About the Book Small Town Danger

 

 

Book: Small Town Danger

Authors: Mary Alford, Liz Bradford, June Foster, Therese Heckenkamp, Cynthia Hickey, Gina Holder, Edie James, Ann Malley, J. Carol Nemeth, and Colleen Snyder

Genre: Christian/Clean Romantic Mystery and Suspense

Release Date: April 25, 2023

More than lives are in danger when small-town tranquillity meets heart-pounding suspense in this collection of ten brand-new novels from some of the genre’s most explosive romantic suspense authors!

Join Mary Alford, Liz Bradford, June Foster, Therese Heckenkamp, Cynthia Hickey, Gina Holder, Edie James, Ann Malley, Carol Nemeth and Colleen Snyder as mystery, suspense, and faith combine to keep you on the edge of your seat until the very end.

Sins of the Past – A Hope Island Securities Book by Mary Alford

Ten years earlier, Janine put him away for murder. Now Bennett’s back in her life with a challenge—help me find the real killer.

Swept Away – Tracking Danger Book Two – A Search and Rescue Novel by Liz Bradford

When a SAR mission ends with a murder, Josh and Chloe must fight rising tensions before they get swept away.

Danger in Cranberry Cove by June Foster

When Julie Wilder joins local lawyer Lucas Ethridge in uncovering clues of who murdered their high school friend on the beach fifteen years before, phone calls from their deceased classmate are unnerving. After incriminating evidence turns up, can Lucas and Julie discover the killer’s identity or will they suffer the same fate as their friend?

Escaping Illusions – A Frozen Footprints Book by Therese Heckenkamp

All she wants is a new beginning, but a man famous for deception is the last person she should trust.

A Place to Hide by Cynthia Hickey

Is there nowhere to hide? Will Marley and Dirk escape a fan who always seems to be one step ahead of them?

Handmade Mayhem – Addie Masters Mysteries Book 1 by Gina Holder

“Who Knew DIY Could Be So Deadly.”

Hidden Sins – A Redemption Creek Romantic Suspense by Edie James

Redemption Creek, where sometimes justice needs a helping hand.

Debt of Honor by Ann Malley

Where’s the honor in loving your best friend’s wife? Or keeping the secrets that may get her and her baby killed?

Death Goes to School by J. Carol Nemeth

The rewarding profession of teaching: it could get you killed.

Twisted by Colleen Snyder

She’s eighteen. A visitor to a tornado-stricken town in need of help. Half of the residents think she’s a saint. While the other wants her dead.

 

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My Thoughts on Small Town Danger

Small Town Danger is a wonderful compilation of short novellas that focus on danger and suspense with faith front and center. There are 10 novellas within this one book.  I read it as an ebook through Kindle.  It read super quickly.  The stories were intense and suspenseful.  Each one had its own set of amazing characters as well. 

The only con I saw to this book is that each novella was its own stand-alone novel-type book.  They were not connected together.  You jumped from one set of characters and their stories to the next set.  I normally enjoy ones that keep the same characters and each focuses on another character from the same original scene or situation or one that was introduced in the previous book.  Also some of the novellas felt like they were already connected to a series that I hadn’t read and I felt a little bit lost. 

Now. 

Don’t let that bit about the cons throw you off.  This is still a wonderful compilation and I did thoroughly enjoy it.  

I’m not going to review each of the novellas.  That would take way too long.  But I might highlight a few.  That said.  They were all excellently written.  They all fully engrossed me in what was going on within the pages.  There was danger and suspense within each one!

Sins of the Past

This was an amazing novella.  I loved it.  You get to go to a small island and a serial killer follows the agent who thought she’d caught said serial killer but she’d really just put away someone that he’d framed.  It’s like he’s always been a step ahead of her and she is actually his real target.  

I loved watching the characters and how raw and real their emotions were.  Plus the ending had some twists and turns and was really great.  It definitely kept you in suspense and wondering what would happen next!

I knew I was going to love this one because I’ve read books by Mary Alford before and they are always excellent.  She has a wonderful way of weaving a story together and keeping you in suspense.  Some books I have the bad guys picked out really early on but that is not normally the case with her novels!  Now I want to see what else in this series I can find and read.  Because you never have too many books to read!

Swept Away

Another author I always enjoy reading. 

