She was supposed to be taking a few days off to work on her wedding plans, but when the SBI is short-staffed, Agent Logan Hunter is called in to work a gruesome murder case. When she gets to the crime scene–a historic house in rural Ivanhoe, NC–both it and its evidence have been compromised, and she is told that she won’t be receiving any additional SBI help any time soon. It doesn’t take long to figure out that dead woman, an animal rights activist, had a lot of enemies in the surrounding community. As she searches for the killer, Logan questions local hunters, has a run in with a snake-handling congregation, and battles her own night terrors. This is the third book in the Logan Hunter Mystery series.

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Posted: April 1st, 2009 under 2000-, 2009, Coastal Plain, Mystery, Novels in Series, Sampson, Whitfield, Susan.
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In Just North of Luck, the second book in the Logan Hunter mystery series, new SBI agent Logan trades the beach for the Blue Ridge Mountains. Her first assignment is to expose a moonshine ring in fictional Moss County, but after a school janitor is brutally murdered in the town of Trust, she offers to help with that investigation as well. As time passes, the deaths of more school employees have Logan and a local detective searching for a serial killer. In addition to murder and moonshine, Logan also uncovers a local meth producer and faces some of the ghosts from her past.

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Posted: November 17th, 2008 under 2000-, 2007, Madison, Mountains, Mystery, Novels Set in Fictional Places, Novels in Series, Whitfield, Susan.
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• Genesis Beach. New York: iUniverse, Inc., 2007.
• Just North of Luck. West Conshohocken, PA: Infinity Publishing, 2007
• Hell Swamp. Spring, TX: L & L Dreamspell, 2009.

These mysteries follow Logan Hunter, an agent for the State Bureau of Investigation, as she begins her career and moves around the state attempting to solve crimes. The action in the first book takes place at the beach and Hunter is still an intern, trying to complete her required field hours. By the second book, she is a full-fledged agent assigned to find a serial killer in the mountains.

Posted: May 23rd, 2008 under Novels in Series, Series, Whitfield, Susan.
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In this, the first of the Logan Hunter mysteries, North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation intern Logan Hunter is assigned to the Genesis Beach Police Department to complete her required field hours. Although inexperienced, Logan is assigned to investigate the high-profile death of a local millionaire. In the course of her investigation she faces a variety of challenges, including a hurricane, recurring nightmares, and frustration as her investigation grinds to a halt after a second local death.

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Posted: May 13th, 2008 under 2000-, 2007, Coast, Mystery, Novels Set in Fictional Places, Novels in Series, Whitfield, Susan.
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Special Agent Steven Thatcher is on the trail of a serial killer who is targeting cheerleaders in the fictional Raleigh suburb of Pineville. In between chasing criminals, Thatcher, a widower, finds time to care for his three sons. Worried about his eldest son, he meets with the boy’s teacher, Jenna Marshall, and the sparks fly. Their romantic involvement becomes especially complicated when it turns out that the killer may be eyeing Jenna as his next victim.

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Posted: March 13th, 2008 under 2000-, 2004, Piedmont, Romance/Relationship, Rose, Karen, Suspense/Thriller, Wake.
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