Time of Death (A Stillwater General Mystery #1) by Lucy Kerr

It’s been twelve years since ER nurse Frankie Stapleton fled the quiet banks of Stillwater, but with her sister’s pregnancy taking a dangerous turn and a string of failed relationships in Chicago hanging over her, Frankie is back–and hoping to put the past behind her. Within minutes of arriving at Stillwater General Hospital however, she ends up saving a man’s life, only to have him turn up dead hours later – and the hospital blames Frankie.
Her instincts say Clem Jensen didn’t die of natural causes, but the more she digs, the more she discovers too many suspects, a few surprising allies, and some hard truths about the first man she ever loved–and left. Now the boy she once knew is a skeptical sheriff’s deputy, her family's hardware store is in jeopardy, and the rift between Frankie and her loved ones is deeper than ever.
With her career–and future–on life support, Frankie must catch a killer, clear her name, and heal the wounds of the past in Lucy Kerr’s enthralling mystery debut, Time of Death.

Review: Thank you NetGalley for the copy of Time of Death by Lucy Kerr that I was able to read and review.

This was the first book in a new series that I found pretty good and interesting and if the rest of the books are as good as this book this series will be a good series to read.
Frankie is a nurse who goes home after being away for a long time to help her sister who is having a difficult pregnancy. While she is walking into the hospital to go see her sister she finds a man sitting on a bench who is having a heart attack and she uses her training as a nurse to save the man's life but for some reason he dies the next day and the hospital wants to slap her with a malpractice suit because she did not work at that hospital even though she saved the man's life. Frankie feels something is not right with the gentleman's death and now she must prove she did nothing wrong.
If you are looking for a book with medical drama this the book for you. I was impressed with the author and how she explained what was going so well medically. It was kind of neat to hear things from that stand point. They mystery was also well written. I was not sure who the killer was or what was going to happen with Frankie. I am interested to see what she will do in the next book because she is such an interesting character.
Time of Death gets four out of five stars.

 

Wrath (Faith McMann Trilogy, #3) by T.R. Ragan

In another life, before human traffickers murdered her husband and stole her children, Faith McMann was a wife, mother, and teacher. Now she has become Furious, a merciless avenger on a deadly mission to retrieve her young son and daughter, no matter the cost.Aided by unlikely but steadfast allies, the giant Beast and fragile Rage, Faith plunges ever deeper into a sickening underworld of sexual exploitation and slavery with steel-forged determination and righteous anger.
In this powerful, suspenseful conclusion to the Faith McMann trilogy, Faith is haunted by questions: Even if her children are recovered, will they be broken beyond repair? What terrible sacrifices will their rescue require? What are the limits of loyalty and love in a world that preys on innocents? And after her brutal awakening to the darkest aspects of human nature, what will remain of her own self?

Review: Thank you NetGalley for the ARC of Wrath by T.R. Ragan that I read and reviewed.
What can I say? T.R. Ragan did it again. This trilogy was a hit from the start and Wrath, the final book, was a exciting climax to a must read trilogy.
I don't want to give anything away but I loved how Ragan ended this trilogy. I must admit I had the tissues out and the tears were flowing when I finished this book and that was not what I am use to when I read these kind of books but I will admit I loved this book and this series and I would not change anything about it.
This series focuses around Faith McMann whose children are taken by human traffickers whole stole her son and daughter and murdered her husband. With the help of her friends Beast and Rage who she met in anger management class she decided to take it upon herself to take on the traffickers and bring her children home. In this third book, with Rage dying of brain cancer and her son Hudson home she is running out of time to bring home her daughter. This book focuses on the final confrontation between Faith and the men who killed her husband and took her children. Will she get her daughter back and if she does at what cost because these men are not going to go down easily and they want Faith and her family dead because she is trying to take down a billion dollar business that a lot powerful men are involved in.
Wrath is a book that has is all: Murder, suspense, powerful people doing bad things, love, redemption and just about anything else you can think of. This book took me on a roller coaster of emotions and I loved it. The end of this series was everything I wanted it to be and much more!
Wrath is getting five out of five stars.

Don't Tell a Soul by M. William Phelps

Cherry Walker was a devoted, trusting, uncommonly innocent young woman who loved caring for a neighbor's little boy. But when she was asked to testify in court against his abusive mother, Cherry never got the chance. She couldn't lie if her life depended on it--and it did. Cherry's body was found on the side of a Texas road, after being doused with lighter fluid and set aflame.
Attractive, manipulative, and violent, mother of four Kim Cargill had a wealth of dirty secrets she'd do anything to keep hidden. This in-depth account by bestselling investigative journalist M. William Phelps takes you inside Cargill's shocking trial--and into the mind of one of the most conniving female psychopaths in recent history--and on death row. 

