Geraldine Powell

Blue Ridge, Black Heart (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Disgraced, disbarred and defriended, ex-lawyer Morgan Pike is nearly bankrupt and desperate for a paycheck. She accepts the only job she's been offered in a year of lookingprivate investigator with a Chattanooga, Tennessee firm. Morgan has been with the company for a year. Her goal is to stay out of trouble and serve the remaining two years of her four-year suspension and return to her prior life as a defense attorney in Richmond, Virginia.
Bored by divorce and insurance cases and against the advice of her boss, she becomes involved in the search for a beautiful young woman who has disappeared without a trace. The case takes her from the Blue Ridge Mountains of north Georgia to the dark underbelly of post-Katrina New Orleans and back. Her unrelenting quest for the truth propels her into terrifying clashes with members of a violent survivalist cabal in the southern Appalachian Mountains. The investigation builds to a stunning and dramatic conclusion that no one saw coming.

Here is a short excerpt from the book:

"Sunday morning I took my first cup of coffee and sat at the café table by the sliding doors leading to the balcony of my apartment. I pulled my robe close and leaned back from the table. Something flashed in the glass door. The left side of my face erupted with the pain of a thousand wasp stings. The door spider-webbed with cracks radiating from a small hole. I recognized the sound of a bullet snapping past my head.
I sat stunned, shocked, uncomprehending. A second passed, then my body reacted. I dived for the floor just as the glass in the door disintegrated. A second bullet cracked through the room, tearing into the floor a foot from my face. A third shot blasted through the kitchen wall and smashed into the dishwasher.
I scrambled on hands and knees toward the bedroom. Three more bullets ripped through the walls of the apartment. Using the bed as a shield between me and the outside wall, I reached up to the nightstand, grabbed my phone and dialed.
"911. What is your emergency?"
"Someone's shooting at meagain."

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Geraldine Powell
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. August 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781311339362
• Artikelnr.: 69964583

Autorenporträt

Many story tellers are home bodies but not Geraldine. She loves pushing her car to the limit on the race track and long quiet hikes in the mountains. She has been a waitress, a bartender, an oyster shucker, and a bicycle messenger. During her college years she sold encyclopedias in the coal fields of West Virginia. After college she managed a couple of construction companies. She is an award winning ceramic artist and for a short time owned an art gallery. Now she and her partner operate an orchid nursery. Powell lives with her partner, five cats and a dog on the side of Signal Mountain near Chattanooga. She has spent much of her life in the mountains of Tennessee and southern Virginia and has an abiding affection for the southern Appalachians. She also loves mystery novels. So it's no surprise that her novels combines the two.
She brings this broad experience and an unusual sense of humor to her novels."