Bøker av Leeanne James

In the late 1800's, the English countryside is rife with secret scandal, and nobody knows that better than Amelia. She had only recently made her debut into society when she began to court Sir Herbert Woodford, Duke of Brazelton. She thought she'd found the love of her life, but the duke turns out to have a hidden and abusive dark side.Woodford is well known throughout the land as being a mean and miserable man with a hair-trigger temper, fueled by excessive alcohol consumption. When he is found murdered in his own home, hit over the head with a brass bookend, the list of suspects is endless. It turns out, Amelia was not the only person Woodford was pushing around.The duke is not mourned. Because he often lashed out at those around him, he'd managed to alienate almost everyone he knew, both friends and family alike. Still, a killer must be caught. The investigation appears to have gone cold - until Senior Inspector Patrick Duffy realizes they had overlooked one detail that could lead right to the murderer.

"An enthralling look at murder and the ensuing police investigation, The Dusty Road to Homicide is written with a gripping authenticity, possible only from someone on the inside of law enforcement. Impossible to set aside!" -Chris Amato, author of Peace River VillageDusty Sampson's parents split up when he was four years old. Dusty's mother tries to provide as much love and guidance as she can, but at the same time, she has to work long hours just to pay the bills and put a roof over their head.Left to his own devices, Dusty eventually gets into drugs and alcohol. When his mother has had enough, he finds himself kicked out of her house, and forced to float from couch to couch. Consistently unemployed and out of money, Dusty decides to rob a restaurant for some quick cash but shoots two people in cold blood on the way out.Sergeant Steve "Mac" MacIntosh and his team of investigators follow the trail that they hope will lead to the killer. But they soon realize that time is of the essence when they read the killer's Facebook messages and discover that he has plans to rob another restaurant the next night.This is the second book in The Thin Blue Line Series, but can be read as a stand-alone novel.