Pamela Fagan Hutchins has 18 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 6 narrators, with an average listener rating of 4★ across 2 ratings. The most-rated is The Complete Emily Bernal Trilogy.
The Complete Emily Bernal Trilogy
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Heaven to Betsy When a dead body swan-dives from a balcony into the pool at a wedding, gossip comes to a halt about disgraced paralegal and former rodeo queen Emily - whose husband left her for a woman who turns out to be a man. Enter Jack, a secretive attorney and sexy mix of cowboy and Indian. She refuses to work for him, until she learns about the disappearance of the six-year old daughter of his notorious client Sofia. Emily launches a desperate search for her. Bodies pile up in her wake across Texas and New Mexico as the walls around her own secrets begin to crumble. Earth to Emily Emily only wants two little things. The first is to adopt Betsy - the girl who has stolen her heart but could be deported to Mexico at any time. The other is a second chance with her boss, Jack, a smolderingly hot and mysterious criminal defense attorney. But before Emily can dare to hope for either (or both), the obstacles between them mount: two runaway teenagers, an aging exotic dancer, and a dead trucker. Hell to Pay Emily finally has her life back on track. Then client Phil Escalante's childhood buddy Dennis drops dead, face first into a penis cake at the adult novelty store. The cops charge Phil with murder right on the heels of his trial for burglarizing the Mighty is His Word Church. Emily's nemesis ADA Melinda Stafford claims a witness overheard Phil fighting with Dennis over a woman. Before he can mount a defense, Phil falls into a diabetic coma. Meanwhile Betsy’s ultra-religious foster parents apply to adopt her, and Jack starts acting weird and evasive. Emily feels like a calf out of a chute, pulled between the ropes of the header and the heeler, as she fights to help Phil without losing Betsy and Jack.
©2015 Pamela Fagan Hutchins (P)2016 Pamela Fagan Hutchins
The Complete Katie Connell Trilogy
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Katie Connell is a high-strung attorney whose sloppy drinking habits and stunted love life collide hilariously during a doomed celebrity case in Dallas. She flees Texas for the Caribbean and escapes professional humiliation, a broken heart, and a wicked Bloody Mary habit, but ends up trading one set of problems for another when she begins to investigate the suspicious deaths of her parents on the island of St. Marcos. She's bewitched by the voodoo spirit of an abandoned house in the rainforest and discovers that she's as much a danger to herself as the island's bad guys are. One unexpected and hotly fought-over little boy, two dead bodies, and a series of home vandalisms throw Texas attorney turned island chanteuse Katie Connell into a tizzy. Juggling all of this, Bloody Mary cravings, baggage, and the bad guys too, she waffles between the house that brought her back from the brink and the man she believes is the love of her life. Katie's already on edge when a dead guy shows up at Estate Annalise and shady locals claim there are slave remains in the foundation, but when her husband doesn't come home to her and the kids one day after work, she's ready to lose it. A frantic Katie launches a Caribbean-wide manhunt, calling on her stoic, steady father-in-law, and Collin, her badass big brother, to help her search air, land, and sea for her husband, who may be in very big trouble indeed.
©2014 Pamela Fagan Hutchins (P)2016 Pamela Fagan Hutchins
Knockout (Ava #3): A What Doesn't Kill You Romantic Mystery
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A controversial tourist resort. An unsolved beachside murder. Does she have the pipes to blow the whistle on a deadly conspiracy? Everyone wants a piece of Ava’s skyrocketing star power...including her serious boyfriend and her deadbeat baby daddy. But when she visits the future site of a controversial resort and stumbles upon a dead body, Ava thinks she’s finally found a worthy cause for her newfound celebrity. Determined to catch the killer and stop the construction of the eco-unfriendly tourist trap, she plans to put her sex symbol status to good use. Infiltrating the resort chain gala’s celebrity guest list, she teams up with a heavyweight boxer to dig up dirt on the investors. But her investigation takes a critical hit when her ex sues for full custody. Faced with the possibility of losing her daughter, she may have to give up the flirty persona she’s put to good use in wheeling out secrets from under the noses of corrupt investors. To solve the murder and save her career, Ava must find a new way to take down the multi-million-dollar nest of corruption before her dead body joins the construction heap. Knockout is the third book in Ava’s trilogy within the What Doesn’t Kill You romantic mystery saga. If you like strong single mothers, glamorous celebrity lifestyles, and hard-hitting whodunits, then you’ll love USA Today best seller Pamela Fagan Hutchins’ award-winning series.
