As Bethany protects Seth, and the threats against his life escalate, affection grows between them. #newrelease #detective #romance #mystery #teaser

 

Bethany Snow works for the Black Detective Agency alongside her brother Jake. In this case, they’re assigned to protect movie star, Seth Carbery. He’s receiving threatening letters and the detectives need to find the perpetrator fast as the bizarre case takes some curious twists and turns.

As Bethany protects Seth, and the threats against his life escalate, affection grows between them.

Detective mystery and sweet romance.

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A young man with his long hair held back by a red, polka dot Alice band came to Seth at a run. “Your black outfit is in the first cubicle, Seth.”

He looked at Bethany. “Sorry, I have no instructions for you.” He glanced around seemingly about to get help for her.

“No, no, it’s okay I’m not an actor.” Bethany fished her pass out of her pocket and waved it at him.

The young man nodded, and walked off.

Bethany watched him go, his all-in-one denim jump suit sagging over his skinny ass. She looked around. In that short space of time, Seth had vanished. Where is he? Crap, if anyone really wants to harm him they could easily do it while I gaze about.

Suddenly the exact words of the last letter sent to Seth and Diane popped into her head. ‘You are close to the end. I will get you when you least expect it’. Menacing enough, but for them both to get it, and for them to have no connection with each other was weird. She looked along the side of the marquee where a rail had been set up and curtains on silver rings divided this area into what the young wardrobe assistant had referred to as cubicles.

Seth appeared from behind a curtain close by.

Relief brought a smile to Bethany’s face.

He was dressed head to foot in black. His knee length boots and even his weapon scabbard were black. He walked quickly to her.

She shook her head. “Seth, your eyes are...”

He nodded and smiled so that she needn’t finish speaking.

“Green contacts—just put them in, well I didn’t Paul did. I can’t do it.” He grinned, and waved a hand at an older man carrying a white tray with little plastic boxes on there, and small bottles rattling around who was now going into another cubicle. A wad of disposable gloves was sticking out of his back pocket.

Bethany smiled. “It’s like a factory, put the person in one end, another comes out at the end of the line.”

Seth nodded. “Yeah, okay, I’m reporting to the assistant director now, and that’s it, Bethany, you won’t be able to come on set with me. I’m in the main castle, and you’ll be left over fifty yards away.”

Bethany nodded, but worry rushed over her. “Well, I better get as close as I can.” 

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Mystery Detective, Police Procedural, Crime, Suspense

Date Published: Between 2011-2019

Publisher: Hibbert & Stiles Publishing Inc.

Murder. Investigation. The pursuit of justice. Do you love trying to figure out whodunit? How about investigating alongside police detectives from the crime scene to the forensics lab and everywhere in between? Do you love a strong female lead? Then I invite you to meet Detective Madison Knight as she solves murders with her male partner, utilizing good old-fashioned investigative work aided by modern technology.

This is the perfect book series for fans of James Patterson, Michael Connelly, and JD Robb to name a few. This series is also bound to entertain those who enjoy Law & Order, CSI, Blue Bloods, Rizzoli & Isles, Women’s Murder Club, and Hawaii Five-O.

Read in any order or follow the series from the beginning: Ties That Bind, Justified, Sacrifice, Found Innocent, Just Cause, Deadly Impulse, In the Line of Duty, Power Struggle, Shades of Justice, Life Sentence (Bonus Prequel).

Meet today’s guest, Carolyn Arnold.

She is an international bestselling and award-winning author, as well as a speaker, teacher, and inspirational mentor. She has four continuing fiction series and has written nearly thirty books. Both her female detective and FBI profiler series have been praised by those in law enforcement as being accurate and entertaining, leading her to adopt the trademark, POLICE PROCEDURALS RESPECTED BY LAW ENFORCEMENT™.

Today, she answers a few questions for us and gives us insight into her life and journey as a mystery author.

