CLAWS FOR CONCERN
Maddie Sparks, senior amateur sleuth, sets aside her writing when her son, a defense attorney, is accused of murdering one of his clients, a high school friend and the woman the authorities believe murdered her estranged husband. Although Maddie knows her son is innocent, she also suspects he is hiding something. Before she can confront him, he disappears during the first snowstorm of the season. When he reappears, he is shocked to discover his house has been torched. He confesses he and the murdered woman had been seeing each other. Did the client kill her husband to be with Maddie's son? To make sense of the murders and the arson, Maddie takes a close look at her son's friends from high school. Do people change over time, or do they carry their past grievances into the present? In getting to know her son's friends, she finds that teenage passion can sometimes lead to murder. It's simply a matter of Maddie determining which friend is hiding a killer's face.
Sassy Snooping!
All these amateur sleuths yearn for the simple, artless existence of hard work coupled with rustic pleasure.
That’s why they live away from big cities, but murder and violence have a way of stalking us, even our plucky heroines, who think they’ve avoided life’s perils.
The Readers’ Favorite winners seal, five star reviews for the following books in the Eve Apple Mysteries:
Mud Bog Murder
A Sporting Murder
Old Bones Never Die
Killer Tied
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The Eve Appel mysteries and the Big Lake Mystery series take place around the swamps of the rural south. The Microbrewing series, the Laura Murphy mysteries and my standalone mystery Angel Sleuth are set in the mountains and river valleys of the north. And my short stories and novellas, north and south, complete the collections.
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