©2018 Pamela Fagan Hutchins (P)2019 Pamela Fagan Hutchins
Fighting for Anna: A Michele Romantic Mystery
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Murder and political intrigue shatter a peaceful retreat. Michele retreats to the country while her teens are away for the summer, to write the memoirs of her elderly neighbor, Gidget - a reclusive former Houston art gallery owner - and learn how to be alone in the wake of her husband’s death. But when Gidget dies unexpectedly, she leaves everything to Michele except a bequest to a daughter no one knew existed. Suddenly, Michele's country quiet is shattered, and half of Texas shows up: some to help, some to contest the will, and others to make sure the mystery daughter is never found alive. See why Pamela’s novels have won contest after contest. 2017 Winner - Silver Falchion for Best Adult Mystery 2017 Winner - Silver Falchion for Best Adult Mystery 2016 Winner - Best Book Awards, Cross-Genre Fiction 2015 Winner Best Book Awards, Cross-Genre Fiction 2014 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award, Romance, quarter-finalist Once Upon a Romance calls Hutchins an "up-and-coming powerhouse writer." If you like Sandra Brown or Janet Evanovich, you're going to love Pamela Fagan Hutchins. A former attorney and native Texan, Pamela splits her time between Nowheresville, Texas, and the frozen north of Snowheresville, Wyoming. The Michele reviews are in, and they're good. Very, very good. "Immediately hooked." (Terry Sykes-Bradshaw, author of Sibling Revelry) "Spellbinding." (Jo Bryan, Dry Creek Book Club) "Fast-paced mystery." (Deb Krenzer, book reviewer) "Can't put it down." (Cathy Bader, reader) "LOVED IT!" (Marcy McKay, author of Pennies from Burger Heaven) Catch more adventures with Michele and her friends in the What Doesn't Kill You world. Grab your copy of Fighting for Anna today.
©2016 Pamela Fagan Hutchins (P)2016 Pamela Fagan Hutchins
Switchback
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A doctor with a taste for adventure. A doomed mountain vacation with his family. In the midst of a million acres of wilderness, Patrick Flint is about to discover that not everybody loves the new town doc. All Patrick Flint wants is a peaceful getaway in the Wyoming mountains for his rare days off. He’s grown weary of the bicentennial celebrations, the angry families of patients, the rash of campers coming down from the mountains high on speed, and the midnight call-outs to cover for the town veterinarian. When his wife Susanne balks at the trip just as they’re walking out the door - leaving him to go it alone with his lovestruck teenage daughter Trish and eager-but-adolescent son Perry - Patrick is wounded but determined, despite the news of a murderer escaping custody on the other side of the mountains. After two days of rain-soaked horseback riding to hunt and fish, Patrick’s gotten nothing but weird encounters, wet socks, and a whiny daughter. So, on the third day, when Trish begs to stay behind at their campsite to read, Patrick is secretly relieved. Meanwhile back in town, Susanne’s had a rough time of it herself. A break-in, a wreck, and a premonition that something is terribly wrong with her family. Unable to ignore her growing fears, she enlists the help of a Wyoming-tough neighbor, and the two women make for the mountains. When Patrick and Perry return to camp, Trish has vanished, along with the horses, the truck, and the trailer. Clues point in opposite directions. Did she run off with the boy whose note Patrick found at the camp? Or was she taken - as the tire marks over their destroyed tent suggest? Whichever it was, the tracks lead into the mountains, not out of them. With help too far away to make it before Trish’s trail is washed away, Patrick and Perry embark on a desperate trek into the wilderness to find her, with Susanne not far behind them.
