Banker Rhetta McCarter’s ongoing battles usually involve mortgage loans, federal lending regulations, threats of bulges on her butt, and her closet-drinking husband. But after one of her mortgage clients dies in a mysterious car accident, she stumbles upon evidence of a terrorist plot to wipe out the entire Midwest power grid. No one believes her—not the FBI, local law enforcement, or her husband. Rhetta convinces her assistant, and loan officer, Woody, a former Marine, to help her stop the attack. Problems mount and time begins running out, leaving Rhetta alone to stop the bad guys. Can she do it? Praise for Killerwatt: “Oh, I love Rhetta McCarter! She's hilarious, smart, savvy, tenacious, loving—and just the teensiest bit stubborn. (Good thing, or her hometown would be in serious trouble.) “Killerwatt” is a high-voltage, high-speed adventure—with humor, heart, and a frighteningly realistic story!” Hank Phillippi Ryan, Anthony, Macavity and Agatha-winning author “Feisty amateur sleuth Rhetta McCarter takes us along on a thrilling ride in her '79 Camaro as she tries to stop a terrorist plot that could mean lights out for the country...and for Rhetta! An exciting, fast-paced thriller from a promising debut author.” Sharon Potts, award-winning author of In Their Blood and Someone's Watching

Killerwatt

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Hopkins, Sharon Woods

Mystery

Deadly Writes Publishing, LLC

When Rhetta McCarter's '79 Camaro is destroyed in a fire, her best friend and mechanic Victoria (Ricky) Lane, finds a replacement, a "barnfind" vintage Camaro in perfect condition, except for one major flaw: a body buried beneath it. Later, Ricky is arrested when a second victim is found murdered in the same barn. Rhetta is convinced not only that Ricky is innocent, but that the two murders are connected. The police don’t agree, so Rhetta is forced to fight her way through a labyrinth of danger and misdirection to find the real murderer before the killer finds her first.

Killerfind

Judge Rosswell Carew’s fiancée is still missing. Because her last call to him came from a payphone in Sainte Genevieve, Carew arranges to hold court there so he can pursue his search for her. When he witnesses someone who resembles Tina tossed from a riverboat ferry, he's plunged into a nightmare world he never knew existed. Rosswell is astounded when he discovers that what he saw and the fate of Tina are intertwined. Unable to convince the local authorities that something deadly is going on, Rosswell teams up with his faithful research assistant Ollie Groton to discover the truth. The excitement never lets up until the last page.

River Mourn (Judge Rosswell Carew Mystery Series)

Business & Money

Hopkins, Bill

Management & Leadership

While driving home from work, banker Rhetta McCarter’s quiet evening is shattered when she witnesses a fatal hit-and-run accident. Her world is soon turned upside-down when she learns the dead man, a total stranger has no identification, except her business card. Then Rhetta’s long estranged and presumed dead father leaves her a voice mail telling her that he can prove the victim was murdered. He also tells her he and the victim served together in Vietnam. But how can the caller be her father when she has his death certificate? The unknown victim is soon identified—as a soldier who died on the same day as her father in 1973! Rhetta is thrown full throttle into a deadly mystery surrounding her father and a secret trust that has already claimed three lives. Will she be the fourth?

Killertrust

Someone is targeting Toledo's single women when they turn forty, tucking them into bed and turning birthday greetings into obituaries. Newly-assigned Toledo Homicide Detective Veronica Jadzinski vows to prevent the body count from increasing and to prove her transfer from Narcotics wasn't a fluke-departmental regulations, disparaging lieutenants, and a rigid new partner be damned. Jadz learns to trust a new partner while balancing the unwanted attentions of an almost-ex-husband, a needy widowed mother, and a drama queen sister as the detectives fight to unravel the bizarre murders. When the killer targets Jadz's sister, things get personal. Jadz must heal an old family rift to stop the murders and protect those who really matter.

Forty & Out

Pauwels, C. L.

Courting Murder (Judge Rosswell Carew Mysteries)

The mystique of the river life has often been romanticized but rarely scrutinized. The brotherhood of mariners who live and work the waterways of the Heartland is made up of a rare breed that usually keeps to itself. Towboat Joe has broken the golden rule of "what happens on the boat, stays on the boat," by inviting us to set sail on an unprecedented voyage. Captain Joe Kent shares his stories about hardened river men made of steel with hearts of gold who have too much time on their hands, and not enough fear in their hearts. As each story unfolds, it proves they never know what might be waiting around the next bend to rock the boat. It's not always blue skies and fair tides, but a "calm sea never a skilled sailor made." Some stories are exciting, some are hilarious and all are entertaining. Grab a tall drink and a comfortable chair, and sail with Towboat Joe.

Towboat Joe: Stories and Songs of River Rats, Throttle Jockeys, Ditch Diggers, and Various Other Towboat Trash

Literature & Fiction

Kent, Capt. Joe

Short Stories & Anthologies

Killerground

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