MYSTERY AUTHOR ELIZABETH LOGAN (AKA CAMILLE MINICHINO) WHIPS UP BOSTON CREAM PIE AND A NEW ALASKA DINER MYSTERY

Camille Minichino aka Ada Madison aka Margaret Grace aka Jean Flowers aka Elizabeth Logan is the author of twenty-eight mystery novels in five series, plus many short stories and articles. Learn more about her, her various pseudonyms, her books and check out her blogs at her website. 

The Bear Claw Diner sits on a road that’s as busy as it ever gets in Alaska, on the highway between Anchorage and Denali National Park. While its owner, Charlie Cooke is often busy investigating homicides, Victor, her young Chef, takes advantage of the occasions by changing up the menu.

 

In “Murphy’s Slaw,” the third book in the Alaskan Diner Mysteries by Elizabeth Logan (me again), Victor has taken an interest in regional foods outside of Alaska. He’s come up with offerings such as Philadelphia cheese steak, Denver omelet, Maryland crab cakes, and various Florida pies with key limes. Charlie and the rest of the Bear Claw staff were resisting spam, apparently still a hit in Hawaii. Victor defended the dish by noting that he’d found a recipe for a spam and rice combo wrapped in seaweed.

 

Coincidentally, Victor landed on one of my favorites: Boston Cream Pie, the official Massachusetts State Dessert. The not-quite-a-pie but more-than-a-cake treat originated at a famous Boston hotel nearly two hundred years ago. A native of Boston, I like to spout trivia about it now and then. I often put words in Victor’s mouth, like the fact that the world’s largest BCP was displayed at Faneuil Hall Marketplace in 2005: 16 feet in diameter, including 1,300 pounds of cake, 800 pounds of filling, and 500 pounds of chocolate frosting. 

 

That could keep me happy for approximately the rest of my life.

 

“It weighed more than a ton,” Victor tells us, doing the math. 

 

Here’s the recipe for a more normal size BCP. This is a three-part dessert, but well worth the time and effort. 

 

Boston Cream Pie

 

Ingredients:

 

Cake Layers

2 eggs

2 cup cake flour

1 cup sugar

2-1/2 tsp baking powder

1/2 tsp salt

1/3 cup vegetable oil

1 cup milk

2 tsp vanilla extract

 

Cream Filling

1-1/2 cup milk

2 tsp cornstarch

1/4 cup sugar

Pinch of salt

1 egg

1 T vanilla extract

 

Chocolate Frosting

1/4cup water

2 T sugar

1/2 cup semisweet chocolate chips

 

Cake Layers Directions

 Heat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease and flour two 9" round cake pans or line bottoms with waxed paper.

 

For the cake layers: Separate eggs; place whites in a small bowl and set aside. In a large mixing bowl, combine cake flour, 3/4 cup of the sugar, baking powder and salt. Set aside.

 

In a small bowl with an electric mixer, beat egg whites until soft peaks form. Very gradually beat in the remaining 1/4 cup sugar; beat until stiff peaks form. Set aside.

Add egg yolks, oil and 1/2 cup milk to flour mixture. With electric mixer, beat until smooth, scraping sides of bowl occasionally. Add remaining 1/2 cup milk and vanilla. Beat just until combined. Fold beaten egg whites into batter. Divide batter into prepared pans.

 

Bake cake 20 to 25 minutes or until centers spring back when gently pressed. Cool in pans on wire rack for 5 minutes. Loosen cakes around edges and turn out onto racks. Cool completely. 

 

Cream Filling Directions

In a 1-quart saucepan, heat 1 cup milk to boiling. In cup or small bowl, combine remaining 1/2 cup milk, cornstarch, sugar, pinch of salt, egg and vanilla until blended.

When milk comes to boiling, gradually stir in cornstarch mixture with wire whisk. Return to boiling, stirring constantly. Reduce heat and simmer 1 minute or until thickened to pudding consistency. Set aside to cool to room temperature.

 

Chocolate Frosting Directions

In 1-quart saucepan, heat water and sugar to boiling. 

Add chocolate chips. Stir until glaze is smooth. 

Remove from heat. Cool 5 to 10 minutes or until slightly thickened.

 

Assemble

To assemble, place one cake layer, upside down, on a serving plate. 

Spread with cream filling. 

Top with remaining cake layer, right side up. 

Spoon glaze over top; spread to edges of cake. 

Refrigerate until frosting appears set.

