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Freddie and Kathy Mystery #2
Bring Into Bondage
It's back to the Roaring Twenties with Kathy Briscow and her socialite author boyfriend Freddie Little. Freddie arrives for what he hopes will be a very special date with Kathy only to find her in a tizzy and packing. There's been trouble brewing on the family farm in Hays, Kansas, and now Ma Briscow has summoned Kathy home because her father is deathly ill. It's about the only thing that could get Kathy in Freddie's plane. The two fly to Kansas and are greeted by a shotgun blast.
It's all sorted out very quickly, and Pa is still very sick but has survived the worst. Vandals, however, have been attacking the farm repeatedly. Kathy and Freddie decide to stay and find out what's going on before someone gets hurt even worse than when Pa got dunked in the creek.
Not that Kathy's family doesn't have their own secrets. Her brother Joshua has returned home with a new bride that he forgot to tell his family about. And Kathy's youngest brother, Gamaliel, has an even darker secret. In town, there's nastiness afoot, as Freddie meets a frightened young boy with tell-tale bruises, and then the boy turns up dead on the Briscow farm.
Kathy and Freddie get caught spooning behind the barn, and Pa Briscow gets his shotgun out. Even the threat of being goosed down the aisle isn't half the trouble Freddie and Kathy face, when there's another body found and Freddie gets arrested for murder.
It's all sorted out very quickly, and Pa is still very sick but has survived the worst. Vandals, however, have been attacking the farm repeatedly. Kathy and Freddie decide to stay and find out what's going on before someone gets hurt even worse than when Pa got dunked in the creek.
Not that Kathy's family doesn't have their own secrets. Her brother Joshua has returned home with a new bride that he forgot to tell his family about. And Kathy's youngest brother, Gamaliel, has an even darker secret. In town, there's nastiness afoot, as Freddie meets a frightened young boy with tell-tale bruises, and then the boy turns up dead on the Briscow farm.
Kathy and Freddie get caught spooning behind the barn, and Pa Briscow gets his shotgun out. Even the threat of being goosed down the aisle isn't half the trouble Freddie and Kathy face, when there's another body found and Freddie gets arrested for murder.
237 pages, Kindle Edition
Published July 31, 2016
About the author
Anne Louise Bannon
28 books47 followersHi! I’m Anne Louise Bannon. I wrote my first short story at age 9 and my first novel at age 15. Since then, I've written a couple other books and have worked as a journalist. I've written about a lot of different things, from winemaking to city hall meetings to fantasy and my work has appeared in newspapers across the country and numerous websites.
Mostly though, I write mysteries, with some fantasy and romance tossed in. I've got several books out with more coming.
As for the rest, I live in Southern California with my husband, dog and cat. I have a grown daughter living in Northern California, who still talks to me voluntarily. And when I’m not working, I enjoy cooking, sewing, reading, hiking and a good football game.
Mostly though, I write mysteries, with some fantasy and romance tossed in. I've got several books out with more coming.
As for the rest, I live in Southern California with my husband, dog and cat. I have a grown daughter living in Northern California, who still talks to me voluntarily. And when I’m not working, I enjoy cooking, sewing, reading, hiking and a good football game.
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October 6, 2016
Another cozy period mystery from Anne Louise Bannon, “Bring Into Bondage” is the sequel to “Fascinating Rhythm”, and it did not disappoint me. Like the first book, it’s set in the 1920’s, and it follows the continuing story of my favorite writer/editor pair, Freddie Little and Kathy Briscow. The new story takes them out of New York City to the small Midwestern town of Hays, Kansas. This is a welcome twist, and Bannon’s depiction of rural small town life is every bit as convincing and entertaining as the views of big city life we saw in “Fascinating Rhythm”.
I was pleased to see a couple of my favorite characters from the first book reappear in this one, and we also meet an enticing array of new characters, some charming, some not so much. Some are members of Kathy’s family, others are local inhabitants of Hays. Briscow family dynamics provide for delightful fun and games, centered on the issue referred to in the title (a Biblical reference to matrimony). The actual mystery revolves around the problem of who is vandalizing the Briscow family farm – and why. For a while it almost looks as if this isn’t going to be a murder mystery – which would be quite all right with me, since the events are far from boring – but the bodies do eventually fall as the plot thickens. All-in-all, it’s a nice little cozy read with some zingers at the end.
I was pleased to see a couple of my favorite characters from the first book reappear in this one, and we also meet an enticing array of new characters, some charming, some not so much. Some are members of Kathy’s family, others are local inhabitants of Hays. Briscow family dynamics provide for delightful fun and games, centered on the issue referred to in the title (a Biblical reference to matrimony). The actual mystery revolves around the problem of who is vandalizing the Briscow family farm – and why. For a while it almost looks as if this isn’t going to be a murder mystery – which would be quite all right with me, since the events are far from boring – but the bodies do eventually fall as the plot thickens. All-in-all, it’s a nice little cozy read with some zingers at the end.
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