The Man in the Fire - eBook

🔥Overworked. Underpaid. That's Joe's life.🔥

The victim was bound and murdered. The killer walked away without a trace.

Halloween is a night to step outside your comfort zone, visit your neighbors, and hand out candy to costumed children. It should have been a holiday, a break from the tensions and stress of the day. Instead, it ends in horror when a community leader is found murdered—his body left inside the smoldering ruins of a religious center.

With a gutted police force and political vultures circling, Joe races to unearth the truth while battling a surge of arsons, a tangled web of prejudice and resentment, and a killer who’s disturbingly comfortable with violence.

As the investigation unfolds, Joe’s isolated existence begins to fracture. The case is personal. The threats are mounting. And the deeper she digs, the more dangerous the ground beneath her becomes.

Smart, gritty, and unflinchingly human, this is Joe Court at her most vulnerable—and most relentless.

WHAT’S THE JOE COURT SERIES ABOUT?

Joe Court is a young detective in fictional tourist town and county of St Augustine, Missouri. The streets are well-swept, the surroundings are gorgeous, and the people are friendly—except for the murderers, of course.

Beneath its beautiful exterior, St. Augustine is a county built on poison and lies. Its murder rate is astronomical, its government is corrupt, and drug use is out of control.
Joe’s there to clean the place up. It’s not going to be easy, but she’s exactly the right person or the job.

The books are gripping, gritty murder mysteries. In each book, Joe Court investigates a crime—usually a murder, but not always—and takes that crime to a thrilling conclusion. I don’t like cliffhangers. The main story is resolved in each book. You’re going to find out what happened to the bad guys in each story. That said, there are side stories that continue from one book to another. A rumor in one book might turn out to be a far bigger deal than anyone anticipated in later books. Because of that, it’s best to read the story in order.

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