This recipe serves 8, generously. Enjoy!

 

Murphy’s Slaw

An Alaska Diner Mystery, Book 3

 

Charlie Cooke loves many things, like the Bear Claw Diner, the heated steering wheel of her car, and her orange tabby cat Eggs Benedict. Something she has never loved is the state fair. So when her best friend Annie Jensen begs her for a fair day, she’s reluctant.  But Annie isn’t the only one who wants her to spend a day among farm animals and deep fried food. A vendor has been murdered, and Trooper Graham needs his favorite part-time sleuth to dig up the truth, and Charlie is happy to oblige. 

 

The case grows personal when Charlie learns the victim is Kelly Carson, whom she and Annie were friends in high school. If Charlie wants to find justice for Kelly, she and Annie will have to work together to weed out the killer.

 

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BOOKCLUB FRIDAY--AN INTERVIEW WITH AUTHOR JUSTIN MURPHY

Today we sit down for a chat with author Justin Murphy who writes Southern crime fiction, true crime, and biographies of often forgotten figures in the entertainment industry. Learn more about Justin and his books from his Facebook page. 

When did you realize you wanted to write novels? 

I was always a bit creative, and people told me I had an imagination. But on my fifteenth birthday, the feeling hit me like an ocean wave. It’s the moment I realized this was what I wanted to do. Within a couple months, I began writing short stories in a more serious pursuit. More or less haven’t looked back since.

 

How long did it take you to realize your dream of publication?

About four years from that moment. My first book, Dothan, released by the now defunct Epstein Publishing on December 10, 2004.

 

Are you traditionally published, indie published, or a hybrid author?

Indie to some extent. My first few books were published through Epstein Publishing and Aspen Mountain Press. But most of my books now are \self-published.

 

Where do you write?

For many years, I wrote on my PC in the family room at my home. Now I write on a laptop at the state and national parks we travel to.

 

Is silence golden, or do you need music to write by? What kind?

Fairly quiet, but I have no problem writing with the TV on or listening to my brother’s chatter (he’s autistic) as long as things aren’t too loud. I like classic rock and R&B/Soul/Motown, but I usually don’t associate them with writing.

 

How much of your plots and characters are drawn from real life? From your life in particular?

Early on, there were characters based on people I knew or stories featuring places I lived. That tapered off for several years. In the last few years, I’ve delved into more material about disability. Writing manuscripts focusing on my ordeals with Cerebral Palsy and my brother’s autism. I’ve even worked the latter into a supernatural horror story.

 

I’ve since combined aspects of these with a short story I wrote for a contes and revised as a series of detective stories. I’ve also revised a heist caper tied to disability and wrote an aftermath story. I haven’t published any of these yet. I’m still working on them. And they’re also very personal.

 

Describe your process for naming your character?

For years, the character’s name was the last thing to come to mind when creating a story.

 

With these recent stories, I’m fascinated with certain last names for characters like ’’Collins’’, ’’Harrell’’, and ’’McClaren’’. I gave a pair of sisters female variants of boy names. I’ve named some of characters after family members and people I knew. But it comes down to the name being right for the character.

 

Real settings or fictional towns?

I have used fictional towns before to avoid any negative reactions, but mostly they’re real.

 

What’s the quirkiest quirk one of your characters has?

In some of my detective stories there’s a character based on my brother. Due to his autism, his family doesn’t understand him. He’s not the most verbal but is kind and slowly learns new things. On some level, his family also learns from him and learns to love him.

 

What’s your quirkiest quirk?

There are times where I’m not the most attentive and am easily distracted.

 

Everyone at some point wishes for a do-over. What’s yours?

I wish I’d learned some things about writing a decade or more sooner.

 

What’s your biggest pet peeve?

People and life in general…lol.

 

You’re stranded on a deserted island. What are your three must-haves?

My brother, Fleetwood Mac’s Mystery To Me, and Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury.

 

What was the worst job you’ve ever held?

I don’t know about the worst job, but I remember my worst period as a writer, so far. Around 2012-2013, I signed with a Film/TV Agent to get screenwriting work. Was assigned to write five screenplays, which I did. Nothing happened and she was gone within a year. At the same time, I popped out a series of short Kindle books in quick succession.

 

The combination of the two really burned me out and took me a few years to begin coming out of that slump.

 

What’s the best book you’ve ever read?

