COMING SEPTEMBER 16
With UNFIXABLE: A Buck Lawson Mystery, I launch my first new series in 6 years. I couldn't be more excited!
In this spin-off from the popular Raine Stockton Dog Mystery
Series, Former Hanover County Sheriff Buck Lawson leaves the mountains of
North Carolina to take a job as the police chief of the small south Georgia
town of Mercy, and soon finds himself in over his head. For one thing,
his predecessor has been murdered…
Leaving behind two failed marriages and a job
that almost cost him his life, Buck is seeking a fresh start for himself and
his new family. But Mercy is a town with a past as dark as the Blood
River that runs through it, and the crime that resulted in the death of the
beloved former chief of police may have its roots in an evil that goes back
generations.
Buck has inherited an unsolved homicide, a
house that may well be haunted and a police department that is almost certainly
corrupt. It falls to Buck to free an innocent man and bring
the former police chief’s killer to justice while he wades through the quagmire
of incompetence and dishonesty that permeates his office. His efforts are
both hampered and assisted by a benevolent despot of a mayor who runs the town
like her own fiefdom and is known to bend the law to suit her convenience.
His only true ally, Buck comes to
understand, is the dead man himself.
When a young college student goes
missing, Buck has reason to suspect foul play that may involve one of his
police officers. He must rely on his gut to point him to those he can
trust. But as the evidence leads him closer to an unthinkable truth, he
realizes he is retracing the footsteps of the former police chief. Will
the path lead him, as it did his predecessor, to his grave?
You can read the first chapter for
free hereIf you'd like to read an interview about how the series came to be, go
here.
And enjoy the first installment in the Blood River Series September 16!