Thursday, January 23, 2014

CIRCLE OF INFLUENCE by Annette Dashofy (A Zoe Chambers Mystery)

Description


Zoe Chambers, paramedic and deputy coroner in rural Pennsylvania’s tight-knit Vance Township, has been privy to a number of local secrets over the years, some of them her own. But secrets become explosive when a dead body is found in the Township Board President’s abandoned car. As a January blizzard rages, Zoe and Police Chief Pete Adams launch a desperate search for the killer, even if it means uncovering secrets that could not only destroy Zoe and Pete, but also those closest to them.

Books in the Zoe Chambers Mystery Series:

CIRCLE OF INFLUENCE #1

LOST LEGACY #2 (on sale Fall 2014)

My Review:CIRCLE OF INFLUENCE by Annette Dashofy

4 STARS

I like Zoe Chambers. This had pretty good suspense. I guessed right on small parts and missed the big pictures by far. Boy was there plenty of drama. Plenty of suspects. Clean read. Plenty of secrets.

Zoe Chambers is a paramedic in a small township. She rents have a house and takes care of the barn so she can keep her horse. Zoe was a party girl in high school and that still impacts her life today.

A old boyfriend of hers married her best friend. Now he is murdered. She does not believe some of the rumors she is hearing about him. His wife is still her good friend. She is also close to his two teenagers.

Because it is a small township the county is taken over the murder case. The local Police Chief Pete does not like that. Pete likes to flirt with Zoe. His secretary has been arrested for stealing a computer.

It being a small town a lot of things cross with one another.

I like Pete and Zoe and want them to start dating. They are keeping secrets from each other.

The setting is Monongahela County, Pennsylvania. Lots of farm land.

I did not want to put the book down until I had finished reading it. I want to read the next book in the series Lost Legacy and see how everyone is and what happens next for the town.

I was given this ebook to read and in exchange asked to give a honest review of it by Netgalley and Henery Press.
publication: March 25th 2014 by Henery Press 294 pages ISBN 9781940976006

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Annette Dashofy, a Pennsylvania farm gal born and bred, grew up with horses, cattle, and, yes, chickens. After high school, she spent five years as an EMT for the local ambulance service. Since then, she’s worked a variety of jobs, giving her plenty of fodder for her lifelong passion for writing. She, her husband, and their two spoiled cats live on property that was once part of her grandfather’s dairy. Her short fiction, including a 2007 Derringer nominee, has appeared in Spinetingler, Mysterical-e, and Fish Tales: the Guppy Anthology. Her newest short story will appear in the Lucky Charms Anthology (December 2013).



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