Part of me wants to say Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury. After years of reading entertaining stories, this book taught me to pay more attention to wording and sentence structure. Try not to use the same word twice in a paragraph. Along with how developed the characters and settings were. It inspired me to write poems.

 

Ocean or mountains?

For now, I’ve been going to a few lakes and ponds at the state parks we’ve been to. I plan to see some mountains when we get to Yellowstone. Sooner or later, maybe both?

 

City girl/guy or country girl/guy?

A question beaten to death by relatives from my native Dothan, Alabama. City people are stereotyped as being ambitious, extroverted, and more than a tad selfish. While country types are pegged as content and introverted but very dim witted. My reality is the rural contentment with some ambition.

 

What’s on the horizon for you?

There’s still some things I want to work on with heist capers and crime stories involving disability. Also, continuing with photography and visiting the state and national parks. 

 

Anything else you’d like to tell us about yourself and/or your books?

I hope to be creative for as long as possible. I’ve been writing and publishing for a long time. The road has been bumpy and will get more so as time goes on. But it’s worth it. You have to reach within yourself to see what your’re truly capable of.

 

Gene L. Coon: The Unsung Hero of Star Trek:

Gene Roddenberry has long been painted as the visionary who made Star Trek possible. Yet not much has been written on Gene L. Coon, the real workhorse behind the original series. This man built the universe around Roddenberry’s initial concept we all know today. He almost single handedly created the Klingons and had a hand in creating the franchise’s greatest villain…KHAN! Any notion of Starfleet Command, The United Federation of Planets, warp technology, and its fictional creator Zefram Cochrane all belong to him. Coon died from cancer at forty-nine, just as Star Trek got popular through reruns and conventions.

 

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AN INTERVIEW WITH AUTHOR TERRY AMBROSE'S TWEEN AMATEUR SLEUTH ALEX ATWOOD

Today we sit down for a chat with tween amateur sleuth Alexandra (Alex) Atwood from author Terry Ambrose’s Seaside Cove Bed & Breakfast Mysteries.

What was your life like before your author started pulling your strings?

My life was a total disaster before my author came along. He was like, I have this idea for a mystery series, but you and your dad have to move across the country. And I was like, seriously? All my friends are here. I’m in fifth grade and moving is gonna totally ruin my life. But after we got to Seaside Cove I realized he totally did me and my dad a huge favor ‘cause that’s how Daddy met Marquetta and I got to take on my first case.

 

What’s the one trait you like most about yourself? 

Everybody says I’m super precocious, and I think that’s an awesome trait to have.

 

What do you like least about yourself?

Seriously? I don’t know you very well, but my author says you’re really nice, so I guess it’s okay. What I like least is that some of the little things scare me—like spiders. Ewww. I hate spiders with their little spindly legs.

 

What is the strangest thing your author has had you do or had happen to you?

He totally had to be having a messed up day ‘cause he tried to kill me and Marquetta by having us drive off a cliff on a mountain road. It was super scary and I thought for sure we were gonna die, but Marquetta’s an awesome driver so we survived. Don’t tell my author, but I still haven’t forgiven him for that.

 

Do you argue with your author? If so, what do you argue about?

Lady, I’m like eleven. When I try to argue with him, he grounds me and sends me to my room! It’s so totally unfair. 

 

What is your greatest fear?

Wow, lady. You ask some super personal questions. My real mom wanted to be a big actress on Broadway more than she wanted to be my mom. That’s why my dad divorced her and moved us to Seaside Cove. So my biggest fear was that I’d grow up without a mom. 

 

What makes you happy?

Having Marquetta in my life is what makes me the happiest. She’s the B&B’s cook, but now she’s also gonna marry my dad. The first time we met was like this super cool connection. She’d talked to my dad on the phone before we moved here and painted my room teal and purple ‘cause they’re my favorite colors. She’s always watching out for me and treats me the way I always wished my real mom would.

 

If you could rewrite a part of your story, what would it be? Why?

That’s easy! I’d rewrite the first years of my life so that Marquetta would have been my mom. My dad’s so much happier with her than he ever was before he met her.

 

Of the other characters in your book, which one bugs you the most? Why?

None of the other characters has ever been mean to me before like Adela Barone. She showed up in Treasure Most Deadly and I kinda liked her, but then she started lying and I realized she wasn’t trying to be my friend at all. I totally don’t like people like that.

 

Of the other characters in your book, which one would you love to trade places with? Why?

