I curse the day I lost you. I curse the day I had to go on the hunt to replace you. I pluck a gardenia from the vase and head toward her. She cringes at my approach, whispers, “Please don’t hurt me.” That’s when I know I will. I have to. A serial killer is taking young women on the Gulf Coast, a hurricane is coming, and Alice faces the most heartbreaking and dangerous Search and Rescue mission of her career. Ordinary Alice Logan Jones—a former recluse living alone with Thunder, her SAR dog—has upended her life. Her ex-husband and his little girl came to her house to recover from tragedy, and they are still with her. Now, she’s planning a small Fourth of July party with her family and her eccentric neighbors, Dudley and Madeline. It's going to be the best day of her life… and the worst. Alice’s bold, beautiful twin, Mary Jane Logan, will miss the party. She and a colleague are attending a medical convention on the Gulf Coast. It’s a much-needed getaway for the over-worked doctor who plans to combine business with a quest to discover her deceased mother’s mysterious past. Her search leads her into a trap… and a deadly cat and mouse game with the elusive kidnapper/killer known as the July Lover. With few clues and a long list of suspects, Alice and Dudley search for the evil killer who has evaded the law for six years. Can they survive a dangerous search with the famous SAR dog in the middle of a hurricane and rescue his remaining victims before he kills them all?
Author
Peggy Webb is a USA Today Bestselling author from Mississippi. She has written 70 novels, 200 magazine humor columns, 2 screenplays. Called a "comedic genius" by her peers, she writes romantic comedy and the hilarious Southern Cousins Mysteries as Peggy Webb. She writes literary fiction under the pen names Anna Michaels and Elaine Hussey. Pat Conroy calls her literary work "astonishing" and Kathie Fong Yoneda labels it "brilliant." The author calls The Sweetest Hallelujah,written as Elaine Hussey, "the best book I've ever written." Advance reveiwers say "if you can buy only one book, make it The Sweetest Hallelujah." Learn more at www.elainehussey.com. An actress and musician as well as a writer, Peggy composed the blues lyrics that appear throughout The Sweetest Hallelujah. She has been in many stage plays at her local community theater and says the role she enjoyed most was the Witch in "The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe." "I was playing against type," she says. :) Peggy loves gardening, playing piano, singing in her church choir, hanging out on her front porch with friends and owning dogs "who think they are the boss." She considers her greastest accomplishment "raising two wonderful children who are good people, good citizens and good parents." She says, "I adore my four grandchildren who call me Gigi. Thank goodness, the feeling is mutual." Series: * Westmoreland Diaries * A Southern Cousins Mystery
