Matty Cruz is trying to start over in Couper, Washington, a tree-filled city nestled on the banks of the Columbia River, but that can be difficult when the town she chose happens to have the highest violent-crime rate in the Pacific Northwest.
In the fourth book of the completed Matty Cruz Adventure series, Matty is optimistic that her new life as a young retiree is finally coming together, despite an initial misstep or two. But life is never that simple in Couper. Relationships sour, neighbors become vengeful, people she thought she could count on let her down, and someone even threatens her adorable, little dog.
If that isn't bad enough, a serial killer is loose in the city, and Matty may be exactly his type. Will she be able to sort flawed friend from foe before it's too late?
R.Marquez resides in the Pacific Northwest, a place that inspired her to create the fictional city of Couper, WA, located across the Columbia River from Portland, OR.
She completed the Matty Cruz Adventures and is now working on the Carol Karuso Mysteries. The first book, Fallen Angel is available. The next book, "Lost Romeo," should be out early 2018.
R.Marquez's short stories have been published in Over My Dead Body!, Mysterical-E, KZINE ,and Crimespree magazines, among others.
I so hope the next one is ready for me to buy and read. This was the best yet. Chilling but full of warmth, if you can imagine it. The characters are so alive and realistic. No cardboard imitations of reality here.