I’d love to trade places with Mayor Carter ‘cause she’s an adult and she owns an ice cream shop! I could eat ice cream all day long and never get grounded. It would also be a lot of fun to run the town. That would be pretty awesome!

 

Tell us a little something about your author. Where can readers find his website/blog?

My author won’t tell me his age, but I kinda think he’s really old ‘cause he’s been writing for a super long time. Learn more about him and all his books at his website. 

 

What's next for you?

Right now, my author’s giving everybody in Seaside Cove a vacation while he works on the next Trouble in Paradise Mystery. I’m gonna totally enjoy my summer break and get ready for my dad and Marquetta’s wedding. 

 

Treasure Most Deadly

A Seaside Cove Bed and Breakfast Mystery, Book 5

 

Seaside Cove Bed & Breakfast owner Rick Atwood is again called on to assist his friend, Chief of Police Adam Cunningham, with a murder investigation. The case seems straightforward enough. Clive Crabbe, who has a quick temper and a strong jealous streak, was found hunched over the victim after the man made advances toward Clive’s ex-wife. 

 

A murder investigation is the last thing Rick wants right now. The B&B is booked solid. The town is inundated with tourists and news reporters chasing stories about treasure thieves. And Rick’s wedding to Marquetta Weiss is just weeks away. As if that wasn’t enough, Rick’s eleven-year-old daughter Alex is not only itching to help the cops solve another murder, but she’s forming an unhealthy friendship with a B&B guest.

 

As the murder investigation progresses, Rick realizes Alex’s new friend could be at the center of everything. The worst part is that Alex may be the one person capable of cracking the case.

 

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AN INTERVIEW WITH DR. MIRABEL CAMPBELL FROM AUTHOR CJ PETTERSON'S THRILLER, THE DAWGSTAR

Today we sit down for a chat with Dr. Mirabel Campbell from author cj petterson’s thriller, The Dawgstar.

What was your life like before your author started pulling your strings?

Oh my. I was a lab rat, a scientist working on a world-wide genome project and living a quiet life in a small town. If you think it sounds boring, I’ll have to admit I was beginning to think so, too. 

 

What’s the one trait you like most about yourself?  

I like that once I make a commitment to some thing or someone, I follow through. Okay, the divorce was a different matter. I also have a very good work ethic. I know that sounds like I’m boasting, but it’s simply the truth. 

 

What do you like least about yourself?

What I like least about myself is my stubbornness and determination to make my own decisions, a trait that put other people in danger. 

 

What is the strangest thing your author has had you do or had happen to you?

She dropped me out of the sky in a plane crash, had me walking through the desert for two days, and then sat me down right on top of a rattlesnake. Egads, the woman is insane. 

 

Do you argue with your author? If so, what do you argue about?

I like to say I knew better than to argue with her. Who knows what she would’ve had me doing if I made her mad?

 

What is your greatest fear?

What is my greatest fear? You mean besides spiders and snakes? 

 

What makes you happy?

Good friends, good times, success, love. Let’s say after going through what I went through, just being alive makes me happy. 

 

If you could rewrite a part of your story, what would it be? Why?

If I could rewrite part of this story, my dear, sweet friend Dan wouldn’t die. I’d only let him get injured so I could give him all the TLC he needed and nurse him back to health. 

 

Of the other characters in your book, which one bugs you the most? Why?

The character that bugs me the most is Esther, the sheriff’s new deputy. For some reason, we didn’t hit it off from the first second we met. I tried to be friendly, but she just brushed me aside. After the sheriff was murdered, she was really imperious, barking orders and sitting in the sheriff’s chair like it was already hers.  

 

Of the other characters in your book, which one would you love to trade places

with? Why?

I think Lisa would be a good character to trade places with: Tall, model-thin, milk-chocolate eyes, a mane of blond hair, and girlfriend of the most eligible bachelor in town.

 

Tell us a little something about your author. 

cj petterson is the pen name of Marilyn A. Johnston. A Texan raised in Michigan, Marilyn now lives in the hellacious heat and humidity of Alabama’s Gulf Coast. 

 

She writes contemporary suspense/thrillers and mysteries with a touch of romance. I like that her strong protagonists and supporting characters take readers on a fast journey through stories filled with suspense and action. I especially like the sassy dialogue she put in my mouth. Several anthologies have published her nonfiction and fiction short stories, including a paranormal or two. 

