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Aftermath
Baltimore February 1980 Clients don’t usually arrive at Baltimore PI Anne Carter’s office in a hail of gunfire, but EMT Charlie Magee does. He wants her to find out who is trying to kill him and why. The only unusual thing that has happened lately is that he found a man on Hollins Street and tried to keep him alive. But could she trust him? The police and fire departments don’t believe him, and when he turns on the black Irish charm, neither does she. Vivian Rowlandson is another matter. Her husband Glen, a retired lieutenant colonel of Special Forces, is missing, and she fears he’s had a blackout, something that she says began in Viet Nam. He’s not in the morgue. He’s not in a hospital. There’s not much to go on, and when his adopted son, Phi, disappears too, she begins to wonder if he’s really had a blackout.
Meanwhile, her personal life is in its usual chaotic state. Her daughter, Elizabeth, is in a panic because her lover has told her that if they don’t get married, he’s going to leave her. To make matters worse, Joe Curtis, a former client is trying to kill her.
Meanwhile, her personal life is in its usual chaotic state. Her daughter, Elizabeth, is in a panic because her lover has told her that if they don’t get married, he’s going to leave her. To make matters worse, Joe Curtis, a former client is trying to kill her.
239 pages, Kindle Edition
Published February 17, 2017
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About the author
Marilynn Larew
8 books66 followersMARILYNN LAREW is a historian who has published in such fields as American colonial and architectural history, Vietnamese military history, and terrorism, and has taught courses in each of them in the University of Maryland System.
She has lived in seven states and two foreign countries, so she has always been interested in different cultures and different places. Being the “new kid” in so many places, she has always had to adjust quickly. Reading helped her deal with that, and her library card has often been her best friend.
She has always liked to write, but the idea of writing fiction didn’t occur to her until after she finished her PhD in history. Everybody who goes through that grueling program swears to write a book revealing how awful it is. Marilynn wrote a hard-boiled detective story with a female protagonist. It almost sold, but when it didn’t, she focused on her teaching and research. Perhaps her most interesting scholarly publication is about 300BC Vietnamese military history.
It was only after she retired from teaching that she was able to return to writing fiction. The two volumes in the Lee Carruthers series are the result. Her protagonist is still female, but perhaps she is not so hard-boiled. Lee Carruthers is a CIA analyst who has a conflicted relationship with the
Agency. She is often sent where no analyst goes, and she has the scars to prove it – one from a 9 mm. bullet and three knife cuts. She keeps trying to quit, but the Agency keeps coming back like a song.
There are two more Lee Carruthers thrillers in the pipeline, and she is currently working on a third book in which the protagonist is a medium-boiled female private eye.
She writes thrillers because she likes to read them. She also likes to read Vietnamese and Chinese history and military history of all flavors.
She lives with her husband in a 200-year-old brick farmhouse on the Mason-Dixon Line in southern Pennsylvania. She belongs to the Sisters in Crime, the Guppies, and the Chinese History Military Group.
She has lived in seven states and two foreign countries, so she has always been interested in different cultures and different places. Being the “new kid” in so many places, she has always had to adjust quickly. Reading helped her deal with that, and her library card has often been her best friend.
She has always liked to write, but the idea of writing fiction didn’t occur to her until after she finished her PhD in history. Everybody who goes through that grueling program swears to write a book revealing how awful it is. Marilynn wrote a hard-boiled detective story with a female protagonist. It almost sold, but when it didn’t, she focused on her teaching and research. Perhaps her most interesting scholarly publication is about 300BC Vietnamese military history.
It was only after she retired from teaching that she was able to return to writing fiction. The two volumes in the Lee Carruthers series are the result. Her protagonist is still female, but perhaps she is not so hard-boiled. Lee Carruthers is a CIA analyst who has a conflicted relationship with the
Agency. She is often sent where no analyst goes, and she has the scars to prove it – one from a 9 mm. bullet and three knife cuts. She keeps trying to quit, but the Agency keeps coming back like a song.
There are two more Lee Carruthers thrillers in the pipeline, and she is currently working on a third book in which the protagonist is a medium-boiled female private eye.
She writes thrillers because she likes to read them. She also likes to read Vietnamese and Chinese history and military history of all flavors.
She lives with her husband in a 200-year-old brick farmhouse on the Mason-Dixon Line in southern Pennsylvania. She belongs to the Sisters in Crime, the Guppies, and the Chinese History Military Group.
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January 5, 2018
If readers were expecting this newest book by Marilyn Larew to be a third Lee Carruther’s suspense novel, they might be disappointed at first to discover a new protagonist: Baltimore PI Ann Charter. What they won’t be disappointed in is Larew’s sense of humor, her ability to twist a mystery, and leaving the readers wanting more of Ann Charter. Is there a sequel in the works? Past fans and new will be looking for one on the market soon. --Review can be found in Le Coueur de l'Artiste
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March 19, 2017
Thoroughly enjoyable detective story that takes the reader from Baltimore to SE Asia in search of a missing husband. We are treated to PI Anne Carter’s acerbic wit and a writing style that is strong and honors the genre. Readers of mystery/detective fiction will not be disappointed.
August 14, 2017
I couldn't get into the story even though the blurb peeked my attention. I didn't find the main character likable enough to want to know her story. I found myself turning back to previously read passages to make it make sense with fail.
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