Excellent murder mystery. An easy read.

Fast paced. Interesting construction.

Highly recommended.

Quinn Alexander has committed an unthinkable crime.

To avoid spending her life in prison, Quinn makes a run for it. She leaves behind her home, her job, and her family. She grabs her passport and heads for the northern border before the police can discover what she’s done.

But when an unexpected snowstorm forces her off the road, Quinn must take refuge at the broken-down, isolated Baxter Motel. The handsome and kindly owner, Nick Baxter, is only too happy to offer her a cheap room for the night.

Unfortunately, the Baxter Motel isn’t the quiet, safe haven it seemed to be. The motel has a dark and disturbing past. And in the dilapidated house across the way, the silhouette of Nick’s ailing wife is always at the window. Always watching.

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I’m not a fan of all the McFadden books.

For example, I got about 1/3 of the way through her book The Tenant — then quit because the protagonist, Blake Porter, was so annoying. 😀

She is very popular, however.

Excellent.

The chase takes them to Glacier National Park. A Grizzly shows up.

Shadow Woman (1997) is 3rd book in the Jane Whitefield series by Thomas Perry.

Jane Whitefield is a Native American (Seneca) who has made a career out of helping people disappear.

When her latest client, a Las Vegas gaming executive who has lost the trust of his criminally-connected bosses, asks for help, Jane Whitefield gets him out of town with a spectacular display of casino magic.

Then she keeps her promise, gives up her dangerous trade, marries her loyal doctor, and settles down to live peacefully in upstate New York.

As if.

… her client screws up.

Jane’s highly developed code of honor makes her leave her bridal bed to rescue him from an eerily psychotic Los Angeles couple who use everything from sex games to attack dogs to track him down.

Another great Lucas Davenport book. He’s morose and unmotivated at the start, his future wife having just left him.

John Sandford:

Secret Prey, the ninth of the Prey series featuring Lucas Davenport, is the most intricately plotted of my books, at least so far …

… Secret Prey, starts with a murder, and then expands to a whole batch of murders, extending more than twenty years back in time. There are numerous suspects.

There are at least three subplots, unrelated to the main story, but fitting within it (the after-effects of an old romance, the beginnings of a new romance, the detection and arrest of a bunch of improbable opium junkies) and the main plot itself has a couple of subplots, including a continuing case of domestic abuse, and another new romance. …

JOHN SANDFORD ON SECRET PREY – Author’s Introduction

The first book in this trilogy was excellent ➙ Even.

Though still entertained by David Trevellyan, something of a British naval intelligence officer James Bond, I found the plot of this one much less skilled.

Die Twice (2010) is 2nd in the David Trevellyan trilogy.

He’s one of the best undercover agents in the world. A seasoned operative for British intelligence.

But when he finds a body in the streets of New York, David Trevellyan is a prime suspect.

Arrested by the NYPD, interrogated by the FBI, Trevellyan swears he had nothing to do with it. But no one believes him―especially when the victim turns out to be a federal agent.

Now his country won’t help him. His contacts can’t save him. But that won’t stop a man like Trevellyan. Whoever set him up is going down.

Even if it kills him…

Excellent

Andrew Grant is the brother of bestselling thriller writer Lee Child. When he writes Reacher, his pseudonym is Andrew Child.

Even (2009) was his 1st published novel. And it’s great. Much different than Lee Child.

Our hero is David Trevellyan, something of a British naval intelligence officer James Bond.

He’s one of the best undercover agents in the world.

A seasoned operative for British intelligence.

But when he finds a body in the streets of New York, David Trevellyan is a prime suspect.

Arrested by the NYPD, interrogated by the FBI, Trevellyan swears he had nothing to do with it. But no one believes him―especially when the victim turns out to be a federal agent.

Now his country won’t help him. His contacts can’t save him. But that won’t stop a man like Trevellyan. Whoever set him up is going down. Even if it kills him…

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Quite good.

An easy read. But with some entertaining twists.

House on Fire (2020) is 4th in the series.

Nick Heller, private spy, exposes secrets that powerful people would rather keep hidden.

At the funeral of his good friend Sean, an army buddy who once saved Nick’s life and had struggled with opioid addiction since returning wounded from war, a stranger approaches Nick with a job.

The woman is a member of the Kimball family, whose immense fortune was built on opiates. Now she wants to become a whistleblower, exposing evidence that Kimball Pharmaceutical knew its biggest money-maker drug, Oxydone, was dangerously addictive and led directly to the overdoses and deaths of people like Sean.

Nick agrees instantly, eager to avenge Sean’s death, but he quickly finds himself entangled in the complicated family dynamics of the Kimball dynasty. …

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Dance for the Dead (1996) is the 2nd book in the Jane Whitefield series.

Jane Whitefield is a Native American who has made a career out of helping people disappear.

Perry weaves Native American history, stories, theology, and cultural practices into each novel.

This book is intense.

To protect a young boy in Dance for the Dead, Jane has to hunt down the person responsible for killing multiple people.

Another client that Jane reluctantly accepts had stolen millions of dollars through fraud, but the client’s expertise helps Jane identify the killer.

From the Publisher

One of the reasons that I love Thomas Perry’s Jane Whitfield books is that they are filled with so much arcane information about the darker side of life.

Perry fills you in on how to fabricate a life, steal a car, or set up a bank account using someone else’s Social Security Number.