 

Marilyn/cj is a member of the international organization Sisters in Crime and their online Guppy chapter, the Alabama Writers Conclave, the Alabama Writers Forum, and a charter member of the Mobile Writers Guild.

 

Where can readers find her website/blog? 

You can follow Marilyn/cj at www.lyricalpens.com

 

What's next for you?

That’s a million-dollar question. The one thing I’m absolutely sure of is that I won’t be spending the rest of my days hiding away in a laboratory. Been there, done that. I’ve got an opportunity to work with a private investigator in Sacramento. You know, doing things like follow cheating husbands and wives. But after my adventure in The Dawgstar got the sheriff murdered, I’ve been thinking I could make up for that by taking up where he left off and run for the job of sheriff. Imagine me, a lab rat being elected sheriff. My ex-husband thinks I’d look pretty sexy with a gun on my hip and a badge on my boob. I haven’t made up my mind yet. What do you think I should do? 

 

The Dawgstar

Mirabel Campbell is a brilliant but bored scientist and amateur astronomer who wants to trade her microscope and telescope for a career with more excitement. She abruptly gets her wish when she spots what she thinks might be a new comet in the night sky. What she doesn't know could kill her because the flash of light is really a top-secret nanosatellite, and its discovery combined with her scientific specialty makes her the target of a mysterious psychopath who sends an assassin to silence her. Instead, friends begin to die around her. As if that wasn't enough, Sully, her CIA ex-husband gets involved, and she has to deal with some long-buried emotions. Mirabel must learn how to stay alive in a covert world of political intrigue where the unexpected is the norm, and she's not the kind of woman who'll wait for her ex-husband or anyone else to make her decisions. She made a promise to find out what's so special about that tiny point of light in the sky, and she intends to keep that promise. 

The Dawgstar is a suspense/thriller filled with international political gangsterism, nanosatellites (real things), assassins, fears of frankenfood, and more!  A Jane Bond-ish read with a touch of romance.

 

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BOOK CLUB FRIDAY--AN INTERVIEW WITH MULTI-MYSTERY AUTHOR JEFFREY JAMES HIGGINS

Today we sit down for a chat with author Jeffrey James Higgins who writes in multiple mystery genres, including thriller, action-adventure, suspense, medical, and military. Learn more about him and his books at his website. 

When did you realize you wanted to write novels?

I wrote stories when I was six years old—silly stories about taking animals on adventures—and I drew my cover art with crayons. I would sneak out of bed at night and write stories in a notebook. I have always identified as an author, and I can’t remember a time when I didn’t plan to write books.

 

How long did it take you to realize your dream of publication?

I retired as a supervisory special agent in 2017 and started writing full time. Since then, I’ve written one nonfiction manuscript and six novels. Black Rose Writing will launch my debut on May 20 and my second novel on August 26. The other five manuscripts are in the editing or submission process. I have also published six creative nonfiction pieces, two short stories, fourteen essays, and one poem. It has taken me just over four years for my debut to hit the market, but my dream has been fifty years in the making.

 

Are you traditionally published, indie published, or a hybrid author?

I’m traditionally published, but I recently self-published a short story, The Interrogation, on Kindle Direct Publishing, and I plan to be a hybrid author. Traditional publishing offers many advantages, but self-publishing gives me more control.

 

Where do you write?

I have an elegant home office. My wife, Cynthia Farahat Higgins, is also a writer, and she allows me to use our office while she toils away in the dining room. We work within a few feet of each other, separated by French doors. She may enjoy keeping an eye on me.

 

Is silence golden, or do you need music to write by? What kind?

I write with the window open so I can hear city sounds and with classical music playing on my computer. I can’t listen to songs with lyrics. My favorite writing music is Vivaldi’s “Four Seasons”. It puts me in the zone. 

 

How much of your plots and characters are drawn from real life? From your life in particular?

My wife is the strongest person I know. She formed an opposition political party in Egypt, and she has fought radical Islam around the world. Dagny Steele, my protagonist in Furious, was inspired by my wife’s courage. 

 

What’s your quirkiest quirk?

I’m a little OCD. My wife often calls me Mr. Monk.

 

If you could have written any book (one that someone else has already written,) which one would it be? Why?

It’s hard to argue with the success of the Harry Potter series or Michael Connelly’s Harry Bosch character, but I get the most satisfaction from telling my own stories.

 

City girl/guy or country girl/guy?

