Career weary college professors, Trace and Whitney Carson, accept a routine, forensic accounting engagement from a former student, but make a great mistake. They actually find the embezzlement, and... More > that's when people begin to die. Try as they might, the couple cannot extract themselves from the nightmare as the malice of the hidden embezzler targets their two sons. When their family is threatened, the mild mannered professors shed their personae and bend all their considerable talents to finding and destroying the mind behind the murders. The chase becomes international as they find the bulk of the embezzled money stashed in an off shore bank. But just when they think they have the conspiracy in hand, everything comes full circle and they are forced to face the final foe in their very own back yard.< Less
In this continuation of the Carson Family detective series, Kit and Jace go under cover in a junk yard to try to prove that the owner is skimming vast sums which prevents his wife from reaping her... More > fair share of the business during their very nasty divorce. Not only do they get a lesson in what it means to truly be dirty, they find the junk yard owner much dirtier than the grease in the cars could possibly create. Suddenly, what seemed like a couple of hundred thousand in graft has become several million and the danger from the dogs guarding the junk yard is nothing compared to the threat from their human masters. Whitney and Trace move to pull their sons out of the assignment when people begin to die, but the only way to tame the beasts is to pull their fangs. That means finding the money and eliminating the threat at its source.< Less
"They have sown the wind, and they shall reap the Whirlwind." Whitney discovers that her mother, aunts, uncles and cousins did indeed sow the wind 50 years ago. The great family mystery... More > explodes on the scene as the Carson family comes face to face with evil. This fast moving tale set in the remote Blue Ridge mountains explodes with the very public murder of a septuagenarian serial killer who was standing beside his own fifty year old, empty grave. The murder threatens the very culture of these reclusive and clannish people. As the whirlwind emerges from the earth, killers from both generations move to protect their guilty secrets. The Carsons must solve the fifty year old murder in order to solve the current murder. Whitney, the educated and aloof ex-patriot scion of the hills, is forced to rip the secret from her own mother's heart to protect her children.< Less
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