Have you ever been on a manhunt or at the scene where a dead body was found?
I took part in my local police department’s Citizen’s Academy. As part of this, I received an inside look at seventeen divisions over a ten-week period. As an added benefit, each student was afforded a ride-along. And mine… Well, I went on the perfect one for a crime writer.

My ride-along actually started out with a manhunt. I experienced the excitement of wanting to find the guy and found myself scrutinizing every male I spotted in the area just to make sure he wasn’t the one we were after. Unfortunately, the search moved to the downtown area from the eastern end of the city where the hunt had begun, and the sergeant signed off the investigation. By the end of my ride-along, about five hours later, the man still hadn’t been found.

After the sergeant left the investigation, he turned to me as he was driving and asked if I had ever seen a dead body. I told him I had at memorials and funerals and then asked why. I soon found out that our next stop involved one.

I figured I’d catch a glimpse of the deceased under a tarp or being wheeled away, but I got far more than that. I received a front-row seat to a death investigation. For hours, the sergeant and I were mere feet away from the body. I witnessed firsthand how it changed color over time, but I also found that I went into detective-mode. The forensic identification unit—essentially CSIs—was called in and arrived with collection kits. The team members gloved up, snapped photographs, took fingerprints from the deceased, and more.

The entire time that I was on scene, I noticed myself going into a detached state—the result of adrenaline. Later that evening, it began to sink in that I had spent hours with a dead body, and I was nauseated. As more time passed, I became weepy as it sank in that the deceased had been a husband, a father, a lover, a friend…a person. That night I dreamed about the man. It wasn’t a nightmare, but I was an officer trying to figure out what had happened to him.

I couldn’t imagine returning to the field the next day and having a similar experience or witnessing something even worse, like a violent murder scene or that of a fatal car accident.

What do members of law enforcement say about your books?
Many testimonials attest that I am pleasing readers in law enforcement. They love that my mysteries are accurate in that regard, and they view that alone as a sign of my respect for them.


What did you do before you became a bestselling author?
For a living, I worked in accounts receivable for a few different companies collecting from businesses. Yet, despite working full time, in 2006 I was reunited with writing. I wrote every chance I got—before work, on lunch breaks, after work, on the weekends. I became so focused on writing and the publishing world that hardly a day went by without them being a part of my life, and since the summer of 2014, I’ve been a full-time author.

How do you know so much about what criminals think?
I can’t answer that without incriminating myself… Just kidding.

Everyone has what we call a “dark side.” In writing these books, I suppose you could say I tap into this side of my psyche. Whatever I can scheme up is possible, and I write that which scares and excites me.

When did you know that you had hit the big time with your books?
When I got to say good-bye to my day job! Even before I fully resigned, I had cut back a five-day a week job to four days, then to three. It got to the point, though, that I loathed going in for that many days, and I knew it was time to make the move and become a full-time author. That was in the summer of 2014. Since then, I incorporated my own publishing company in the summer of 2015, and, at the start of 2016, my husband joined me there full time.

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About the Author

CAROLYN ARNOLD is an international bestselling and award-winning author, as well as a speaker, teacher, and inspirational mentor. She has four continuing fiction series—Detective Madison Knight, Brandon Fisher FBI, McKinley Mysteries, and Matthew Connor Adventures—and has written nearly thirty books. Her genre diversity offers her readers everything from cozy to hard-boiled mysteries, and thrillers to action adventures.

Both her female detective and FBI profiler series have been praised by those in law enforcement as being accurate and entertaining, leading her to adopt the trademark: POLICE PROCEDURALS RESPECTED BY LAW ENFORCEMENT™.

Carolyn was born in a small town and enjoys spending time outdoors, but she also loves the lights of a big city. Grounded by her roots and lifted by her dreams, her overactive imagination insists that she tell her stories. Her intention is to touch the hearts of millions with her books, to entertain, inspire, and empower.

She currently lives in London, Ontario, with her husband and beagle and is a member of Crime Writers of Canada and Sisters in Crime.

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