Did you have a great International Women’s Day last week? If you didn’t get your fill of books, be sure to pop over to my blog post to pick up a few more books featuring women from other cultures and countries.
And don’t forget about my upcoming release this weekend! Cold as Ice Cream, book #13 in the Auntie Clem’s Bakery series will be out this Friday, and I will have a sampling of other new releases in my blog post as well. Check out my social media channels for a video of me doing a reading from Cold as Ice Cream. Cold as Ice Cream and my other books can be read as standalone mysteries.
Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme. Read the rules and more teasers at The Purple Booker. Anyone can play along.
I was afraid when I looked at my recent blog posts that I was featuring a James Patterson book two weeks in a row. Close, but not quite! I featured James Patterson’s Lost two weeks ago, and this week, it is Hush, book number four in the Harriet Blue series. I haven’t previously read any of the books in this series, I don’t think, so you can definitely read it as a standalone and understand all of what is going on. Hush is set in Australia, with an Australian narrator for the audiobook. Harriet Blue is a tough female cop who doesn’t just cross the line in her investigations, she bulldozes right through any policy or law that stands in her way.
In the opening of the book she is, in fact, in prison for her actions in the previous book in the series. I won’t give too much away because I don’t want to spoil your enjoyment.
Lots of action, good characters who have obviously developed over the last few books and have a deep history with each other. Harriet Blue is innovative, working on not only the disappearance of the Police Commissioner’s daughter and granddaughter, but also the murder of a doctor at the prison.
I was brought to the door of the interview room, but when I saw who was inside I turned and tried to walk away.
“Nope!”
James Patterson, Hush
Top cop, devoted sister, and now Inmate 3329: even prison bars won’t stop Harriet Blue from seeking justice for the murder of her brother.
Prison is a dangerous place for a former cop — as Harriet Blue is learning on a daily basis.
So, following a fight for her life and a prison-wide lockdown, the last person she wants to see is Deputy Police Commissioner Joe Woods. The man who put her inside.
But Woods is not there to gloat. His daughter Tonya and her two-year-old child have gone missing.
He’s ready to offer Harriet a deal: find his family to buy her freedom . . .
