BLURB:
Still recovering from the traumatic
events of the past year, newlyweds Aggie Malone, police chief of Dogleg Island,
and Deputy Sheriff Ryan Grady are looking forward to a carefree day of picnics,
pirates and buried treasure with their precocious—and uncannily perceptive--
border collie, Flash. But when Flash discovers a body in a shallow grave on the
deserted Wild Horse Island Nature Preserve, a tangled knot of conspiracy,
murder and deception begins to unfold, revealing that the things that are
buried are often the most dangerous and the only pirates you have to fear are
the ones that live next door.
Fifteen hundred miles away, an ex-con and a fifteen year old girl embark upon a crime spree that will earn them the nicknames “Bonnie and Clyde”. As they make their way inexorably south, Aggie, Grady and Flash are thrust into the middle of a murder investigation that leads to the arrest of one of their neighbors and the attempted suicide of another. When a search of the dead girl’s belongings reveals a priceless emerald bracelet and two of the islands most popular residents go missing, the puzzle becomes even more complicated. Grady and Aggie struggle to put all the pieces into place while Flash, ever obsessed with understanding the human condition, wrestles with a more painful dilemma: how do you tell the good guys from the bad guys when they are so often the same person?
Fifteen hundred miles away, an ex-con and a fifteen year old girl embark upon a crime spree that will earn them the nicknames “Bonnie and Clyde”. As they make their way inexorably south, Aggie, Grady and Flash are thrust into the middle of a murder investigation that leads to the arrest of one of their neighbors and the attempted suicide of another. When a search of the dead girl’s belongings reveals a priceless emerald bracelet and two of the islands most popular residents go missing, the puzzle becomes even more complicated. Grady and Aggie struggle to put all the pieces into place while Flash, ever obsessed with understanding the human condition, wrestles with a more painful dilemma: how do you tell the good guys from the bad guys when they are so often the same person?
*That's a good question! Now for an excerpt:
Tracy
heard the sound of a car engine rounding the corner at the intersection of Pine and Park, and in another moment she saw
the flash of headlights. Her heart
slammed and she shrank back against the building, but as the car turned into the park near the
streetlight she noticed the distinctive primer-gray passenger door and heard
the familiar thrum of the stereo’s sub-woofers.
She snatched up her backpack and ran into the light.
Steve
leaned over to push open the passenger door for her and she climbed in, tossing
her backpack into the back seat. The
car smelled like stale cigarette smoke and spilled beer, the best smells in the
world to her. Steve wrapped an arm
around her neck and kissed her hard.
Then he grinned at her. “Ready
for an adventure, baby?”
She
replied breathlessly, “Ready!”
Tracy
Ann Sullivan was fifteen years old. A
year ago she had never smoked a cigarette, or shoplifted condoms from a
drugstore, or even made out with a boy for longer than a few minutes. Until now, the furthest she had ever been
from home was summer camp. She was a
basically a good girl. If anyone had
told her that within a week she’d be wanted for grand theft auto, armed
robbery, and murder, she would have laughed.
But
that was exactly what was going to happen.
*Interesting!
AUTHOR Bio and Links:
Donna Ball is the author of
over a hundred novels under several different pseudonyms in a variety of genres
that include romance, mystery, suspense, paranormal, western adventure,
historical and women’s fiction. Recent popular series include the Ladybug Farm
series by Berkley Books and the Raine Stockton Dog Mystery series. Donna is an
avid dog lover and her dogs have won numerous titles for agility, obedience and
canine musical freestyle. She divides her time between the Blue Ridge mountains and the east coast of Florida, where she
lives with a variety of four-footed companions.
You can contact her at http://www.donnaball.net
The Sound of Running Horses, Book Two in the Dogleg Island Mystery series, is
available July 15 2016 in paperback, and for Kindle and Nook.
Buy it from Amazon.com here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01GOLP4FE
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