The Deadly Caress: An Amanda Blake thriller. (Book 1.)
The Deadly Caress: An Amanda Blake thriller. (Book 1.)
by O. N. Stefan
“Don’t miss this action-packed thriller. It set my heart pounding ‘till the very end.” (H. Howe - reviewer)
Amanda Blake, tracks down her birth mother, a rich Californian widow. They meet. Hours later, the mother is dead.
Everyone, is eyeing a huge inheritance while another murder takes place and suspicion is rife.
Amanda is determined to find her mother's killer.
Someone has sent a mysterious email to her mother. Convinced this man knows the killer, she visits him. A hail of bullets has them running for their lives.
Someone, will stop at nothing until she is dead.
If she thought things were bad enough, they are about to get much worse...
What some readers said...
“This book moves at a brisk pace from the very beginning, Amanda meeting her mother Jean for the first time after many years. The backstory surfaces rapidly, Amanda adopted out in Australia when Jean was seventeen and penniless, but now a rich widow in California able to call them back together. It is a busy plot around diverse characters eyeing a huge inheritance while a murder takes place and suspicion is rife, giving investigators a puzzle to unravel. Your prose is clearcut and to the point in both narration and dialogue, making the story easy to follow. Thank you so much for the captivating read." (Beta reader)
"Bravo for a plot that grabs the reader! The characters are intriguing and in the early chapters you've stirred up enough suggestion of internal conflict for at least Amanda, and Dorian to make readers want to go deeper into their lives and individual situations." (Beta reader)
When you reach the end, you think it's the end. However, the end is just beginning. Book 2 will be out in a few months.
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