Empty Promises
by James M. Jackson
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GENRE: Mystery/Suspense/Domestic Thriller
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BLURB:
If
you love the suspense and plot twists of domestic thrillers, this page-turner
will be for you. Seamus McCree’s first solo bodyguard assignment goes from bad
to worse. His client disappears. His granddog finds a buried human bone. Police
find a fresh human body.
His client is to testify in a Chicago money laundering trial. He’s paranoid that with a price on his head, if the police know where he’s staying, the information will leak. Seamus promised his business partner and lover, Abigail Hancock, that he’d keep the witness safe at the McCree family camp located deep in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan’s woods.
Abigail is furious at his incompetence and their relationship flounders. Even his often-helpful son, Paddy, must put family safety ahead of helping his father. Seamus risks his own safety and freedom to turn amateur sleuth in hopes he can solve the crimes, fulfill his promise of protection, and win back Abigail. Wit and grit are on his side, but the clock is ticking . . . and the hit man is on his way.
His client is to testify in a Chicago money laundering trial. He’s paranoid that with a price on his head, if the police know where he’s staying, the information will leak. Seamus promised his business partner and lover, Abigail Hancock, that he’d keep the witness safe at the McCree family camp located deep in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan’s woods.
Abigail is furious at his incompetence and their relationship flounders. Even his often-helpful son, Paddy, must put family safety ahead of helping his father. Seamus risks his own safety and freedom to turn amateur sleuth in hopes he can solve the crimes, fulfill his promise of protection, and win back Abigail. Wit and grit are on his side, but the clock is ticking . . . and the hit man is on his way.
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EXCERPT:
Dread joined us in the car. Even normally bubbly Megan grew
silent.
Loggers had cut a narrow lane through the sixty-foot spruce
I had watched come down at the beginning of the Grade, leaving most of the tree
in place and towing the cut section to the side. They’d wasted no time on
smaller branches littering the road and were opening up a one-lane path. I
tiptoed the Outback over the debris and moved through the gap.
At first the downed trees were scattered, although limbs and
branches dotted the entire road. But the further north we drove, the worse the
damage became until the downed trees were a nearly continuous hazard. Paddy
frequently left the car to remove branches with sharp breaks that might
puncture a tire. I was regretting we hadn’t taken my old beater truck into town
with its multi-ply tires. The Outback carried a donut spare, which wouldn’t
last thirty seconds on the gravel roads. We had yet to see any other cars or
people.
By the time we passed the five- and six-mile markers without
any letup in the damage, tightened metal bands had taken up permanent residence
around my chest. I feared for Elliot. I feared for my property. I worried
whether I’d get a flat. Whether there would still be a hotel room if I had to
send Paddy and Megan to Tall Pines. Megan, on the other hand, had given up her concerns
and was in the back seat, singing along with a CD, a cheerful canary amidst the
devastation.
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My Review
Empty Promises is the fifth installment from James M Jackson’s Seamus McCree series. I have not read any other books in the series, so I was not sure what to expect when I pick this one up. I thought it was a pretty good suspense filled mystery. I did not want to put it down. And I did not until I finished the whole book. It is not good. I hope to soon find the previous books from the series and see what had happened prior to this one.
I give Empty Promises four stars.
I received this book from the publisher. This review is 100% my own honest opinion
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ReplyDeleteI enjoyed getting to know your book; congrats on the tour, I hope it is a fun one for you, and thanks for the chance to win :)
ReplyDeleteAnother lovely review. I will read a book right through one day, non-stop. Might have to wait until I retire though. Kay S.
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