Just North of Luck - Couverture souple

SBI Agent Logan Hunter wends up just north of Luck, North Carolina on the trail of a sociopath. Can she stop the bloody killing spree? In the mountains of North Carolina a high school custodian is suffocated in plastic and thrown into the Dumpster. A music teacher is beaten to death a few weeks later. Agent Hunter is already in the area working on another case when she's assigned to help Madison County detective Chase Railey track down the killer. Logan rents a room in Taryn Kosterman's home in the community of Trust. Over the next few months she deals with quirky characters and frustrating dead ends. As she spends more time with Railey, she experiences some unusual local festivals and her first taste of love. Murders of Madison County school personnel continue and get incrfeasingly gruesome. Evidence is hard to come by but Logan finally has enough to search the main suspect's home. After a wild chase, a mudslide dumps Logan and the killer into the French Broad River. Only one of them will walk away.

Award-winning multi-genre author Susan Whitfield is a native of North Carolina, where she sets all of her novels. She is the author of five published mysteries, Genesis Beach, Just North of Luck, Hell Swamp, Sin Creek and Sticking Point. She also authored Killer Recipes, a unique cookbook that includes recipes from mystery writers around the country. Slightly Cracked is her first women’s fiction, set in Wayne County where she lives with her husband. Their two sons live nearby with their families. Susan’s a member of Mystery Writers of America, Sisters in Crime, Coastal Carolina Mystery Writers, and North Carolina Writers Network. Her books are available in print and ebook formats. Susan is currently researching a medieval ancestor for an historical mystery.