©2019 Pamela Fagan Hutchins (P)2019 Pamela Fagan Hutchins
Bombshell: An Ava Romantic Mystery
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A musical career in the making. A murdered childhood friend. One chance to catch the killer. Ava dreams of building a better life for her daughter through her island pop songs. Her new temp job leads to a once-in-a-lifetime shot at a record deal, but before she can pack her bags for New York, she discovers a dead body outside her office building. Horrified, Ava recognizes the murdered sex worker as her childhood friend. The single mother finds herself torn between pursuing her life’s passion or justice for her murdered friend. When another friend is killed, she worries the deaths are connected to a shared trauma that she’s been running from her whole life. After dumping her cop boyfriend, she realizes the pain she keeps locked inside could be sabotaging her shot at lasting love. Before Ava can move on to a bright future in music, she must confront the truth behind her dark past to catch the murderer or she'll be next on his kill list. Bombshell is the first audiobook in Ava’s trilogy within the What Doesn’t Kill You romantic mystery saga. If you like sexy single moms, shocking suspense, and journeys of self-empowerment, then you’ll love Pamela Fagan Hutchins’ award-winning series. Buy Bombshell to get into the rhythm with a fast-paced pop murder mystery today.
©2017 Pamela Fagan Hutchins (P)2018 Pamela Fagan Hutchins
Sick Puppy: A Maggie Killian Texas-to-Wyoming Mystery
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Murder-by-fire. A catfishing squatter. Will Maggie get her life back before the killer claims the one thing she has left to lose? Junker and former alt-country rocker Maggie Killian tucks tail back to Texas with Louise, the mutt her bull-riding ex foisted on her in Wyoming after he gave another woman his heart. Maggie runs straight to Gary Fuller - her long time best friend-with-benefits and the biggest Texas country music star since George Strait - but arrives too late to save him from dying in a fire. She just wants to lick her wounds in her own bed with nothing save a bottle for comfort, but Maggie’s short term renter refuses to budge from her home. Soon her small town sanctuary is overrun with Nashville bigwigs, Gary’s trailer park family, and grief-crazed fans feeding the fires of media speculation about the bodies in her wake. With Maggie barely functional enough to fight back and law enforcement hell bent on scapegoating her, she begins to suspect Gary’s death wasn’t an isolated incident. To save her livelihood and sanity, she’s gotta woman-up before everything and everyone she loves goes up in flames, too. Sick Puppy is the second stand-alone book in a trilogy featuring sharp-tongued protagonist Maggie Killian from the addictive What Doesn’t Kill You romantic mystery series. If you like nerve-racking suspense, electric characters and relationships, and juicy plot twists, then you’ll love USA Today best seller Pamela Fagan Hutchins’ Silver Falchion award-winning series.
©2019 Pamela Fagan Hutchins (P)2020 Pamela Fagan Hutchins
Live Wire: A Maggie Killian Texas-to-Wyoming Mystery
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A hook-up turned lethal. A spurned, angry cowboy. Can rebel Maggie turn the tables before a killer adds her to the list of lost causes? Washed-up alt-country-rocker-turned-junker Maggie Killian is pulled to Wyoming by an irresistible force...former bull rider Hank Sibley, the man who broke her heart 15 years before. When she unexpectedly meets his Sunday school-teaching girlfriend at a saloon, Maggie seeks liquor-fueled oblivion between the sheets of a younger man’s bed. But after her beloved vintage truck breaks down and leaves her stranded in the Cowboy State, she learns her hook-up died minutes after leaving their rendezvous. Suddenly surrounded by men with questionable motives, Maggie searches for the murderer while fighting the electricity between herself and her old beau and her new penchant for local whiskey. When the police zero in on Maggie despite a disturbing series of break-ins at her guest cabin, she realizes she’s got no one to rely on but herself. To stay happily in bars instead of behind them, she must stop the killer before the cops realize the man she really suspects is a jealous, angry Hank. Live Wire is the first standalone book in a trilogy featuring sharp-tongued protagonist Maggie Killian from the addictive What Doesn’t Kill You romantic mystery series. If you like nerve-racking suspense, electric characters and relationships, and juicy plot twists, then you’ll love USA Today best seller Pamela Fagan Hutchins’ Silver Falchion award-winning series.
