Review: "A Great Crime Mystery Which Grips the Reader"
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 30, 2014
This is the second novel I've read by Ann Mullen.  I couldn't put her first book down, and neither this one. Women's clubs ... can be very eventful.  Some women are always better than others, they shun and ignore who they don't like, find fault, and then there are those who want to dominate.  There's one here who wants to be the respected leader of the Stanardsville Social Club.  She has discovered a way to remove her competition.  As a second sequel to "South River Incident," Jessie Watson, now married to her private investigator boss, Billy Blackhawk, Jesse's baby boy, Ethan Samuel Blackhawk, arrives two weeks early.  They have also adopted 10-month old Maisy after her parents died.  While still at the hospital with her new infant, Billy's brother is shot in the hospital parking lot, but not fatally.  Nearly at the same time, a second member of the women's club has been murdered.  These novels are very exciting and compelling to read.  This story moves right along, but throws you some twists and turns wondering how the villain will be discovered.  In this story Jesse's whole family may be victimized which nearly sends Jesse over the edge.  But being a new mother, she seems to have a better control over her emotions.  Or ... does she? I lost many hours of sleep reading this extraordinary story which has humor, mystery, action, romance, tears ... I'm hooked on the Jesse Watson series.  I'm going to read every one of them!  You will, too!