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The Richard Carter Novels #6
Call Her Sabine
A young woman awakes in a darkened room with no idea of where she is or how she got there.
A young wife is found drowned in the Saw Briar Country Club pool. Days later, another young woman’s body is found floating in a lake near the small Ozark town of Blue Creek. Hawthorn County Deputy, Richard Carter investigates the drownings. Are they mere tragedies brought on by unwise alcohol and prescription-drug abuse as they seem? Or are they the work of single killer as the rumor mill suggests?
Mavis, a coed at the community college, reports that her friend, and former roommate, has disappeared. Missing summer clothes and a cleaned-out refrigerator indicate that the girl merely “ran off” with a boyfriend for summer break. Richard comes to believe that Charlotte Fouts was abducted while jogging, although his only evidence is a fish that’s missing, money that should be missing, but isn’t, and a Shirley Temple doll.
Meanwhile, Charlie, armed only with sports clichés and fierce will power, endures, trying to discover the identity of her abductor and hoping that someone is looking for her.
A young wife is found drowned in the Saw Briar Country Club pool. Days later, another young woman’s body is found floating in a lake near the small Ozark town of Blue Creek. Hawthorn County Deputy, Richard Carter investigates the drownings. Are they mere tragedies brought on by unwise alcohol and prescription-drug abuse as they seem? Or are they the work of single killer as the rumor mill suggests?
Mavis, a coed at the community college, reports that her friend, and former roommate, has disappeared. Missing summer clothes and a cleaned-out refrigerator indicate that the girl merely “ran off” with a boyfriend for summer break. Richard comes to believe that Charlotte Fouts was abducted while jogging, although his only evidence is a fish that’s missing, money that should be missing, but isn’t, and a Shirley Temple doll.
Meanwhile, Charlie, armed only with sports clichés and fierce will power, endures, trying to discover the identity of her abductor and hoping that someone is looking for her.
450 pages, Kindle Edition
First published February 9, 2014
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About the author
A.R. Simmons
16 books59 followersAR Simmons grew up in the Missouri Ozarks. He walked a gravel road to a rural school evocative of “Walton’s Mountain.” His parents did factory work to buy things not provided by their subsistence farm which was passed down from his grandfather who cleared the land from the native forest. He and his wife (beta reader, illustrator, and muse) still live on that farm. So his roots run deep in the Ozark soil. Using the culture, language, and mores of this "Bible Belt" region, he writes culturally immersive stories of obsession set amidst the small-town and rural life that he knows and loves.
He began writing seriously with a suspense novel which he serialized around the turn of the millennium on his website www.bluecreeknovels. It took until 2013 for him to publish the first Richard Carter novel (Bonne Femme) as an e-book. The series now includes fourteen mystery/suspense stand-alone stories that also chronicle Richard’s life with each story spaced about a year apart. This required a year-by-year update to the technology available to the characters because time marches on.
PS. Simmons is a rather common drudge, so once considered changing his nom-de-plume to “Bess Sellers.”
He began writing seriously with a suspense novel which he serialized around the turn of the millennium on his website www.bluecreeknovels. It took until 2013 for him to publish the first Richard Carter novel (Bonne Femme) as an e-book. The series now includes fourteen mystery/suspense stand-alone stories that also chronicle Richard’s life with each story spaced about a year apart. This required a year-by-year update to the technology available to the characters because time marches on.
PS. Simmons is a rather common drudge, so once considered changing his nom-de-plume to “Bess Sellers.”
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February 28, 2017
Call Her Sabine is the best mystery/thriller novel that I have read all year. I am always a sucker for crime novels that involve kidnappings due to the intensity involved, and A.R. Simmons' descriptions and characters just flew off of the page. The novel is the sixth in a series, but it is a standalone novel and can be read without having read the other novels in the series. I loved how the novel showed both the sides of the victims as well as Carter, the main character who is a policeman. The writing was dry and the descriptions of the crimes were not explicit, making the novel a fun read because not too much was given away. The story was in depth, and it created a puzzle for the reader to analyze. Call Her Sabine was a true page turner, and I would happily read it over again, which is something that I rarely do.
My only critique is that the novel could be choppy at times, and some of the events seemed a bit rushed. It was clear that Simmons did not want to over-describe any of the events, but I do wish that some of them had been expanded on. However, this did not deter from my reading experience, and I enjoyed every element to the story.
Something that I sometimes see in crime novels is that the victims are not taken seriously, or they are not emphasized as much as they should. I do not like crime novels that seem to care more about the detectives or police officers involved, and Simmons did a great job of making sure that the victims had faces, names, and stories that were important to the case. He made me empathize with the victims and what they were put through, and I wanted to hold all of them by the end. Carter was also painted as a hard police officer, but he showed compassion at many times and his humanity is what helped me connect to him. I fought along with him as he investigated the different crimes, and I began to see him as a friend and a colleague by the end of the novel.
Call Her Sabine is a perfect novel for those who are interested in life-like investigations and kidnapping/murder crimes. As someone who has worked in corrections, I found the book to be realistic and intense. I would highly suggest this novel to anyone who loves a great crime story, or those looking to get into the genre, and you can't go wrong with an A.R. Simmons novel.
My only critique is that the novel could be choppy at times, and some of the events seemed a bit rushed. It was clear that Simmons did not want to over-describe any of the events, but I do wish that some of them had been expanded on. However, this did not deter from my reading experience, and I enjoyed every element to the story.
Something that I sometimes see in crime novels is that the victims are not taken seriously, or they are not emphasized as much as they should. I do not like crime novels that seem to care more about the detectives or police officers involved, and Simmons did a great job of making sure that the victims had faces, names, and stories that were important to the case. He made me empathize with the victims and what they were put through, and I wanted to hold all of them by the end. Carter was also painted as a hard police officer, but he showed compassion at many times and his humanity is what helped me connect to him. I fought along with him as he investigated the different crimes, and I began to see him as a friend and a colleague by the end of the novel.
Call Her Sabine is a perfect novel for those who are interested in life-like investigations and kidnapping/murder crimes. As someone who has worked in corrections, I found the book to be realistic and intense. I would highly suggest this novel to anyone who loves a great crime story, or those looking to get into the genre, and you can't go wrong with an A.R. Simmons novel.
June 4, 2016
A fascinating insight into the mind of a strong abducted woman and Carter, the investigator who is trying to find her. The deputy is lucky enough to be backed by a sensible, astute wife.
The plot kept me enthralled until the end while I tried to decide if she would be rescued in time.
This is another well-written novel in the Carter series. The few editing mistakes don't deter from the story.
Well worth reading, the plot gives hope to all of those people damaged by events beyond their control.
The plot kept me enthralled until the end while I tried to decide if she would be rescued in time.
This is another well-written novel in the Carter series. The few editing mistakes don't deter from the story.
Well worth reading, the plot gives hope to all of those people damaged by events beyond their control.
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