©2019 Pamela Fagan Hutchins (P)2020 Pamela Fagan Hutchins
Act One
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USA Best Book Award-winning series in cross-genre fiction. A fast-paced prequel mystery featuring all the kick ass What Doesn't Kill You female sleuths. It's five years before Katie runs away to the islands, and this time her travels take her closer to home: back to her law school reunion. With Emily as her plus-one and Michele rounding out the party, their evening at a murder mystery dinner theater goes awry with weird former classmates, too many cocktails, and - oh yeah - a real murder onstage before the cast finishes Act One. Meanwhile, fallen-star Maggie loses out on her chance at redemption in the starring role when she shows up polluted, and Ava gleefully fills in, in more ways than one. Laura, on a stopover between races, attends on gifted tickets from a grateful horse owner, and has a ringside view to the circus. The women's paths crisscross and backtrack over each other in ways that will resonate for years to come, with each holding clues she doesn't know she has to the identity of the murderer, who is far too close to one of them for comfort.
©2016 Pamela Fagan Hutchins (P)2017 Pamela Fagan Hutchins
The Complete Michele Lopez Hanson Trilogy
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A family in danger. A missing love child. A deadly new strain of murder. Going for Kona: When Michele Lopez Hanson quit her law practice to become an author, she was looking forward to spending more time with her husband and kids. But when a tragic biking accident claims her husband’s life, she finds herself with nothing but free time and painful memories. When her teenage son is accused of murder, she has no choice but to track down the real killer. 2014 Finalist USA Best Book Awards, cross genre fiction Fighting for Anna: With her kids away for the summer, widow Michele Lopez Hanson struggles with her newfound solitude. When her retired neighbor Gidget asks her to document her career in the art world, she’s eager for the company. But their trek down memory lane turns into a search for a missing person. Gidget dies and leaves behind a will that tasks Michele with finding her long-lost love child. To complete the memoir and clear her name, Michele must discover the ugly motives behind the picture-perfect murder before she joins her friend six-feet-under. 2017 Winner Silver Falchion for best adult mystery Searching for Dime Box: After lonely months spent writing her true crime novel, Michele Lopez Hanson reconnects with her community by offering pro bono legal counsel. When an open-and-closed drug case takes an unexpected turn, she’s determined to shake off the dust and hit the books. But after a mysterious sickness sends her infant grandson to the hospital, she worries she may have bitten off more than she can chew. To save her grandson, she must expose the culprits before the deadly sickness claims another victim. From USA Today best-selling author Pamela Fagan Hutchins.
