Murder Mystery

[close] In this much-anticipated sequel to the award-winning "Matinicus" (Best Mystery, 2013 Indie Book Awards; Bronze Award, Northeast Regional Fiction, 2013 IPPY Awards), five longtime friends—briefly freed from their complex lives for an annual, all-female retreat on Adria Jackman’s remote, 200-acre enclave of Mistake Island, Maine—are forced to put the partying on hold to host the hard-drinking, bachelor botanist, Gil Hodges, stranded there for what could be days.

A hopeless womanizer, Gil is secretly pleased at the layover, but soon finds Mistake’s deeply forested interior deceptively bucolic and the women a bit too intriguing for comfort, stirring both glorious memory and profound regret. When a diabolical stranger appears out of nowhere, insinuating himself into the fold to exact a twisted kind of revenge, it falls to Gil to keep the women safe, despite a dawning awareness that not everyone will make it off the island alive.

“The best male protagonist to come along since Lee Child’s Jack Reacher!” — Cruising World Magazine [close]

[close] Peyton knows the first suspect is always the husband, but Jake Ryder isn’t acting like a typical suspect. Jake truly loved his wife. So what went wrong?

Stepping into the circle of the social elite, Peyton finds that things work differently when you’re at the top. And Jake Ryder seems to be caught in the epicenter.

Ultimately, Peyton finds that you never know what darkness lurks in the human mind and that some will murder to keep that darkness hidden. [close]

[close] Jake Rand is an attorney in Casper, Wyoming, specializing in juvenile justice cases. His wife Emma is a therapist in private practice. Their peaceful life together in the shadow of Casper Mountain is shattered when they discover the body of an unknown woman apparantly frozen to death almost on their doorstep. Concerned that police might think they had something to do with the woman's death, Jake and Emma set out to unravel the mystery of who she is and how she met her lonely fate.
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