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Piper Boone meets a mysterious knight in shining armor, Tucker Landry, when he risks his life to save hers in a tragic shoot out.
This seemingly random catastrophe isn’t really random at all. Piper was the target because of her family business, Boone Industries.
Piper is still reeling from the loss of her daughter over a decade ago and remaining in her massive family beach house, unable to find her footing in life. Tucker Landry has managed to break past that wall in Piper and call forth a new, brave Piper. But Tucker has past demons of his own.
As Piper pushes for answers for her family’s odd past and current bad luck of murder after murder, can she figure out who is behind the cause of the “family curse” before she becomes a victim herself?
Time is running out as a hurricane presses upon the Boone family private island, Curlew.
Wow. Just wow! The twists and turns in this plot kept me guessing what could possibly be next! And the twistedness of the members of this “perfect family” is downright disturbing.
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After being hard pressed to find some work, Gwen Marcy finds herself in the small town of Pineville to help catch a serial rapist.
But from the very beginning something about this town, about the people, is so very off.
Before Gwen knows it, she is steered away from her original purpose for being in Pineville and drawn into the politicals of this small town. Her next assignment: to infiltrate a snake handling religious group to expose illegal activity.
Gwen is advised that she can trust no one. She knows the recent uptick in body count and this religious group are connected; however, her theories and concerns fall on deaf ears of local law enforcement.
Can Gwen uncover the truth, convince the right people to believe her before she turns into a victim herself?
Carrie Stuart Parks once again takes us on a thrilling race against time. This entire series is an addictive page turner that I highly recommend! I’ve given When Death Draws Near, book number three in the Gwen Marcey series, a 5/5 star rating.
Carrie Stuart Parks is a very gifted novelist, who has such a remarkable ability to suck a reader into the thrilling storylines. I devour page after page seeking the resolutions for the victims as well as Gwen Marcey.
Not many people can appreciate dark humor with a hint of snark, but Carrie does this well!
As a reader, I also find myself wanting to be a forensic artist! Thank you, Carrie, for such a well developed character and such thrilling and suspenseful storylines.
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Gwen Marcy is still on the rebound from her cancer fight and almost losing her life to a psycho killer several months prior. As she struggles to try to get back on her feet with her career as a forensic artist and continues to raise her teenage daughter, she is suddenly thrown into a crime scene practically in her backyard when her dog brings her a skull. A human skull.
And there are more victims. And one has lived to tell about it.
The striking resemblance of the victims to Gwen’s daughter is uncanny and a nightmare to come.
Can Gwen keep her daughter safe, but also help solve the mystery of who is terrorizing and murdering these young victims?
Carrie Stuart Parks has done such a fantastic job of creating a character in Gwen Marcy, who is so relatable and absolutely hilarious. I don’t smile/laugh in many stories (at least that I notice), but the humor is catchy with an edge of snark and helps balance out the seriousness and emotional aspects of the murders.
Literally, the only thing that stopped me from a 5 star rating was the “gore” details. While I’m sure a real life murder can be absolutely unimaginably gory, I found that even with me being a nurse I cringed at some details in this story.
I give this book a 4.5 star review. I absolutely love Carrie Stuart Parks’ writing style in the first person as well as her humor found in Gwen. She also write from experience of working as a forensic artist, adding to the validity of her storytelling. I’m literally itching to pick up the third book from the library!
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An Accidental Lifeby Pamela Binnings Ewen is a fiction writing of actual events. Trigger warning: this novel contains storytelling and recounts of real life events of premature babies being born alive after labor induced abortions. If you are sensitive to any of these subjects please stop here.
Peter and Rebecca enter into new unknown legal territory in their law careers in the 1980’s. Both aspiring successful lawyers focusing on the success of both their careers.
For Rebecca, she sees her new firm partnership role grind to a screeching halt when she realizes the unthinkable has happened. She’s pregnant.
In an age and time where women’s rights and success in the work place are rising, what will Rebecca choose? Her career or the life growing inside of her? Or can she have both?
Peter is presented with a possible prosecution case that will ultimately reveal the world’s best kept secret.
As a pediatric nurse myself I found this story of real accounts disturbingly enlightening. With nursing being such a large field, it can be easy to be unknowingly blinded to issues right in front of us. I cannot imagine the turmoil of being handed a birthed live micro preemie and being ordered by a physician not to provide medical care and instead take “it” to medical waste.
My heart is heavy for the babies that this happened to as well as the nurses who were shut down, declined to provide life-saving medical care and made to feel they had no choice but to hold these preemies until they died.
Whether you are pro life or pro choice, the issue presented is legally when does life begin? At what point is a baby viewed as a human with the same right to live vs. no rights as tissue within the mother’s body.
While my earlier trigger warning is a courtesy, I truly believe everyone should read this book. Just because a subject is controversial and makes our soul uncomfortable doesn’t mean we should continue life like an ostrich with his head in the ground.
I rated this book a 4/5 stars. I absolutely loved the medical aspects of the book since I’m a nurse. While I was easily distracted by Pamela Binnings Ewen’s style of writing and sentence structure, she did a remarkable job writing from law experience in a way that readers can understand. I did not feel lost in all of the law jargon. And truly, I consider this author very brave to write about a subject that can make many readers uncomfortable. I would like to thank this author for essentially honoring these infants who have passed on in this way as well as speaking up for nurses by shedding light to this well-kept secret of the 1980’s.
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