Life, Love and Books

Crisis Shot by Janice Cantore This the newest novel from Janice Cantore, a retired Long Beach Police officer now an amazing supsense writer. Her works include the Pacific Coast Justice and Cold  Case Justice series. She now brings us a new series called Line of Duty. In the first book, Crisis Shot we meet Tess O'Rourke a commander of the East Division in Long Beach, California. Her dream of becoming the first female chief of police, turns into a nightmare when she fatally shoots an unarmed teenager. Backed by her fellow officers Tess endures a barrage of media and the public calling for her head on a platter. The only thing she can do is to find a job in the middle of no-where and restart her life. When she finds an opening for a small town police chief, Tess jumps at the chance to start over in a new town. But winning over the residents of the small, backwater town of Rogue's Hollow, is going to be more difficult than Tess adjusting to her new role. Her first ma...

Drawing Fire by Janice Cantore As a homicide detective Abigail Hart worked hard to help others solve homicides and bring closure to their tragedies When she is called out to a possible serial killer case, her best lead ends up being a Private investigator named Luke Murphy. When the latest victim turns out to be the relative of the governor, things seem to be working out for her on a cold case of her own. As the daughter of a former restaurant owners that was killed in a very deadly fire, Abby was placed into the foster system and hidden away for her safety. Now as an adult it seems she might be able to find some closure of her own, When the chance is offered for Abby and Luke to meet the governor on his terms, it seems like they both are going to get the chance to ask the burning questions. Instead the meeting leaves both of them with more questions then ever, after Abby reveals herself to the governor as  the daughter of his deceased friends. With everyone telling her t...