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Lust & Distrust: A Larissa Carpenter Mystery #2
Betrayed and framed for murder, can Det. Angela Murdoch’s friends save her?FBI Special Agent Hoffner is back in Coventry Beach, with a new partner to shut down the sex trafficking operation being run out of the small beachside town.The new head of the local FBI office is being blackmailed by one of Larissa’s former in-laws. What does she want?Still a person of interest in Natalie Kramer’s murder, Larissa is sure she’s being followed. Is it the FBI? Local Police? Or someone else?A sting operation leads to Det. Murdoch getting shot and killing a suspect. Was it a good shooting or did Murdoch execute the suspect?So many questions. If you want the answers, buy Lust & Distrust today.
199 pages, Kindle Edition
Published July 22, 2021
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May 24, 2025
Lust & Distrust
A Larissa Carpenter Mystery #2
By: Darlene Duncan
Narrated by: Darlene Duncan
Gripping, with a shocker of a reveal!
Overall: 5 of 5 stars Performance: 5 of 5 stars Story: 5 of 5 stars
Reviewed: 05-24-25
Larissa Carpenter … trying to fly under the radar she goes by L.C., though being a person of interest in not one, but TWO suspicious deaths isn’t exactly flying under the radar! FBI Special Agent Amber Hoffner … her last visit to Coventry Beach ended with her killing the man who shot her... talk about tangled webs! Coventry Beach Police Detective Angela Murdoch … it falls to her to figure out the who’s and why’s but with “Lust and Distrust” running rampant … it could take a miracle or three! Brilliantly and beautifully narrated by the author, this first class police procedural grabbed my attention and held it throughout! Five fantastic stars! I really enjoyed this one!
A Larissa Carpenter Mystery #2
By: Darlene Duncan
Narrated by: Darlene Duncan
Gripping, with a shocker of a reveal!
Overall: 5 of 5 stars Performance: 5 of 5 stars Story: 5 of 5 stars
Reviewed: 05-24-25
Larissa Carpenter … trying to fly under the radar she goes by L.C., though being a person of interest in not one, but TWO suspicious deaths isn’t exactly flying under the radar! FBI Special Agent Amber Hoffner … her last visit to Coventry Beach ended with her killing the man who shot her... talk about tangled webs! Coventry Beach Police Detective Angela Murdoch … it falls to her to figure out the who’s and why’s but with “Lust and Distrust” running rampant … it could take a miracle or three! Brilliantly and beautifully narrated by the author, this first class police procedural grabbed my attention and held it throughout! Five fantastic stars! I really enjoyed this one!
November 8, 2022
Loved the narration of Darlene Duncan, you can hear and feel, the action and mystry.
Larissa hasn’t found life in the small beach town Coventry Beach, has not provide the tranquillity she expected. She goes as LC as she does not want people in town to know that she’s the Larissa Carpenter who won one of the state’s largest lottery jackpots.
LC is a person of interest in two murder cases, one of which still hasn’t been solve. Her attraction to Detective Angela Murdoch and the feeling that she’s being followed are the other disconcerting issues.
Larissa hasn’t found life in the small beach town Coventry Beach, has not provide the tranquillity she expected. She goes as LC as she does not want people in town to know that she’s the Larissa Carpenter who won one of the state’s largest lottery jackpots.
LC is a person of interest in two murder cases, one of which still hasn’t been solve. Her attraction to Detective Angela Murdoch and the feeling that she’s being followed are the other disconcerting issues.
November 21, 2022
There were surprising twists and turns in this who-done-it mystery. I enjoyed the writing. I felt the narration was slow and needed more energy.
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