Murder is Personal - A Jake Powell Mystery
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Jake Powell came to Rattlesnake Bend to disappear.
The dying North Texas lake town was the perfect place to outrun his past: no questions, no connections, no reminders of the life he left behind in Massachusetts. He kept his head down, worked for a local woodworker, drank beer at the Cock 'N' Bull, and tried not to think about April Hunter-the woman he abandoned without explanation years ago.
Then April shows up in town wearing a yellow rain coat.
Twelve hours later, she's dead.
With the sheriff convinced he's guilty, Jake starts digging for answers on his own. What begins as a murder investigation spirals into a maze of family secrets, corporate corruption, anonymous threats, and lies buried for decades. The deeper Jake digs, the closer he gets to exposing his own dark secret - plus one more that could destroy him.
BJ Condike
BJ Condike writes mystery fiction featuring ordinary people caught in extraordinary circumstances. He draws inspiration from small-town communities, hidden histories, and the secrets people keep from those closest to them. BJ Condike has won several short story contests, including twice placing in the top 1% of Writers Digest's Short-Short Story Contest. His stories appear in several anthologies published by Granbury Writers' Bloc, Sisters in Crime North Dallas, and the Key West Writer's Guild. BJ completed The Writers Path creative writing program at Southwestern University in Dallas. He is vice president of the Key West Writers Guild and is a member of Sisters in Crime and the Mystery Writers of America.When BJ is not writing or reading, he's plying the waters of the Florida Keys in his boat Sea-Quel with his wife ML Condike and their Corgi Sophie.
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