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Dr. Catherine "Cat" Powers #3
Dying Declaration
Dr. Catherine "Cat" Powers is FBI Forensic pathologist and special agent with an uncanny sixth sense for bringing murders to justice.
During a vacation in Belize with her young son, Joey, Cat gets a phone call from her boss. Young prostitutes are being picked up, murdered and left for dead in the Florida Everglades. The first victim does not fit the killer’s modus operandi. She was a legal secretary working for the Fort Lauderdale based international law firm, Black and Knight.
As Cat investigates this and other deaths, they lead back to the firm's henchmen and to its partners. With the help of another firm employee, Cat discovers a secret web of murder, illicit drugs, prostitution, sex trafficking, corruption and more. The firm’s partners intend to kill anyone who can lead the law back to them, including Cat.
As the body count grows, powerful people will make decisions that will change lives. Decisions that will destroy families. As Cat uncovers the conspiracy, only one partner, the mastermind, will become Cat’s ally. She will walk away, after seeing that the others are brought to justice.
During a vacation in Belize with her young son, Joey, Cat gets a phone call from her boss. Young prostitutes are being picked up, murdered and left for dead in the Florida Everglades. The first victim does not fit the killer’s modus operandi. She was a legal secretary working for the Fort Lauderdale based international law firm, Black and Knight.
As Cat investigates this and other deaths, they lead back to the firm's henchmen and to its partners. With the help of another firm employee, Cat discovers a secret web of murder, illicit drugs, prostitution, sex trafficking, corruption and more. The firm’s partners intend to kill anyone who can lead the law back to them, including Cat.
As the body count grows, powerful people will make decisions that will change lives. Decisions that will destroy families. As Cat uncovers the conspiracy, only one partner, the mastermind, will become Cat’s ally. She will walk away, after seeing that the others are brought to justice.
249 pages, Kindle Edition
Published November 30, 2019
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About the author
Solange Ritchie
4 books44 followersWhen attorney and new author Solange Ritchie isn’t practicing law, you can usually find her penning her next legal thriller. Solange’s first psychological thriller, The Burning Man, featuring FBI forensic pathologist, Dr. Catherine (“Cat”) Powers will hit book stores on September 15, 2015. Published by Morgan James Publishing, The Burning Man promises to have you on the edge of your seat from the first page.
Born in the beautiful tropical island of Jamaica of a Jamaican father and a French mother, Solange immigrated to the US at age 11. Since then, she has been a dynamic force for change. Fed up with thrillers that start with a fizzle and longing to see more power women as lead characters, Solange decided to create her own characters. Despite the demands of a busy legal career, she accomplished her ambitious goal by rising each morning to write before work, dedicating her weekends to writing and even spending her vacation time writing.
Words have always been Solange’s passion. Now so, more than ever.
Born in the beautiful tropical island of Jamaica of a Jamaican father and a French mother, Solange immigrated to the US at age 11. Since then, she has been a dynamic force for change. Fed up with thrillers that start with a fizzle and longing to see more power women as lead characters, Solange decided to create her own characters. Despite the demands of a busy legal career, she accomplished her ambitious goal by rising each morning to write before work, dedicating her weekends to writing and even spending her vacation time writing.
Words have always been Solange’s passion. Now so, more than ever.
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May 13, 2023
Dollycas’s Thoughts
FBI Agent and Forensic Pathologist Dr. Catherine “Cat” Powers has a special skill set that helps her get justice for murder victims so when bodies start piling up in the Florida Everglades she is the agent sent to catch the killer. The first victim was a legal secretary at Black and Knight, an international law firm. The other victims are young prostitutes. Cat investigates all the deaths but all clues and evidence seem to lead back to that law firm.
Cat delves in and gets an employee of the law firm to help her and uncovers a vast conspiracy that not only includes murder, but drugs, prostitution, sex trafficking, money laundering, and more putting her own life in danger. Can she survive to get justice for all the lives lost? or will she be the next victim?
Solange Ritchie packs a lot into the 248 pages. She gives a graphic account of what the victims went through and allows readers to travel along step by step with Cat as she follows each clue wherever it leads.
Dr. Catherine “Cat” Powers has two sides. The soft side she shows with her son and the tough-as-nails side that comes out when she is on a case. She is intelligent and is said to have a sixth sense. She is strong, well-trained, and thinks on her feet all traits necessary when cornered. She gets assistance from her boss, the regional head of the FBI, Nate Connors. There is some definite romantic tension between them but is a relationship a good idea when lives including their own are on the line? As it was the “good guys” made some mistakes and my heart broke reading the aftermath.
This story had so many layers and so many twists. The criminal characters, the “bad guys”, were complex and were not what they seemed. Who was the mastermind? Who were the lackeys? Who was the muscle? All were psychopaths with no redeeming qualities whatsoever.
Dying Declaration is a gritty story with some truly scary characters. Some portions were hard to read but the book was almost impossible to put down. I think it would make an excellent movie but I may watch parts through my fingers.
This is the author’s 3rd book featuring Dr. Catherine “Cat” Powers, but the first one I have read and it read well all on its own. I found Cat very interesting and would like to read more stories featuring her. The question is do I go back and read previous stories or forge ahead to book 4, Bomb Blast?
