Trevor Wiltzen

My thanks to the Author publisher's and Book Sirens for providing me with a Kindle version of this book to read and honestly review.
Completely engaging and interesting throughout well written with quality. characterisation. This is the second book in this series and while there are numerous references to our heroine previous adventures this in no way spoilt my enjoyment of this book. What starts out as a full time diner and motel owner, part time Private Investigator looking into a missing person case, becomes a dangerous dark grim threatening tale of drugs and under age kidnapping.
Completely recommended.… (altro)

Heart of a Runaway by Trevor Wiltzen

Mabel is a single mother in Blue River, Washington who is struggling to raise her two small boys and her teenaged niece. She owns and runs a small cafe and motel in town. She becomes concerned, when a teenaged girl, Karen is found at the local sawmill murdered and raped. Mabel is concerned because she told the local Sheriff, Dan, that she saw Karen and another young man named Winston arguing, shortly before Karen was found dead. Sheriff Dan goes out and arrests Winston on the charge of murder, without doing any investigating. Mabel is concerned that Winston is not being treated properly because he is black.

Mabel fears that she is the only person who truly cares that Winston gets a fair trial. Especially when the local drug lord sends his white supremacist buddies over to try and lynch poor Winston. She finds herself buttering up Sheriff Dan, who comes in regularly to eat dinner so that she can have a look at the evidence.

The drug lord is unhappy that she's nosing around and makes several threats on Mabel's life and her children's lives. That doesn't stop Mabel. She visits Winston in the county jail, taking his statement. She goes to his arraignment and ends up speaking with Winston's public defender and convinces him that she doesn't think Winston killed anyone.

It comes down to Mabel's sleuthing skills to find out the truth. She meets Karen's parents and promises them that she will get to the bottom of the case of who murdered their daughter.

It's an interesting book, held my attention, and had a good conclusion at the end.

Many thanks for the complimentary copy from IBPA and NetGalley, I was under no obligation to post a review.… (altro)