"Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive."
Haven Park, Wyoming was always a place where manners were minded and secrets were kept. However, when a brutal murder rocked the city to its core, many skeletons began to escape from their closets.
In the second book of this series, the personal lives of Haven Park's most upstanding continue to unravel. As relationships are compromised and promises are broken, one more resident finds themselves in the cross hairs of a killer.
Bex Aaron is too old to be concerned with convention. Thus, she's going to give you some random facts about herself, and about her books, in the hopes that it will make you smile...even if just for a moment.
Bex Aaron's legal name is Rebecca, and you may also call her that if you wish. Just never call her Becky. She loathes Becky.
She lives in Texas, and works as a legal assistant. It's a pretty swell job. She's pretty happy.
She is divorced, and she's pretty happy about that too.
She loves the color purple, both the actual color and the novel and movie of the same name.
She would like to buy the world a Coke.
She originally wrote the Independence Day series when she was 14 years old, back in 1997. Over time, she thought of ways she could improve on the original effort and the current incarnation made its debut as webfiction on July 4, 2009.
She took a year to write the first two books and three years to write the third. A lot of people got angry with her about this, and she does apologize.
Independence Day is a story about a small town, full of hard working, god fearing people...and one of them happens to be a murderer. It's expected to run a series of five books, and book four, Dirty Little Secret, is coming May 1, 2015.
Ok, so I am hooked but I did not realize there were five books to this story or I would not have picked it up until they were all out. Independence Day begins with the first murder in ten years in the town of Haven Park Wyoming, population 517 residents who are close knit, hard working and God fearing people. Carol Mathison, a lifelong resident and the only daughter of retired police chief Stanley Rogers, was found strangled in the park on the morning of July 5, leaving the community stunned. With her murder the secrets come out and this close knit community has much to hide. The mystery is well developed, and the author choose to focus more on the question of who is responsible for the murder rather than focusing on the suspense of the murder. The story is skillfully written and well-worth reading, but having only two parts of the story and nothing more recently just leaves the reader hanging.
I bit irritated the books don't have an end??? I love a series but each book needs a beginning and an end, not acceptable to end with a "to be continued". There are 2 more volumes out and I will read them because the story line captured me and I need to know who the killer is!!! As for writing style a little over done on the descriptions, often felt like a student whose teacher continues to explain in different ways because she didn't think you're getting it. And the use of way to many studders, I...I just. I....I'm surprised. He...he thought etc...