The
Light Catcher Murders
Kate
Atherton Mysteries Book 1
by
Jo Cassie McRae
Genre:
Cozy Mystery
Kate
Atherton’s idyllic retirement is going well…if you don’t count
the two murders, the mysterious drone, and her photographer friend
who manages to poke a hornet’s nest of criminal activity, that
is.
Nestled
in the scenic Texas Hill Country, the cozy town of Wheaton Creek
seemed to Kate Atherton an idyllic place to escape the world’s
harsh realities. And then there was the first murder.
Kate
once enjoyed a long, successful career with a specialized, highly
secret federal intelligence agency. Crises in both her personal and
professional life drove her to early retirement and, ultimately, to
Wheaton Creek, the perfect place for her and her former-military
husband to escape what had come to feel like a world made up of wars,
hatred, fear, and untimely death. And, at first, the escape was all
Kate had hoped for. Then murder came to Wheaton Creek—a crime that
a corrupt county sheriff seems determined to pin on Kate’s
photographer friend, Lucy Celek.
Lucy’s
work has been chosen to appear at a prestigious photography festival,
a festival that could take her from amateur to professional standing.
All goes well until the gallery displaying her work is broken into,
and one of Lucy’s photographs is vandalized. A week later, the man
Lucy suspected of destroying her photograph—a fellow photographer
who was angry that his own work was not chosen by the festival
committee—is murdered. Faced with a sheriff who shows little
interest in expanding his list of suspects beyond Lucy, Kate feels
she must dust off her puzzle-solving skills to find the real killer.
Murder is just the beginning, though, as Kate’s amateur sleuthing
begins to reveal a tangled web of crimes that go beyond anything she
could have imagined.
Jo Cassie McRae is a native Texan who has lived near Austin on the edge
of the Texas Hill country for over 30 years. In addition to writing,
McRae loves to read, garden, and cook. Like Kate Atherton (The Light
Catcher Murders), McRae's bookshelves overflow with history books,
biographies, historical fiction, and mystery novels. Unlike Kate,
McRae does not have a mysterious, secret former career, having worked
instead as a rather ordinary legal assistant at an Austin law firm.
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