©2018 Pamela Fagan Hutchins (P)2019 Pamela Fagan Hutchins
Stunner
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A nationwide tour. A pop star in the cross hairs. Touring with the band just got deadly. After battling breast cancer, island pop singer and single mom Ava thought she could handle anything her concert tour threw her way. But when tragedy strikes her album launch party, she realizes she may have underestimated the price she’ll have to pay for fame. The cost skyrockets when someone attempts to murder her headlining act. Still shaken by the alarming attack, Ava has little time to process the traumatic event before she’s caught up in a scandal worthy of the tabloids. Someone in her staff is leaking secrets to the paparazzi, and the fallout is wreaking havoc on her love life. When a second pop singer is targeted, Ava doubles down on her search for clues. But with music careers and multimillion-dollar contracts on the line, she could pack a stadium with potential suspects. Knowing her future hinges on staying in the spotlight, Ava must track down the murderous stalker before the final curtain drops. Stunner is the second audiobook in Ava’s trilogy within the What Doesn’t Kill You series of romantic mysteries. If you like sexy pop stars, backstage scandals, and edge-of-your-seat mysteries, then you’ll love Pamela Fagan Hutchins’ award-winning series. Buy Stunner to go on the road with a show-stopping murder mystery today! See why Pamela’s novels have won contest after contest. 2017 winner, Silver Falchion for Best Adult Mystery 2016 winner, Best Book Awards Cross-Genre Fiction 2015 winner, Best Book Awards Cross-Genre Fiction If you like Sandra Brown or Janet Evanovich, you will love Pamela Fagan Hutchins. A former attorney who splits her time between Nowheresville, Texas, and the frozen North of Snowheresville, Wyoming, Pamela lived in the US Virgin Islands for nearly 10 years. She refuses to admit to taking notes for this series during that time. Catch more adventures with Ava and her friends in the What Doesn't Kill You world. Scroll up and grab your copy of Stunner today.
©2018 Pamela Fagan Hutchins (P)2018 Pamela Fagan Hutchins
Dead Pile
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A murdered ranch hand. An erratic lover. If she doesn’t uncover the killer, Maggie’s body may be next on the dead pile. After Maggie Killian’s junker business goes into the shitter in Texas, the former alt-country rocker packs up her vintage truck and rescue mutt for Wyoming and a sexy reunion with her ex, Hank Sibley. When she discovers Hank’s foreman unceremoniously dumped on the ranch’s dead pile - the repository for deceased livestock - deputies look no further than the ranch for suspects, especially the young Amish hand, Andy, who received a battlefield promotion of sorts. Because the two have bonded over his guitar lessons, Maggie worries about Andy, even as she is struggling to resolve her suddenly resurrecting musical past, the demolished business in her present, and the complexity of a future with a lover who has suffered from traumatic brain injury since his bull riding days, his disapproving sister, and his Alzheimer’s-stricken mother. When Andy is arrested and charged, Maggie refuses to believe he can be guilty. She’s willing to put it all on the line to defend him, until the evidence she digs up mounts against the one person she can’t afford to lose faith in. Dead Pile is the third standalone book in a trilogy featuring sharp-tongued protagonist Maggie Killian from the addictive What Doesn’t Kill You romantic mystery series. If you like nerve-racking suspense, electric characters and relationships, and juicy plot twists, then you’ll love USA Today best-seller Pamela Fagan Hutchins’ Silver Falchion award-winning series.
©2019 Pamela Fagan Hutchins (P)2019 Pamela Fagan Hutchins
Sawbones
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When a killer threatens his family before their testimony in a capital murder trial, Patrick Flint will do anything to keep them safe. “Best book I’ve read in a long time!” (Kiersten Marquet, author of Three Reluctant Promises) A peaceful day of skiing for the family. The murder of a prominent judge’s wife. A witness becomes the next target: Thirteen-year-old Perry Flint. Patrick, his wife Susanne, and their kids head to the mountains for a day of skiing. At the lodge, 13-year-old Perry is the sole eye witness to the murder of a prominent judge’s wife, only days before the first capital murder trial in the state of Wyoming since its reinstatement by the US Supreme Court. Meanwhile, Susanne and Trish are gearing up to testify against ruthless killer Billy Kemecke at the trial, unless his criminal family can stop them first. With his family is threatened from all sides, Patrick Flint will do anything to keep them safe. Sawbones is the third book in the suspenseful Patrick Flint series of thrilling mysteries, a spin-off from the What Doesn't Kill You saga. Available in digital, print, and audiobook. If you like C.J. Box or Craig Johnson, you will love USA Today best seller Pamela Fagan Hutchins' Patrick Flint series. A former attorney, Pamela splits her time between Snoweresville, WY and Nowheresville, TX. Buy Sawbones for a pulse-pounding mystery today!
