It’s the worst kind of call for law enforcement to receive. It comes from one of their own, a Massachusetts state trooper who’s been involved in a shooting in her own home and her six-year old daughter is missing. Trooper Tessa Leone sits battered on her kitchen floor with her husband lying dead nearby, killed… Continue reading Love You More by Lisa Gardner
The D. D. Warren series was selected by one of my Goodreads groups to read as a series. I’ll be posting my reviews of each book every month as we work through the series. Detective Sergeant D. D. Warren is called in to the type crime scene all law enforcement agents dread...the murder of children.… Continue reading Live to Tell by Lisa Gardner
Imogen Pritchard is a nurse by day and at night she works as a maid and barkeep at the Bare Kitten Gin and Dance Hall in London to take care of her mother and sister, as well as help repay her father’s gambling debt to the owner. She has a special arrangement with him where… Continue reading The Duke by Kerrigan Byrne
The Lucy Kincaid series was selected as a group read in one of my Goodreads groups and we determined, because of character crossovers, we needed to first read her earlier series in publication order. FBI Special Agent Megan Elliott is called in to the scene of a brutal murder by the Sacramento Police Detective John… Continue reading Sudden Death by Allison Brennan
Six years ago, Alicia Berenson shot her husband, Gabe, six times in the face. She was 33-years old at the time, a successful artist and he a renowned fashion designer. She’s not said a word since, even during her trial, and now resides at a private mental facility called The Grove. Theo Faber is a… Continue reading The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
Edwina Ladoux has reached the end of the line financially in trying to keep her southern Louisiana family home in the immediate aftermath of the Civil War. Unable to pay the back taxes, Edwina made plans to marry a Colorado rancher in response to his ad for a wife. She and her half sister, Prudence… Continue reading Heartbreak Creek by Kaki Warner
Cassie Hanwell was living her best life as a firefighter in Austin, Texas. She is not only the most skilled of her gender but at the top of her field amongst her entire team. Then she attends an awards ceremony in her honor and the person who unexpectedly replaces the mayor to hand her the… Continue reading Things You Save in a Fire by Katherine Center
Philomena (Mena) St. Vincent was punished by her husband for her role in exposing his sister and brother-in-law in the last book. He had her declared insane and institutionalized in an asylum. Just as things were beginning to get even bleaker, she’s rescued by her benefactor who then helps to hide her. She’s disguised as… Continue reading The Highlander by Kerrigan Byrne
Sandra Jones, a married middle school teacher and mother of a four-year old daughter, disappears in the middle of the night while her husband, Jason, is working on an assignment. He’s a reporter and returns home to find his wife missing and his sleeping daughter alone. Sergeant D. D. Warren is asked to help with… Continue reading The Neighbor by Lisa Gardner
Jane Eyre was orphaned and left in the care of her uncle and his wife as an infant. When her uncle died, life change dramatically for Jane as her aunt resented her existence and ultimately sent her away to boarding school when she was ten years old. This is her story, how she grew to… Continue reading Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
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