FBI Agent and Forensic Pathologist Dr. Catherine “Cat” Powers has a special skill set that helps her get justice for murder victims so when bodies start piling up in the Florida Everglades she is the agent sent to catch the killer. The first victim was a legal secretary at Black and Knight, an international law firm. The other victims are young prostitutes. Cat investigates all the deaths but all clues and evidence seem to lead back to that law firm.
Cat delves in and gets an employee of the law firm to help her and uncovers a vast conspiracy that not only includes murder, but drugs, prostitution, sex trafficking, money laundering, and more putting her own life in danger. Can she survive to get justice for all the lives lost? or will she be the next victim?
Solange Ritchie packs a lot into the 248 pages. She gives a graphic account of what the victims went through and allows readers to travel along step by step with Cat as she follows each clue wherever it leads.
Dr. Catherine “Cat” Powers has two sides. The soft side she shows with her son and the tough-as-nails side that comes out when she is on a case. She is intelligent and is said to have a sixth sense. She is strong, well-trained, and thinks on her feet all traits necessary when cornered. She gets assistance from her boss, the regional head of the FBI, Nate Connors. There is some definite romantic tension between them but is a relationship a good idea when lives including their own are on the line? As it was the “good guys” made some mistakes and my heart broke reading the aftermath.
This story had so many layers and so many twists. The criminal characters, the “bad guys”, were complex and were not what they seemed. Who was the mastermind? Who were the lackeys? Who was the muscle? All were psychopaths with no redeeming qualities whatsoever.
Dying Declaration is a gritty story with some truly scary characters. Some portions were hard to read but the book was almost impossible to put down. I think it would make an excellent movie but I may watch parts through my fingers.
This is the author’s 3rd book featuring Dr. Catherine “Cat” Powers, but the first one I have read and it read well all on its own. I found Cat very interesting and would like to read more stories featuring her. The question is do I go back and read previous stories or forge ahead to book 4, Bomb Blast?
May 14, 2023
Dying Declaration is the third book in the Dr. Catherine "Cat" Powers series and although it can be read as a standalone, I want to go back and read the first two books as there is some charcter development and backstory that I have missed. Cat is an FBI agent, as well as a forensic pathologist/coroner. She gets called in for the worst, most difficult cases and this is definitely that. There is a serial killer who had killed and dumped at least 4 bodies along alligator alley in Florida. Cat is an amazing investigator as well and manages to pull out threads that lead her to a legal firm where the first victim worked. Is that a coincidence? The reader knows who the killer is, as there is also a storyline of human trafficking that ties into the murders. Will they get to the bottom of this case before anyone else is killed?
Wow, this was quite a story. It was not necessarily an easy read. There are a lot of women raped and murdered which is a bit grizzly, although the descriptions are not as graphic as some that I have read. The murderer is a sick, sadistic man who I wanted to be caught more than others killers I have read about. Cat is a wonderful character. She has many talents and uses them to fight for victims. How she teases out clues to follow that others miss and her dogged determination make her a great agent, but also puts her in danger. She is also a mom and has to leave her young son behind when she travels for these cases. I found that sad as there is information in the book that his father was killed in the first story in the series. We see them together briefly and he seems to have reconciled himself with his mother's job. Cat works with Nate, her boss at the FBI, and there seems to be some chemistry there. Later in the story, they admit they feel something for each other and I will see how that progresses in the next book. This book kept me flipping the pages to find out what was going on and to see if Tiny gets caught or killed. If you follow the clues, you will be able to figure some things out, but there were still some surprises for me. This is a relatively short book at 248 pages, so it ws easy to read it in one sitting, which I did as I was invested in the story and wanted to make sure Cat was safe and solved this crime. If you enjoy a strong female law enforcement agent, one that is smart and fights for justice, then you will love Cat Powers.
Wow, this was quite a story. It was not necessarily an easy read. There are a lot of women raped and murdered which is a bit grizzly, although the descriptions are not as graphic as some that I have read. The murderer is a sick, sadistic man who I wanted to be caught more than others killers I have read about. Cat is a wonderful character. She has many talents and uses them to fight for victims. How she teases out clues to follow that others miss and her dogged determination make her a great agent, but also puts her in danger. She is also a mom and has to leave her young son behind when she travels for these cases. I found that sad as there is information in the book that his father was killed in the first story in the series. We see them together briefly and he seems to have reconciled himself with his mother's job. Cat works with Nate, her boss at the FBI, and there seems to be some chemistry there. Later in the story, they admit they feel something for each other and I will see how that progresses in the next book. This book kept me flipping the pages to find out what was going on and to see if Tiny gets caught or killed. If you follow the clues, you will be able to figure some things out, but there were still some surprises for me. This is a relatively short book at 248 pages, so it ws easy to read it in one sitting, which I did as I was invested in the story and wanted to make sure Cat was safe and solved this crime. If you enjoy a strong female law enforcement agent, one that is smart and fights for justice, then you will love Cat Powers.
March 14, 2023
Five. Stars for sure. What a great legal thriller/murder mystery, & an easy read with lots of fun twists.
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