Deadly Ruse
A Mac McClellan Mystery
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- $9.99
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
Mac’s girlfriend, Kate Bell, thinks she’s seen a ghost. Wes Harrison, Kate’s former boyfriend, supposedly perished twelve years ago in a boating accident. But now she swears a man she spotted in a crowded theater lobby is Wes. Mac has his doubts--it was only a fleeting glimpse. But to calm her shattered nerves, he starts making inquiries. A clue leads him from his home in St. George, Florida, to a Texas orphanage. There he uncovers startling information that turns both his and Kate’s world upside-down. Diamond smuggling, sex, deceit, and murder are just part of the twisted tale that emerges from Kate’s earlier life. Using wit, grit, and the ingrained military training of a former Marine, Mac starts to fit the pieces of this scrambled puzzle together. Further clues point to the Palmetto Royale Casino and Resort near St. George. He and Kate discover that the casino is a front for big drug deals. When they barely escape a murder attempt, Mac knows he’s on the right track. But he better play his cards right–because losing this high-stakes game could cost him his life.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The relationship between former Marine Mac McClellan, who's working on earning his PI license, and his girlfriend, Kate Bell, is at stake in Helms's entertaining sequel to 2013's Deadly Catch. On their way home from the movie theater in St. George, Fla., Kate is shocked to spot her old boyfriend Wes Harrison, who supposedly drowned with two other friends in a boating accident years earlier. While the face looks different, the mismatched blue-and-brown eyes are unmistakable. The skeptical Mac reluctantly agrees to investigate, and soon discovers that Wes's backstory and that of his friends don't add up. After Wes shows up in the FBI's National Crime database as Weston Russell Harrison, on which he's listed as the leader of a gang of upper middle-class teens in California, Mac dives into the case. Helms expertly steers the elaborate plot even as the stolen identities, suspicious missionaries, and diamond smuggling stretch credulity.
