Tag Archives: Serial killers
Sallie Bissell. Call the Devil By His Oldest Name. New York: Bantam Dell, 2004.
Atlanta prosecutor Mary Crow is in the middle of a heart-wrenching child abuse/child pornography case when she is informed that her infant goddaughter has been abducted. The call sends her to a Cherokee gathering in Tennessee and into the woods … Continue reading
Sallie Bissell. In the Forest of Harm. New York: Bantam Books, 2001.
Prosecutor Mary Crow’s trip to the mountains with her two college friends was supposed to be a celebration; she has just won her sixth murder case in a row. The plan was to stop in her childhood hometown of Jump … Continue reading
Susan Whitfield. Just North of Luck. West Conshohocken, PA: Infinity Publishing, 2007.
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 … Continue reading
Filed under 2000-2009, 2007, Madison, Mountains, Mystery, Novels in Series, Novels Set in Fictional Places, Whitfield, Susan
Richard H. Triebe. On a Rising Tide. Bloomington, IN: Authorhouse, 2006.
By June 1864, Wilmington was the only open Confederate port on the eastern seaboard. Cargo brought into the port allowed the Confederacy to fight on. Blockade running and Sherman’s March to the Sea changed Wilmington, bringing to the city thousands … Continue reading
Filed under 2000-2009, 2006, Brunswick, Coast, Historical, New Hanover, Triebe, Richard H.
Karen Dodd. Begin Again, Quinn. New Bern, NC: K. E. Dodd, 2008.
Quinn Winslow is happy to retire and move back to the North Carolina coast where she grew up. She’s had a good career, but a bit of a disappointing life. She hopes that being back among friends will help her … Continue reading
Douglas Quinn. Blue Heron Marsh. New York: iUniverse, Inc., 2007
Former military-investigator Webb Sawyer was recently released from a U.S. Army psychiatric hospital and he returned to the Outer Banks, hoping for a little peace and quiet. After moving into his father’s stilted fishing shack on Blue Heron Marsh, he … Continue reading
Bill Benners. My Sister’s Keeper. New Bern, N.C.: McBryde Publishing, 2007.
Richard Baimbridge returns to Wilmington to help his sister Martha recover from an assault she received while researching a story on the sexual assault of a minor. As Martha heals, she pulls Richard into her investigation. This puts them both … Continue reading
Filed under 2000-2009, 2007, Benners, Bill, Coast, Mystery, New Hanover
Bill Floyd. The Killer’s Wife. New York: St. Martin’s Minotaur, 2008.
Six years ago, Leigh Wren’s testimony helped place her husband on death row for multiple murders. After the trial ended she started a new life under a new name, moving her young son from California to Cary, NC. The life … Continue reading
Filed under 2000-2009, 2008, Floyd, Bill, Piedmont, Suspense/Thriller, Wake
Mariah Stewart. Final Truth. New York: Random House, 2006.
Regan Landry is a journalist working on a profile of Lester Ray Barnes, who had just been released from death row after it was learned that he was convicted on faulty evidence. Now, long after Landry begins her profile, Barnes … Continue reading
Filed under 2000-2009, 2006, Coast, Novels in Series, Stewart, Mariah, Suspense/Thriller
Karen Rose. Have You Seen Her? New York: Warner Books, 2004.
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 … Continue reading
Filed under 2000-2009, 2004, Piedmont, Romance/Relationship, Rose, Karen, Suspense/Thriller, Wake