This one has a team of SAR going to a small remote area to find a missing man.  When they find him dead and stage in a very unique way they know something is off around this town.  And then when they can’t leave and another person goes missing the stakes are high and danger is higher!

Another super fast suspense-filled read that you don’t want to miss.  Makes me wonder if there are other books with these characters as they seemed to have quite the past that I wanted to explore more.  Plus some of those supporting characters definitely deserve their own books because I really want to know their stories.

That’s probably enough for now but please let me know if you want to know more about any of the other novellas and what I thought of them.  These were my two favorites so I picked them out to review.  But I did absolutely love the one about the tornado and the fires as well.  I’m already thinking I need to find the next book in that series because she’s such a unique heroine with all of her past and the way that shaped her. 

Oh, one more!

Debt of Honor

This was a great suspense read.  However, I didn’t appreciate the whole is the baby his or her dead husband bit.  That was a lot of extra drama that I would have liked to have not seen within the book. It made a lot of reading about conflicting emotions with our female character because the baby could be either her dead husband or his partner who happened to be her lover at one point.  I don’t feel that it really mattered to the overall story line.

I did love how suspenseful the book was and the duplicitous characters.  The teens were interesting and the gang knowledge as well.  The tiny area I call home (small town anyone?) doesn’t really have gangs though we do have drug issues.

I have voluntarily reviewed a complimentary copy of this book which I received from Celebrate Lit. All views expressed are only my honest opinion. I was not required to write a positive review nor was I compensated in any other way. All opinions expressed are my own. I am disclosing this in accordance with the FTC regulations. 

 

About the Authors of Small Town Danger

 

 

Liz Bradford

Liz Bradford didn’t always know she was a writer, but story ideas have always been a part of her life. When she finally took an idea seriously, she started writing and hasn’t been able to stop. She is a member of ACFW and ACFW-Louisville Chapter. Even though Liz’s heart yearns to live in the mountains of North Carolina, she and her husband live in southern Indiana where she homeschools their three daughters.

June Foster

An award-winning author, June Foster is a retired teacher with a BA in Education and an MA in counselling. June began writing Christian romance in 2010 as she and her husband travelled the US in their RV. Her adventures provide a rich source of information for her novels. She brags about visiting a location before it becomes the setting in her next book.

To date, June has written over thirty contemporary romance and romantic suspense novels and novellas. June uses her training in counselling and her Christian beliefs to create characters who encounter real-life difficulties yet live victorious lives. She’s published with Winged Publications. Visit June at www.junefoster.com to see a complete list of her books.

Her novel, The Inn at Cranberry Cove, won the 2021 Selah Award for Romantic Suspense. It is available on Amazon in paperback, hardback, and eBook format.

Therese Heckenkamp

Born in Australia but raised in the US as a homeschooled student, Therese Heckenkamp has been writing stories since before she could spell. She lives in Wisconsin and is an award-winning author of five Christian romance and suspense novels as well as a non-award-winning mother of five energetic kids. As a busy stay-at-home mom, Therese writes whenever she can manage (and sometimes when she can’t). She dreams up new stories mostly at night when the house is—if she’s lucky—finally quiet. It’s no coincidence one of her novels is called Sleep Deprived. ​

Cynthia Hickey

Cynthia Hickey is a multi-published and best-selling author of cozy mysteries and romantic suspense. She has taught writing at many conferences and small writing retreats. She and her husband run the publishing press, Winged Publications, which includes some of the CBA’s best well-known authors. They live in Arizona and Arkansas, becoming snowbirds with two dogs and one cat. They have ten grandchildren who keep them busy and tell everyone they know that “Nana is a writer.”

Gina Holder

Gina Holder is an indie author and stay-at-home mom. She’s had an infatuation with books for as long as she can remember. She loves sharing uplifting messages from God’s Word and introducing readers to new and new-to-them authors on her blog at http://storiesbygina.wordpress.com. When she’s not writing, Gina enjoys playing the piano, cooking, reading, watching Hallmark mysteries, and solving “escape room” puzzles. She’s been a member of ACFW for several years and loves growing in her craft as an author. She published her debut novel in 2017. Gina lives in Colorado with her husband and daughter.

Edie

Edie writes faith-filled romantic suspense featuring adventurous women and the heroic men who love them.