Review: Thank you NetGalley for the ARC if Don't Telk a Soul by M. William Phelps that I read and reviewed.
Okay this is the first true crime book that I have ever read but I as an addicted to the ID television station so I figured I would give it a shot and I am glad I did. At first I can honestly say I had no idea way the author picked to write about Kim Cargill, at first she seemed like one of those crazy psychos I watch on ID all the time but as I got deeper into the book I realized she was her own kind of crazy. A woman who could kill and burn the corpse of her special needs babysitter because she did not want her to testify in court is one sick woman and then the things she did cover up the crime and see how the police we investigating, it would be something I would expect my favorite suspense author to write in a fiction novel not a person to actually do. Then how she abused her children and her exes and the people in her life just made me sick. I kinda wished I could have been on the jury and given the woman the death penalty myself.
Reading this book made me realize how evil someone can really be and I love the fact the author chose to highlight a woman on deathrow. We always hear about the evil men in society and the evil women are overlooked and this book looks at one of those women who are evil to the core but can hide behind a pretty face and make people do what she wants because she is pathological liar that can hide the evil extremely well. I believe that is why the author picked Cargill for his book she was so evil and she did not care about anyone but herself, yet no one realized that about her until it was too late and they were sucked into her world and in some way hurt by her. She was a very interesting person to study. As I reader I hated her but her lies kept drawing me in just like they did her victims.
I am giving Don't Tell a Soul five out if five stars.

Abby's Journey by Steena Holmes

Twenty-year-old Abigail Turner has only known her mother, Claire—who died shortly after she was born—through letters, videos, postcards, and journals. Abby’s father, Josh, has raised his precious daughter himself, but his overprotectiveness has become stifling. Abby longs to forge out on her own and see the world after a childhood trapped indoors: she suffers from bronchopulmonary dysplasia, which means a case of the sniffles can rapidly escalate into life-threatening pneumonia.

But when Abby’s doctor declares her healthy—for now—her grandmother Millie whisks her away to Europe to visit the Christmas markets that her mother cherished and chronicled in her travel journals. Despite her father’s objections, Abby and Millie embark on a journey of discovery in which Abby will learn secrets that force her to reevaluate her image of her mother and come to a more mature understanding of a parent-child bond that transcends death.

Review: Thank you NetGalley for the ARC of Abby's Journey by Steena Holmes that I read and reviewed.

Once again Steena Homes has written a book that pulls at your heart strings and makes you feel the emotions that the family is feeling as it plays out on pages in the book.
In Abby's Journey you meet Abby, whose mother, Claire, died shortly after giving birth to her. She only knew her mom through videos, letters, postcards, journals and books and her mother and father wrote about a boy named Jack who had all kinds of adventures and travels around the world. Abby knew she wanted to travel but she was sick since she was born and her father Josh was afraid too let her go anywhere because his biggest fear was to loose his daughter like he lost her mother.
In this book Abby is given a chance to go to Germany with her Grandmother much to her father's dismay. He is worried that she will get sick even though she has had a clean bill of heath for a year.
This book it told from the viewpoint of Abby, her grandmother and Josh as they deal with letting go of the past and dealing with finding out secrets that have been kept from them. It is an emotional story of letting go and letting someone grow up and facing the past.
Be sure to have tissue at the end because it will be needed. I am giving Abby's Journey five out of five stars. 

Where the Lost Girls Go (A Laura Mori Mystery #1) by R.J. Noonan

Rookie cop Laura Mori catches her first investigation when the fiery crash of a sports car lights up the night sky. The fire burns the body beyond recognition, but the police are able to identify the car as that of Kent Jameson, celebrity author and benefactor of Sunrise Lake. And Jameson fears that the unidentified body is his seventeen-year-old daughter Lucy, who stormed out of the house that night after an argument.
When lab reports reveal that the body was not Lucy, but a teen runaway named Kyra whose disappearance has been linked with other missing persons--more than half a dozen “lost girls” who disappeared while living on the streets of Portland--the investigation takes a drastic turn. How did Kyra come to land at the Jameson estate in rural Oregon, and what was she doing driving their car? And who cut the brake lines on the vehicle?Just when Laura is making progress in the case, she comes across a suspicious lane in the forest that uncovers new evidence that will once again alter the course of the investigation and rock Sunrise Lake to its core. 

Review:  Thank you NetGalley for the ARC of Where the Lost Girls Go by R.J. Noonan that I was able to read and review.
This was an excellent book that I found very well written and full of action. Noonan's book is an interesting book with a diverse cast of characters. The main character, Laura is a rookie police officer of Japanese decent, who finds herself on a case involving the death of a girl who is believed to be the daughter of a famous author that is killed in a car crash. As the investigation moves on Laura is partnered up with disgraced officer Zion "Z" Frazier who was in trouble from lodging a complaint against the top Brass. As they get deeper into the investigation they learn the author's daughter Lucy is alive and okay but living in the woods with a bunch of runaways some of which are known as the Lost Girls.
Once Lucy gets home Laura finds out that the girl in the car is not the first of her friends that have disappeared. So Laura and Z start to suspect that Lucy has been killing her friends. Is this teenage girl a killer who gets rid of her friends when she gets sick of them or is there something more going on?
Also the police Lieutenant Charlie Omak is working his own case. His sister was a police officer for the force who died under questionable circumstance that he is investigating. With the help of the Mayor he is trying weed out the dirty cops that may have had something to do with her death. This is an ongoing investigation that was setup in this book and teased a lot but I believe it will play a large part in an oncoming book.
This book was very well written and I found it very interesting with all the different types of people in the book. I loved the fact that the lead police officers were both minorities. I think this is the first time I remember reading that in a book with them each being a different minority race. I also loved how I was not sure who the killer was until the very end. I kept second guessing and trowing my theories out. I love it when an author can do that to me and Noonan did that to me multiple times in the book so I am very impressed. I can't wait until the second Laura Mori Mystery comes out just to see what Noonan has up her sleeve next.
Where the Lost Girls Go get five out of five starts.