Southern Fraud Mysteries, Box Set

Southern Fraud Thriller #1-3

by J.W. Becton

Moral Hazard (Southern Fraud Mystery 4) Seven years ago, Julia Jackson made a desperate decision. Now it's coming back to haunt her.... Now that Julia Jackson has completed her quest to identify and bring charges against her sister’s rapist, everything finally seems to be going her way. All she has to do is await his trial and sentencing, and she has a new fraud case and a burgeoning relationship with Mark Vincent to occupy her time. As usual, her simple fraud case turns out to be much more complicated—and dangerous—than anyone anticipated. That’s nothing she hasn’t dealt with before. But when an anomaly is discovered in the DNA evidence needed to convict the rapist, Julia’s past mistakes may come to light, and she is thrown into a moral dilemma that will define who she is as an investigator and as a person. Shock Loss (Southern Fraud Mystery 5) Moving forward is hard, especially when someone wants you dead…. Julia Jackson just can’t get her life together. After finally succeeding in her quest to bring her sister’s rapist to justice, all Julia’s secrets, including the evidence theft that made it all possible, came to light. She lost her job as an investigator with the Georgia Department of Insurance and her law enforcement officer certification. Worse, many of her previous arrests are now in question, and guilty fraudsters are going free. When a string of deadly tornadoes rips across the state and someone close to Julia winds up dead, she and her former DOI partner Mark Vincent must team up with Tripp Carver and Helena St. John to solve the murder, find a crucial piece of evidence, and keep themselves alive in the process. Meanwhile, Julia and Vincent decide to move forward with their tentative romance. But they soon find that moving on is hard, especially when someone wants them dead. Sunset Clause (Southern Fraud Mystery 6) All things must come to an end, but will Julia and Vincent survive the final showdown? With Mark Vincent under investigation for a murder he didn’t commit and Mercer, Georgia, embroiled in a government corruption scandal, Julia Jackson decides it’s time to end the nightmare. But when the US Attorney’s office takes over their investigation, Julia and Vincent are forced off the case. Sidelined from helping clear Vincent’s name and ending the rampant public corruption in Mercer, Julia and Vincent must find another way to root out the truth. As their new side investigation heats up, Julia and Vincent’s adversaries start working overtime to hide the truth…by any means necessary. The six-book Southern Fraud Mystery series blends gripping suspense with humor and a slow-burn romance.

849 pages, Kindle Edition

First published April 12, 2013

About the author

Also writes as Jennifer Becton

Reviews

[Kelli Mitchell-stack · Rating 5 out of 5]

BAwesome reads!

so glad I got theorized set! I have enjoyed this series much more than I had hoped I would. the character's are likable and believable even if some of the actions aren't! it's a romance but not overly romantic and so far in these 3 books the was no actual sexual explicitness which I personally enjoyed. I am not one for needing to read a blow by blow detail of someone's sexual encounter.
so these were light reading, easy, enjoyable and humorous. read them,you'll like them!

[Susan · Rating 4 out of 5]

[This review is for book 6; the other two are reviewed separately.]

An excellent conclusion to the series, with everything from the romance to the series-long suspense plot was resolved. I'm not thrilled with the person who was pulling so many strings; that seemed a bit anti-climatic. But the rest was satisfying, and I highly recommend the entire series.

I do hope the spin-off series featuring Tripp comes to fruition.