Linda O. Johnston's first published fiction appeared in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine and won the Robert L. Fish Memorial Award for Best First Mystery Short Story of the Year. Since then, Linda has had more short stories and novellas published, plus, by the end of 2018, she will have had fifty novels published, including mysteries and romance.
Linda currently writes the Barkery and Biscuits Mysteries cozy mystery series for Midnight Ink, and also wrote the Superstition Mysteries for them, both featuring dogs. She has also written the Pet Rescue Mystery series for Berkley Prime Crime, which was a spinoff from her Kendra Ballantyne, Pet-Sitter mystery series. And yes, they involved dogs, too.
Linda also writes for Harlequin Romantic Suspense, including a new miniseries about a K-9 ranch where dogs are trained. Linda additionally writes paranormal romance for Harlequin Nocturne including the Alpha Force miniseries about a covert military unit of shapeshifters--and all the werewolves also have cover dogs.
Linda, a currently inactive transactional attorney, now writes fiction full-time. She is a member of the Los Angeles chapters of Mystery Writers of America and Sisters in Crime. She is also a member of Romance Writers of America, including the Los Angeles, Orange County and Santa Clarita chapters.
This was a good book. I thought I had it all figured out from the beginning, but boy was I wrong! This is one of the few books I was not able to determine the outcome of the "mystery". I do wish however, that the author would have made it very clear from the beginning that the widow and her husband were estranged. It made the romance with the Chief of Police feel a bit weird thinking she was mourning her husband and pursuing a relationship at the same time.
Very good "who-done-it" suspense book. I am always great at figuring out the mystery but this one really had you questioning all the way to the end. The romance between Gabe and Holly was only a bonus to an already great book.
Different than what I thought it would be.But sometimes different is good.It held my interest from beginning to end and kept me on the edge of my seat.