. And dangerous, because in a town full of secrets, it seems like everybody has a motive for murder.
