Bücher von Renee Kumor

"Perhaps the best romance/mystery series I have ever read ..." -Pamela Paige, former feature writer, Florida Times-UnionThe long lazy summer of the pandemic finds the gang in River Bend adapting to the new normal. Lynn and Dusty both maintain home offices. Lynn declares her back yard a mask-free zone allowing friends to gather face-to-unmasked-face while social distancing. Crime seems to have surrendered to covid until Teniquia gets involved in a murder in Des Moines and Dusty and Danny organize to protect Emily Jacobs and her great-grandchildren from another murder attempt. The story wraps on the promising note that a vaccination is expected soon.

"Perhaps the best romance/mystery series I have ever read ..." -Pamela Paige, former feature writer, Florida Times-Union"I'm hooked ..."-Martha Griswold, Online Critics CornerThe gang in River Bend is enjoying an early spring after a January filled with snow. As everyone enjoys life, they hear ominous reports of an impending world-wide pandemic. As most people prepare for and complain about the challenges of lockdown, masking, and hand sanitizing, one fellow, Heath Dawson, sees this as an opportunity to commit a few crimes. To his thinking masking for health will allow him to move through the community unidentified. With his masking plan in place, he prepares to murder several relatives and ease the way for him to inherit a substantial amount of money.Lynn, Dusty, and their friends deal with a pandemic, attempted murder, and arson while adjusting to the new normal with online schooling, online meetings, and online shopping.

"The folks of River Bend have become like family. I love following their adventures from book to book. Renee Kumar has found a winning recipe for an ongoing romance series that is peppered with mystery and murder."- Marcy Birdweather, Marcy's MusingsIt's the beginning of a new year. Lynn Powers is still recovering from witnessing her friend Susan Carmichael die in an explosion. Polly, Susan's teenage daughter, has agreed to stay in River Bend for the rest of her freshman year of high school. She is having some difficult periods of adjustment. As Lynn and her friends cope with Polly, Yolanda Valeri receives a bequest from an elderly admirer. She is given a half-a-million dollars to distribute to local nonprofits as she sees fit. However, Lynn and her friends are drawn into a mystery as a nonprofit tries to intimidate Yolanda into granting it all her money.

Readers have this to say about The River Bend Chronicles:"Take a chance on reading the River Bend Chronicles. You won't be disappointed.""Renee gets better with each book she writes.""I love this series of books. I feel like I am visiting a town I grew up in when I read another volume."The gang in River Bend find themselves dealing with aging parents and with a local nonprofit taking advantage of the elderly in the community. As Piper's father undergoes knee surgery, her mother, Glenda, is left alone at the farm seeming to suffer from a mental decline. Lynn and Dusty discover a dead man on the farm and the folks in River Bend become concerned with safety for the community's elder citizens when the investigation into the man's death leads to evidence of a local nonprofit cheating and scamming elder citizens. Strokes, surgery, scams and murder focus concern on the aging citizens and their safety with a little romance thrown in.

"As helpful a book about the world of nonprofit boards as you'll ever come across ..."- Shirrel Rhoades, Board President, KWAHS Custom House MuseumMost communities rely on services provided by nonprofit organizations: a shelter for victims of domestic violence; safe afterschool programs; emergency support for victims of fire or flood from the American Red Cross and local groups; and social need support from groups such as food pantries and homeless shelters. In addition local nonprofits augment the life of a community through arts and theater programs as well as support for the local libraries, museums and schools. There is always support to be found for animals and the environment as well. In fact, many of us find ourselves ready and willing to support an array of local nonprofits because of the work they do in addressing concerns close to us. This book does not address issues that relate to multimillion-dollar agencies, but to the challenges faced locally by staff and board members - from bylaws to human resource issues to the always necessary fundraising.

"I nearly swoon every time I pick up the next book in the River Bend series. The love story of Lynn and Dusty, the mysteries, and the interaction of the inhabitants make me want to move to River Bend!"- Marcy Birdweather, Marcy's MusingsRiver Bend is alive with spring blossoms and Lynn Powers is doing her best to trade, barter or steal samples of some of the best perennials for her garden. Dusty, her husband, interrupts her spring fever as he draws her into helping with his new assignment. He has been named to a local county board by the sheriff to work with early release felons. According to a new state law, each county is to create a new local nonprofit to help the early release prisoners as they update their education, enroll in job training, find work and create a stable life in the county. Dusty, a law enforcement professional, has no expectations for success of the program or the early release felons. His suspicions are proved valid as two of the three felons rob a bank and kidnap Lynn and her friend, Amelia Shipley. The River Bend gang muddles through spring with robbery, dancing lessons, Memorial Day parades and unexpected romance.