©2020 Pamela Fagan Hutchins (P)2020 Pamela Fagan Hutchins
Searching for Dime Box: A What Doesn't Kill You World Romantic Mystery
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A drug-dealing defendant. A hospitalized grandson. A deadly new strain of murder. After lonely months spent writing her true crime novel, Michele Lopez Hanson reconnects with her community by offering pro bono legal counsel. When an open-and-closed drug case takes an unexpected turn, she’s determined to shake off the rust and hit the books. But after a mysterious sickness sends her infant grandson to the hospital, she worries she may have bitten off more than she can chew. Searching for the source of his sickness, she discovers strange parallels between her legal case and the baby’s suspected poisoning. When Michelle's investigative attempts are blocked at every turn, she realizes the sinister cover-up goes far deeper than she had ever imagined. To save her grandson, she must connect the dots and expose the culprits before the deadly sickness claims another victim. Searching for Dime Box is the third stand-alone book in a trilogy featuring protagonist Michele Lopez Hanson from the addictive What Doesn’t Kill You romantic mystery series. If you like nerve-racking suspense, courtroom drama, and shocking plot twists, then you’ll love Pamela Fagan Hutchins’ award-winning series. Buy Searching for Dime Box to get your next fix of this addictive mystery series today!
©2018 Pamela Fagan Hutchins (P)2018 Pamela Fagan Hutchins
Buckle Bunny
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The last guy to call Maggie a buckle bunny didn't make his eight seconds. "Hutchins’ Maggie is an irresistible train wreck - you can’t help but turn the page to see what trouble she’ll get herself into next." (Robert Dugoni, author of My Sister's Grave) Buckle Bunny (Maggie Prequel, Book 1) Every cowboy at the Cheyenne Frontier Days rodeo is hot for rising music star Maggie Killian. But Maggie is laser-focused on her songs, her next show, and her future. She’s not going to be any cowboy’s buckle bunny. Down-and-out bull-rider Hank Sibley needs big money fast, so he strikes a deal with the devil to lose in Cheyenne for cash. When Hank reneges to get Maggie to go out with him, the only thing standing between him and deadly payback is a pissed-off, buckle-wearing Maggie. Buckle Bunny is the USA Today best-selling prequel novella to the trilogy featuring sharp-tongued protagonist Maggie Killian from the addictive What Doesn’t Kill You romantic mystery series. If you like nerve-racking suspense, electric characters and relationships, and juicy plot twists, then you’ll love USA Today best seller Pamela Fagan Hutchins’ Silver Falchion Award-winning series. See why Pamela wins contests and makes best seller lists. USA Today best seller.
©2018 Pamela Fagan Hutchins (P)2019 Pamela Fagan Hutchins
Snaggle Tooth
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When a plane crashes at the base of Black Tooth Mountain during a wicked summer storm, Patrick Flint’s moral compass leads him away from a trail ride with his family and to the wreckage in a search for survivors. But what he finds may teach him that not everything is what it seems, and not every life is worth saving. Snaggle Tooth is the fifth book in the Patrick Flint series of thrilling mysteries. 4.7-star series rating. If you like C.J. Box or Craig Johnson, you will love USA Today best-selling author Pamela Fagan Hutchins' Patrick Flint series. A former attorney, Pamela lives out adventures like the ones in her books - minus the murders - in an off-the-grid cabin with her husband on the face of Wyoming's Bighorn Mountains.
