Tag Archives: Policewomen
Sharon Wildwind. Soldier on the Porch. Detroit: Five Star, 2007.
For the past two years, former military policewoman Avivah Rosen has been trying to make a new life in Asheville, North Carolina and to forget about her role in a scandal in Vietnam. However, after a deadly explosion at the … Continue reading
Filed under 2000-2009, 2007, Buncombe, Madison, Mountains, Mystery, Novels in Series, Suspense/Thriller, Wildwind, Sharon
Sharon Wildwind. The Elizabeth Pepperhawk/Avivah Rosen Vietnam Veteran Mystery Series.
Some Welcome Home. Waterville, ME: Five Star, 2005. First Murder in Advent. Waterville, ME: Five Star, 2006. Soldier on the Porch. Waterville, ME: Five Star, 2007. Missing, Presumed Wed. Detroit, MI: Five Star, 2009. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan … Continue reading
Filed under 2000-2009, Mystery, Novels in Series, Series, Wildwind, Sharon
Sharon Wildwind. Missing, Presumed Wed.. Detroit: Five Star, 2009.
Weddings should be happy occasions, but in the week leading up to the union between Benny Kirkpatrick and Lorraine Fulford, Benny and Lorraine and their family and friends experience fear, anger, jealousy, regret, and shame. It starts when Benny’s mother, … Continue reading
Filed under 2000-2009, 2009, Buncombe, Madison, Mountains, Novels in Series, Wildwind, Sharon
Joyce and Jim Lavene. The First Shall Be Last. New York: Avalon Books, 2007.
What an ending to the Sharyn Howard mystery series! Sheriff Howard confounds her colleagues and family by breaking off her long-time romantic relationship with county coroner Nick Thomopolis and taking up with sleazy state senator Jack Winter. Sharyn had previously … Continue reading
Joyce and Jim Lavene. Last One Down. New York: Avalon Books, 2004.
When Sheriff Sharyn Howard leaves Diamond Springs to attend a law enforcement training retreat, her staff must solve a murder and deal with a sniper in town. Meanwhile, Sharyn has her own problems. One of her deputies is seriously injured … Continue reading
Joyce and Jim Lavene. One Last Goodbye. New York: Avalon Books, 2000.
According to local legend, Navy Captain Billy Bost crashed his plane into Diamond Mountain Lake in 1944. More than 50 years later a Pulitzer Prize winning author comes to the mountain town of Diamond Mountain determined to find the plane, … Continue reading
Joyce and Jim Lavene. Last Dance. New York: Avalon Books, 1999.
It definitely isn’t Stephen King, but the plot of Jim and Joyce Lavene’s Last Dance does feature a girl named Carrie whose prom experience is less than stellar. In fact, Carrie Sommers, prom queen of Diamond Springs High School, is … Continue reading
Cheris F. Hodges. Cautious Heart. 2nd ed. Columbus, MS: Genesis Press, 2008.
Caprice Johnson, a second generation police officer, will tell you that it was the cold weather that drove her out of Chicago, but it really was a broken heart. Her man, Damien King, just wouldn’t be true, so Caprice left … Continue reading
Filed under 2000-2009, 2008, Hodges, Cheris F., Mecklenburg, Piedmont, Romance/Relationship
Joyce and Jim Lavene. Last Fires Burning. New York: Avalon Books, 2003.
In Last Fires Burning, the seventh mystery in this series, Sharyn Howard finds herself busily fighting fires–both literal and figurative. While her (fictional) Uwharrie Mountain town of Diamond Springs is threatened by wildfires, Sheriff Howard faces a tough reelection campaign … Continue reading
J.D. Rhoades. Good Day in Hell. New York: St. Martin’s, 2006.
Fayetteville-based bounty hunter Jack Keller returns in this sequel to The Devil’s Right Hand. Teamed up with his new girlfriend, a local sheriff’s deputy, Keller pursues a couple of murderers across the state. Check this title’s availability in the UNC … Continue reading
Filed under 2000-2009, 2006, Cumberland, Novels in Series, Piedmont, Rhoades, J.D., Suspense/Thriller