Don’t let the smile fool you. Edie spends far too much of her time considering murder, mayhem, and former Navy SEALS with private jets and high-tech toys. ​

She lives within sight of the real-life town that inspired the Hope Landing series with her firefighter husband, one creaky senior border collie and three mischievous cats.​

Ann Malley

Ann Malley is an empty-nesting, homeschool mom looking for fun. Don’t let the Snapchat filters fool you. She writes clean romantic suspense when not dabbling in short, sassy romantic comedies.

J. Carol Nemeth

A native North Carolinian, J. Carol Nemeth always loved reading and making up stories since childhood and began writing in junior high school. As a young adult, she worked in the National Park Service and served in the US Army where she was stationed in Pisa, Italy. While there she met the love of her life, Mark Nemeth, also an Army veteran. They’ve lived in various locations including North Yorkshire, England. Now living in West Virginia, they enjoy RVing and travelling to research for Carol’s books. They have two grown children, a son-in-law, a daughter-in-law, three amazing grandchildren, and a lab fur baby named Holly. Carol is a member of ACFW and an Amazon Bestselling author. She writes Christian historical and contemporary romantic suspense and has published twelve novellas and full-length novels.

Colleen K. Snyder

​Colleen K. Snyder has always had a passion for writing. She authored two previously published books: Journey to Amanah: The Beginning (1991) and Return to Tebel-Ayr: The Journey Continues (1993) (B&H Publishing). Colleen is the author of the “Collin Walker Series” of books. She lives on a “ranchette” in California and is the (very) junior ranch hand. She serves on her church prayer team and exercises a ministry of encouragement. Colleen has worked as a factory line worker, pharmacy technician, USAF missile systems analyst, nanny, teacher and whatever else the Lord required. Her story is for His glory, always.

Mary Alford

Mary Alford is a USA Today bestselling author who loves giving her readers the unexpected, combining unforgettable characters with unpredictable plots that result in stories the reader can’t put down. Her titles have been finalists for several awards, including the Daphne Du Maurier, the Beverly, the Maggie, and the Selah. She and her husband live in the heart of Texas in the middle of 70 acres with two cats and one dog.

 

More from Mary

 

 

 

If you’re like me, when you picture a small town, you think about a place where you feel welcomed and where the world becomes a little bit smaller and friendlier. Small towns are a safe place where everyone knows everyone and big-city crime seems so far away.

Imagines of county fairs and picnics in the park come to mind. Fireworks on the fourth of July, and a small-town church where the town gathers to worship on Sunday.

That image is a peaceful one.

But do you ever think about the secrets that might lay hidden behind those cheerful small-town curtains?

That was one of the things that attracted me, Mary Alford, to creating the Small Town Danger collection along with Liz Bradford, June Foster, Therese Heckenkamp, Cynthia Hickey, Gina Holder, Edie James, Ann Malley, Carol Nemeth and Colleen Snyder.

The idea of taking a seemingly tranquil setting such as a small town and then throwing in a dangerous situation that flips everything you think you know about a small town on its ear is the premise behind Small Town Danger—a collection of 10 full-length novels available now on Amazon.

Getting to work with such a talented group of authors was an amazing blessing for me.

So, I hope you enjoy the Small Town Danger collection as much as each of the authors enjoyed creating these tales of intrigue that prove not all small towns are tranquil and not all secrets stay hidden.

 

Blog Stops for Small Town Danger

Adventures of a Travelers Wife, August 28 (Author Interview)

Lily’s Book Reviews, August 28

Texas Book-aholic, August 29

For the Love of Literature, August 30 (Author Interview)

Debbie’s Dusty Deliberations, August 30

The Book Club Network, August 31

Locks, Hooks and Books, September 1

Book Reviews From an Avid Reader, September 2

Because I said so — and other adventures in Parenting, September 3

Truth and Grace Homeschool Academy, September 4

Blogging With Carol, September 5

Book Looks by Lisa, September 6

Artistic Nobody, September 7 (Author Interview)

For Him and My Family, September 8

She Lives to Read, September 9

Happily Managing a Household of Boys, September 10

 

Giveaway for Small Town Danger

 

 

To celebrate her tour, Mary is giving away the grand prize of a $50 Amazon gift card!!

Be sure to comment on the blog stops for nine extra entries into the giveaway!

Click the link below to enter.

https://promosimple.com/ps/27a6d/small-town-danger-celebration-tour-giveaway