Guilty Knowledge
by Linda Griffin
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GENRE: Mystery/Romantic Suspense
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BLURB:
He's a witness. She may be lying. And he's falling in love with her.
Detectives Jesse Aaron and Camille Farris have no leads in the murder of Rosa Logan when pretty blonde Sariah Brennan claims to have seen the killer—in a vision. Unfortunately the man she identifies is dead—or is he?
Sariah is an unsophisticated small town girl, but her background and her motives are mysterious. Jesse is increasingly convinced that she has guilty knowledge of the crime, even as he finds himself more and more attracted to her. Can he and Camille unravel the web of secrets before the killer strikes again?
Detectives Jesse Aaron and Camille Farris have no leads in the murder of Rosa Logan when pretty blonde Sariah Brennan claims to have seen the killer—in a vision. Unfortunately the man she identifies is dead—or is he?
Sariah is an unsophisticated small town girl, but her background and her motives are mysterious. Jesse is increasingly convinced that she has guilty knowledge of the crime, even as he finds himself more and more attracted to her. Can he and Camille unravel the web of secrets before the killer strikes again?
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Excerpt:
“Aaron!” The voice was unmistakable: Camille.
“Shit.” He let go of Sariah. She put a finger to her lips, grabbed her sweater and camisole, and stood up. He thought she might be amused—at least she didn’t appear to be angry. “Give me a minute,” he said. She went into the bedroom and closed the door. Jesse straightened his clothes, switched off the stereo, and went to let Camille in. “What’s up?” he asked.
She didn’t wait on formalities; she barged right in. “I knew you would want to see this,” she said as she handed him a folder. It contained a fax cover sheet and two documents: a high school transcript in the name of Rosanna Milne and a police report headed with the same name. He didn’t have to read the report to get the gist—attached to it was a photograph of a young woman with a black eye and a split lip. She looked about eighteen, but she bore an uncanny resemblance to Rosa Logan. He turned back to the cover sheet—it was from the Lyon County, Nevada Sheriff’s Office. It was the first lead to the real identity of their murder victim. He started to read the police report, a four-year-old assault complaint, but Camille interrupted. “Seriously?” she said. “You’ve got to be kidding me!”
“What?” He looked up at her. She was standing in the middle of the living room with her arms folded. She gave him a very dirty look, and then he realized what she had seen—Sariah’s purse was on the coffee table.
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My review: A woman stopped by Detective Jesse Aaron’s office with info about a
crime—a murder she saw….in a vision. Although warned to keep her “gift” a
secret, she had to speak up because the killer would kill again. Of course,
Jesse couldn’t say whether he believed her or not, but he knew she was hiding
more than she was letting on. The strange woman identified the suspect, but the
problem was that he was dead almost 3 years. Or was he?
The detective wanted to believe Sariah, so he checks her out—he
credibility, her history, and so on. After all, “it takes a liar to know a
liar.” He believed that she had “guilty knowledge.” Was she at the scene? Or
did she have contact with the killer?
This was an interesting case that had a bizarre revelation. I was
intrigued in the beginning, but then it kind of tapers off toward the end with
its consistent lag and overfill on scene layout. Grand theft auto, child
pornography, and a killer on the loose—all open cases that you find in this
book. Although it wasn’t quite what I was expecting, it’s still a decent read.
My rating: 3 stars
AUTHOR Bio and Links:
I was born and raised in San Diego, California and earned a BA in English from San Diego State University and an MLS from UCLA. I began my career as a reference and collection development librarian in the Art and Music Section of the San Diego Public Library and then transferred to the Literature and Languages Section, where I had the pleasure of managing the Central Library’s Fiction collection. Although I also enjoy reading biography, memoir, and history, fiction remains my first love. In addition to the three R’s—reading, writing, and research—I enjoy Scrabble, movies, and travel.
My earliest ambition was to be a “book maker” and I wrote my first story, “Judy and the Fairies,” with a plot stolen from a comic book, at the age of six. I broke into print in college with a story in the San Diego State University literary journal, The Phoenix, but most of my magazine publications came after I left the library to spend more time on my writing
My stories, in every length from short shorts to novellas, have been published in numerous journals, including Eclectica, The Binnacle, The Nassau Review, Orbis, and Thema Literary Journal. Guilty Knowledge is my third novel from The Wild Rose Press. Seventeen Days was published in 2018 and The Rebound Effect in 2019.
Links:
Website: http://www.lindagriffinauthor.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/LindaGriffinA
Indiebooks: https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781509230457
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ReplyDeleteHi, Bernie. I did have a few thoughts about another case for Jesse and Camille, and would love to see them in a TV series, but for now I think they are done with me. My next book will probably be a romance between a female police officer and a man who loves to cook--and there is a murder.
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