Book three of The Detective Carla McBride Chronicles, Chasing Truth and Redemption, is about Penny Miracle, a beautiful, mature teenager, who disappeared without a trace in the summer of 1997. On that day, an up-and-coming rookie police officer, Carla McBride, and her mentor, Tony Picetti, were the first officers on the scene. Bernie Kowalski, who had just achieved detective status, was assigned as the lead investigator. After numerous interviews, tips, and dead-end leads, the case fell stone cold. It laid dormant until the police's forensic psychologist Beth Pendergast, Penny's childhood friend, was assigned the case.
Beth is thrust into action with Detectives Carla McBride and Bernie Kowalski in hopes of solving Penny's disappearance that has haunted each of them for the past fifteen years. Their paths had never crossed since that fateful day, and now, as they seek truth and redemption, their lives will never be the same. Chasing Truth and Redemption, the third novel in The Detective Carla McBride Chronicles, is an intriguing and spell-bounding mystery with an ending you will not expect.
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When a well-known teen is found murdered four people find their lives turned upside down ... each of them holding on to a life-threatening secret of their own makes it hard to not point a blaming finger especially when the only person who knew of these secrets is the one who ended up dead.
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It's summer in the small town of Roxie Cove, and the smell of freshly cut grass and sizzling barbeques fill the air. Every summer, the teens are bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, ready to spend their time at Saint DeLuca, a campsite on the outskirts of town. It is a place where they can be as reckless and as sneaky as they want without their parents finding out.
That's all thanks to the camp counselors. This year's core five are Kian Sullivan, Avani Grant, Dawson Hunt, Nadine O'Connor, and Marcel Bailey, and they want to make it their mission that the campers have the summer of their lives.
But, when Avani Grant is found floating in the lake with stab wounds so severe she's almost unrecognizable right before the campers are supposed to show, the cops shut down Saint DeLuca. With Kian, Dawson, Nadine, and Marcel the last four to see her alive, of course, they're the main suspects.
With the town on edge and Avani's web of clues slowly untangling, it's a tale of whodunnit.
But as the investigation pursues, it turns out Avani held onto secrets many would want to take to the grave. Now it's time to find out who took that meaning a little too serious?