Hard Truth

Wrong Author

You have the blurb for an Anna Pigeon book listed under Mariah Stewart. Anna Pigeon is written by Nevada Barr.

Little suspense...No romance

If you looking for romantic suspense this is not your book. The characters were superficial. The plot was believable but not well delivered. There was no chemistry between the hero and heroin. I'm not into erotica but this relationship was boring. I don't plan on buying the next in the series.

Weak plot and unbelievable

The characters were bland. The relationships weren't developed between any of the characters. The support and loyalty that Lorna gave Billie was unbelievable. If someone abused my best friend, it would take a lot for me to overlook that and want to help the abuser. The relationship between T.J. and Lorna wasn't meaningfully established. Even the friendship between Regan and Lorna seemed weak. This is the second Mariah Stewart book I've read, and it will be my last. I stuck with the story till the end hoping that she could pull the story off and was disappointed.

Book 2

Lorna was only nine-years-old when her best friend, Melinda Eagen, vanished on her birthday. Everyone believed that either her mean brother, Jason, killed her or her abusive/alcoholic mother, Billie, did. However, no body or proof was ever found. Shortly thereafter, Jason disappeared too. ................................ Twenty years later Lorna returns to Callen, Pennsylvania. Her siblings have lives elsewhere. Lorna has no husband or children and can take her business with her anywhere, compliments of her computer and being self employed. So when Lorna's mother dies, she is the logical choice to appraise the house, the contents, and all the land before selling everything. Things get complicated when Jason's remains are excavated from some land Lorna's mother had sold off a year or so ago. The local law has only circumstantial evidence and old rumors that point to Billie as the killer. But that does not keep them from arresting Billie. Then several more bodily remains of boys show up buried on that partial of land. Did Billie kill them all? Or is there a serial killer nearby? ............................... Lorna is a lot like her mother and refuses to simply assume Billie is guilty of murdering one or both of her kids, not to mention several other unknown boys. So she hires T.J. Dawson, former FBI profiler and P.I., to investigate the matter. Needless to say, the killer is not happy with Lorna. .................................. *** Not much suspense or tension in this story, but still well done and worth your time to read. I am looking forward to the third in this series. ***

Excellent romantic thriller

Nine years old Melinda Egan vanished without a trace. Not long afterward her older brother Jason, a nasty youngster, also disappeared. The locals assume they just ran off.............. Years later, a section of the Stiles farm is sold. To the shock of the new owner, human bones are found that are later identified as those of Jason. At about the same time Lorna Stiles has returned home to settle her late mother¿s estate. She is totally unsatisfied with the police investigation because she demands to know what happened to her best friend Melinda. Her friend Regan Landry introduces Lorna to former FBI Agent T.J. Dawson, a private investigator, who agrees to look into the murders especially the disappearance of Melinda. As Lorna fears a family member is a serial killer who used or perhaps still using the Stiles farm as a personal cemetery, T.J. soon believes his job is to keep Lorna safe from this murdering psychopath who he feels still lives................. Mariah Stewart is simply amazing as she has over the past few months consistently kept the quality level of her thrillers stratospherically high though she has released several novels. Her current tale, HARD TRUTH, is a fabulous romantic investigative thriller that never slows down from the moment the first corpse is found until the climax. Fans will want to read the previous tale COLD TRUTH and look forward to the next story DARK TRUTH as this is an author who provides fantastic serial killer tales that keep the audience¿s attention throughout................ Harriet Klausner

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