No Sanctuary by F. M. Meredith

Copyright:2009

Publisher: Oak Tree Press

Genre: Mystery

Pages: 182

Challenges: The Pub Challenge

New-to-me author? yes

Author's website

Simple Description

Officer Stacey Wilbur is on patrol one night when she spots a car that had crashed into a tree. She immediately calls for assistance and checks to see if the driver is dead. Unfortunately, she is. However, there is too much blood for this to be just a traffic accident. When help arrives, they find that the woman driver had been shot. They also find out that the woman was the wife of a local minister, a very prominent minister. Stacey is asked to help the detectives with the murder investigation. There seem to be a lot of people who could have wanted the women killed, including her own husband and the wife of another minister in town. While doing this is also asked to help out in another case, one where she has to dress up like a prostitute.

Why did I read this book?

I enjoy a good mystery and this one sounded good. I noticed on the cover it says that it's a Dark oak mystery, but I can't find anywhere a listing that shows the series in order. So I'm not sure if it's the 2^nd or further along. Either way I was able to read the book without feeling like I was missing something but not having started with the first.

What I liked most:

I really liked Stacey and her parents. She is a young widow with a young child. She lives with her parents and they help take care of her son. They sound like the sweetest parents. They understand the demands of her job and don't mind taking care of their grandson whenever it's needed. How lucky is that?

Was there something I didn't like?

As I was reading it I noticed a couple of errors. I was like well, ok, the editor should have caught those because they were pretty obvious, but what can I do? Well, I was looking at the authors website and found that somebody did notify her of the errors. She notified the publishing company and got them corrected! Yeah! She is also hosting a contest to those who have copies of the book from before the errors were corrected and find the errors. To read more about it, click here. Unfortunately I'm too lazy to find the error's again, or I would join myself.

Do I recommend the book?

I do. I thought this was a good story. I really liked Stacey and hope to read more about her and her love interested (another cop).

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Happy Reading and thanks for stopping by……Kris