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July 2010
Blood Money:
A Patty O’Donnell Suspense
Pepper Smith
Publication date: March 2010
Genre: Mystery/Suspense
ISBNs: Trade Paperback 978-1606592212 Ebook: 978-1606592205
Ebook formats are listed at Mundania. Trade paper is $11.95, Ebook is $4.99. Is available at Amazon, Fictionwise, and a variety of other online retailers, as well as the publisher's website.
Publisher: Mundania Press
http://www.mundania.com/
Ms. Smith’s Patty O’Donnell series can now be found with her new publisher Mundania Press. I’m happy to repost my review of her mystery adventure. Discover and re-discover Pepper Smith.
Welcome to author Pepper Smith and her heroine Patty O’Donnell. Hang on; you're in for a world-win ride.
Pepper Smith's Patty O’Donnell Suspense series is high quality writing and emotionally charged. I'm guilty of breaking my long-standing rule - never read the last page no matter what.
In BLOOD MONEY we are introduced to horse trainer Patty. She's been married and living in Ireland these last 4 years. Her husband Mícheál is a jockey while father-in-law Séamas is the boss. Both men are a bit old world...a tad chauvinistic. However, they are somehow charming and likeable. It doesn't hurt that Séamas feels strongly for Patty's mystery writer Aunt Liz.
In Patty's first adventure they are hoping sunken treasure will free Aunt Liz’s friend from an abusive husband. Meanwhile someone's hunting Patty. For her own safety Mícheál sends Patty to help her sister and brother-in-law with the treasure hunt...okay, to be babysat by her brother-in-law. Getting kidnapped, nearly killed and kidnapped again wasn't part of the package.
Yes, Pepper, you sure have put Patty through the ringer...a few of them. Normally, that can be a story's weakness; however, there's nothing weak about your stories.
While I might not have as much patience for Patty's husband as she does, you write them both truthfully. Cousin Collin is someone I wish I could stay hating, but there's something honest about him...even when he's deluding himself. Your Master Villain, well he's just plain mean, intelligent, scary, and why do I hope to read more about him?
What's next? There better be a next.
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