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Wounded: A Scarlet Force Novel
Manitoba, Canada. Constable Debrah Thomas can't stop grieving. When a routine domestic dispute call ends with her partner fatally shot and the perp in cardiac arrest, the stricken RCMP officer's desperate chest compressions fail to save the gunman. And the stress only mounts when she becomes a supect in an agressive criminal probe into the shooter's death.
Major Crimes Investigator Liam Thomas is torn. Struggling to support his wife through a grueling inquiry, he's caught up in his own work on a high-profile homicide of a prominent lawyer. And as the bodies start to pile up, he fears the clues are pointing right at a serial killer.
As Debrah battles depression and nightmares, a bittersweet family surprise threatens to derail her remaining sanity. And although Liam knows she needs him now more than ever, he's consumed by a frantic search for answers...as a connection to an old case shapes into a deadly plot of revenge.
Can the embattled couple survive a world intent on ripping them apart?
Wounded is the gripping first book in the Scarlet Force crime fiction series. If you like gritty characters, dark mysteries, and edge-of-your-seat twists and turns, then you'll love this complex page-turner.
Major Crimes Investigator Liam Thomas is torn. Struggling to support his wife through a grueling inquiry, he's caught up in his own work on a high-profile homicide of a prominent lawyer. And as the bodies start to pile up, he fears the clues are pointing right at a serial killer.
As Debrah battles depression and nightmares, a bittersweet family surprise threatens to derail her remaining sanity. And although Liam knows she needs him now more than ever, he's consumed by a frantic search for answers...as a connection to an old case shapes into a deadly plot of revenge.
Can the embattled couple survive a world intent on ripping them apart?
Wounded is the gripping first book in the Scarlet Force crime fiction series. If you like gritty characters, dark mysteries, and edge-of-your-seat twists and turns, then you'll love this complex page-turner.
260 pages, Kindle Edition
Published November 16, 2016
About the author
Barbara Joyce-Hawryluk
2 books15 followersAuthor of the Scarlet Force Novels, a fictional series following RCMP Crime Drama that is based on real people and events and features lead female RCMP character.
The first book in this series 'Wounded' won the 2014 IPPY award for Canada West - Best Regional Fiction - Bronze.
Finalist:
- 2015 Bookbzz Prize Writer Competition
- Billings Public Library High Plains Book Awards - First Book
- Billings Public Library High Plains Book Awards - Woman Writer
The first book in this series 'Wounded' won the 2014 IPPY award for Canada West - Best Regional Fiction - Bronze.
Finalist:
- 2015 Bookbzz Prize Writer Competition
- Billings Public Library High Plains Book Awards - First Book
- Billings Public Library High Plains Book Awards - Woman Writer
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