I’m a city guy. I grew up in a small New England town with more apple trees than people. We were only thirty miles west of Boston, but it was an effort to get there, especially as a child. I completed my undergrad at Boston University and have lived in cities ever since. The people and constant activity inspire me, and the convenience of walking to restaurants and bars is hard to give up.

 

What’s on the horizon for you?

Furious: Sailing into Terror launches on May 20, and Unseen: Evil Lurks Among Us, comes out on August 26. I’m marketing those and editing my next novel. There’s always a new book on the horizon!

 

Furious: Sailing into Terror

Trapped on a storm-damaged yacht, a grieving woman must conquer her worst fears and fight for her life, in a story described as The Shining on a yacht. Dr. Dagny Steele is on the verge of fulfilling her lifelong calling to become a pediatric surgeon when the sudden death of her daughter sends her into a crushing depression. Grief stricken and desperate to heal, she takes a leave of absence and sails across the Indian Ocean with her husband. Dagny begins to recover from her tragic loss when her voyage turns into a nightmare. Isolated and hunted at sea—can she survive a deadly crucible?

 

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INTERVIEW WITH DETECTIVE KATIE SCOTT FROM AUTHOR JENNIFER CHASE'S THRILLER SERIES

Today we sit down for a chat with Detective Katie Scott from author Jennifer Chase’s Detective Katie Scott Thriller Series.

What was your life like before your author started pulling your strings?

I had a simple and quiet life where not much of anything ever happened. I liked my life, but my author sure knows how to turn up the thrills.

 

What’s the one trait you like most about yourself?

Even though I suffer from PTSD, I have the courage and perseverance to push ahead out of my comfort zone to catch killers.

 

What do you like least about yourself?

I carry a lot of baggage. I keep to myself about many things and I would like to be able to talk to my closest friends more.

 

What is the strangest thing your author has had you do or had happen to you?

Well, there have been a few things. But the one that stands out was when the bad guy locked me and my partner in a cargo container. I don't have to tell you how scary that was.

 

Do you argue with your author? If so, what do you argue about?

No, we rarely argue. Sometimes I question whether or not I should do something, but other than that we're fine.

 

What is your greatest fear?

No being able to save a victim and not being able to work another cold case.

 

What makes you happy?

It's having my good friends and my uncle to be there for me if I need it. And my military K9 Cisco always makes me happy, especially after a bad day.

 

If you could rewrite a part of your story, what would it be? Why?

Hmm. That's a tough one. I would have to say that my parents weren't killed in a car accident when I was a teenager. I would love to have more time with my parents especially after being in the Army and joining the police department.

 

Of the other characters in your book, which one bugs you the most? Why?

Most of the co-characters are pretty cool. It's the bad guys and serial killers that really bug me—to the point of anger. I get tunnel vision and I will eventually catch them.

 

Of the other characters in your book, which one would you love to trade places with? Why?

It would be fun to trade places with Denise, my friend and co-worker; she's such a kind and wonderful person. She works as the supervisor in the records division at the sheriff's department. I love spending time with her because her temperament is opposite of mine.

 

Tell us a little something about your author. Where can readers find her website/blog?

I respect my author. She always plans such exciting cases for me, but I remind her frequently that she needs to take some time off to relax. You can find her at her website.

 

What's next for you?

I'm not sure, but there are more cases for me to solve. My author keeps things quiet until I have to jump into action. There is another book in the series coming up soon.

The Fragile Ones

A Detective Katie Scott Thriller, Book 5

 

When the bodies of eleven and twelve-year-old sisters, Tessa and Megan, are found at the bottom of a ravine—dressed in matching pastel summer outfits, their small bodies broken from the fall—Detective Katie Scott is called to one of the most shocking and heartbreaking crime scenes of her career.

 

Carefully picking through the fragile remains, Katie makes the first of many disturbing discoveries: the girls were not biological sisters. The youngest, Megan, is a DNA match to a kidnapping case years before. The tiny number burnt into her skin the mark of a terrifying killer intent on keeping count of his collection.

 

Her PTSD from the army triggered, Katie is left reeling as she maps other missing children in the local area.Has this twisted soul found a way to stay nearby his victims? Could he be watching now as Katie hits one dead end after another? 

 

A wild storm building, matching a fiber found during the autopsy to a nearby boatyard is the break Katie needs. But when another girl goes missing, just as lightning strikes and the power goes out, Katie only has her instincts, her team and her service dog to rely on. As time runs out for Katie to finds the stolen child alive, who will become the next number on this monster’s deadly list?

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