Bücher veröffentlicht von L.J. Breedlove

A Woman's Place?Ruthie Brewster was on a mission to make sure every abused woman in Plains City, Texas, has a safe place to go.Until someone killed her.Plains City Gazette news editor Katy Williams admired Ruthie a lot. She's appalled: The police seem less than committed to finding her killer. A local minister thinks what she was doing was of the devil and that she got what was due her. Even her own brother seems unmoved by her death.Then someone kills another woman on the board of the Women's Shelter. It looks like the killer has a list. And Katy's name is on it.Book 3 in A Newspaper in Texas, a mystery series set in the 1980s when hair was big, skirts were short, and newspapers were booming.

Even Heroes Make Mistakes Lanky Purdue is an Alaskan icon. He's been there forever - the dashing Air Force pilot, the man who flew medicines into villages in dark winters, the man who has rescued more stranded climbers than anyone can count. If you need help, Lanky Purdue is the man you go to.So when Belle Robards shows up at Purdue Flight Service in the dead of winter looking for help, it's no great surprise to Dace Marshall, his office manager. So yes, she's wearing a skirt, high heeled boots and a fur jacket - in Talkeetna at 10 below - and she won't tell Dace what the problem is. But Lanky wouldn't fall for a pretty face and a bogus sob story. Would he? Book 4 in the Talkeetna series featuring Candace Marshall and Police Lt. Paul Kitka.

She fled her abuser, but a killer followed her.Paul Kitka likes fast cars, women and his job as a lieutenant in the Alaska State Patrol. He likes living in Talkeetna, a small town full of quirky people he's happy to call friends and neighbors. Life is good.Candace Marshall doesn't know what she likes - being married to an abusive husband stripped her of all personal preferences. But to her surprise, she likes Alaska.She came to Alaska to disappear. She chose Talkeetna, a small, remote town at the base of Mount Denali, to start over with a different name - in a state her husband hates, and the state hates him back. It was her best chance.When Candace finds him dead in her cabin, her first thought is to run again. Who would believe she didn't kill him?Paul Kitka does - reluctantly. But then, who did kill the lobbyist Alaska hates so much?Turns out half of Talkeetna had a reason to kill the man, and everyone is lying to him: Candace, the victim's family and co-workers, and even Paul's friends and neighbors.Now his job is on the line, his town is angry at him, and his partner wants to arrest Candace for murder. But what worries Paul the most is that in a town full of unstable and angry people, the murderer isn't done.

Find them. Find the missing women. Paul Kitka, a lieutenant in the Alaska State Patrol, is half-Tlingit, half white. And when an Inuit elder from Bethel gets the brush-off from the Anchorage police, it's Paul she turns to. Her granddaughter, a student at the University of Alaska in Anchorage, is missing. She thinks there may be more women missing. And the Anchorage police don't seem to care. But Mary Ayek, elder of her village and a director of the Bethel Native Alaskan Corporation, cares. And she has the power and prestige it takes to make others care. Starting with Lt. Paul Kitka. Find them, she orders. What is happening to our women?Third in a series of mysteries featuring Paul Kitka and Dace Marshall in Talkeetna, Alaska.