©2020 Pamela Fagan Hutchins (P)2021 Pamela Fagan Hutchins
Scapegoat
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Patrick Flint meets The River Wild. When his son is critically injured on a river trip, Patrick Flint finds himself in a race against time and a gang of outlaws who are determined the Flints won't make it out of Wyoming's Gros Ventre Wilderness alive. “Best book I’ve read in a long time!” (Kiersten Marquet, author of Reluctant Promises) 4.7-star series rating. Patrick Flint is looking forward to a week of fishing, hiking, canoeing, panning for gold, and camping on the Tukudika River with his family. It’s a chance to redeem himself after the disastrous hunting trip he dragged them on the year before, as well as to observe big horn sheep in the wild, experience the land the Mountain Shoshone called their home, and show his parents, brother Pete, and sister-in-law Vera the wonders of the Bridger-Teton National Forest. However, when a dead body floats up before they’ve even pushed off, it’s clear the trip is not off to an auspicious start. Things quickly go from bad to worse. Pete and Vera surprise them with their seven young children, and Susanne is unable to convince Patrick to cancel or even scale back the wilderness adventure. Accident-prone patriarch Joe Flint is vocally unhappy with every element of the expedition. Sixteen-year-old Trish takes a wrong turn when walking her five-year-old cousin Bunny back to camp, and the two become hopelessly lost in the wilderness. Then 13 year old Perry Flint topples from a waterfall and sustains a severe head injury. When Pete takes a short cut back to civilization to get help, he runs into outlaws who’d rather kill him than risk the location of their gold discovery being revealed. After Perry wakes from unconsciousness, Patrick is able to rescue Pete from the outlaws and get the family back to the river. But Joe must stay behind to search for his granddaughters, leaving the group short several experienced paddlers, with dangerous rapids ahead. With the attacking outlaws gaining on them, the remaining party of 12 braves whitewater, wildlife, their fears about the missing girls, a deteriorating family dynamic, and the ever-present threat of Wyoming’s mercurial weather in a race against time, as Perry’s condition rapidly deteriorates before their eyes. Scapegoat is the fourth book in the Patrick Flint series of thrilling mysteries, a spin-off from the What Doesn't Kill You saga. If you like C.J. Box or Craig Johnson, you will love USA Today best-selling author Pamela Fagan Hutchins' Patrick Flint series. A former attorney, Pamela splits her time between Snoweresville, WY and Nowheresville, TX.
©2020 Pamela Fagan Hutchins (P)2020 Pamela Fagan Hutchins
Snake Oil: A Patrick Flint Novel
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A doctor on a quest to make a difference. A flirty widow with a suspiciously dead husband. Stranded on the Wind River Indian Reservation in a deadly blizzard, Patrick Flint is about to figure out just how much of an outsider he really is. Patrick Flint feels a calling to volunteer at the impoverished Indian Health Services clinic on the Wind River Reservation that he can't completely explain. His wife Susanne usually supports him, but her family is coming for their first Wyoming visit, 12-year-old Perry is stir crazy and looking for trouble, teenager Trish is dangerously in love, and Suzanne and Patrick are in the final stages of negotiations on their dream house. The Christmas holidays are not a convenient time for him to be gone, or to be out of communication, which is exactly what happens when a series of blizzards knocks out power and phone lines all over the region. When Patrick arrives in Fort Washakie to a flirty reception from the young clinic manager, Constance, he discovers Big Mike Teton, a tribal council member, dead in the parking lot. The circumstances point toward poisoning, but local law enforcement pooh-poohs that idea the second Patrick brings it up. So does Big Mike's widow—none other than the lovely Constance. Stranded in the storm, Patrick follows his heart and the medical evidence in his quest to figure out what killed Big Mike. No one on the reservation seems happy about his involvement. But they aren't half as unhappy with him as Susanne is back in Buffalo when their realtor calls with a make-or-break counteroffer on the house, and she still can't reach him after two days of radio silence. As Patrick's investigation begins to ruffle the wrong feathers, a frantic Susanne loads up the kids and her extended family for a trek across Wyoming to roust her husband, only to discover she's not the only woman with a strong interest in the good doctor.
©2019 Pamela Fagan Hutchins (P)2019 Pamela Fagan Hutchins