"A real gem... a page-turner!" — St. Albert Gazette ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐

"Action-packed drama, mystery, and suspense that keeps you intrigued till the very end!" — Goodreads ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐

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Big-hearted Mabel Davison runs a busy highway motel and diner owner serving coffee and pie in the small mountain town of Blue River. Hands full as a single parent to two rambunctious boys and her orphaned niece, she isn't looking for more investigating to do.

But a call from a lawyer friend shatters the calm. 

A distraught single mother is going to jail for assaulting police officers who don't believe that a sinister man had abducted her drug-addicted daughter.

As Mabel takes on the case, she lands in the crosshairs of the local drug lord, Karl Larson. Sheriff Dan Gibson warns her that with the Drug Enforcement Agency on the prowl, Larson can't afford anyone poking around. And with the town on Larson's payroll, the fragile truce built by turning a blind eye will descend into terrible violence.

As pressure mounts to force Mabel off the case, her investigation quickly falters, and then her worst nightmares come true — her niece goes missing too. 

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Set in an atmospheric Pacific Northwest town in the 1980s, the second standalone installment of the captivating Mabel Davison historical mystery series is "just as enjoyable and unputdownable as the first."

Everyone's favorite big-hearted, amateur sleuth is back.