A Calculated Risk, A Deena Powers Mystery

There’s such a great sense of elation and relief when a book you’ve been working on for two years is finally finished and published. On the other hand, it’s like saying goodbye to your neighbor. The people I’ve created are as real to me as the people next door. In most cases, I know the characters better. And I like them, even those with serious flaws.

A Calculated Risk is available on Amazon right now, but will soon be available as an e-book.

Marriage and motherhood aren’t enough for Deena Powers. Anxious to re-establish herself as a capable professional investigator, she opens an agency in Four Creeks where she now lives with her husband, Avis “Buzz” Walker.

One of her first cases is for the Grimes Corporation, a property line dispute, simple enough, but when the CEO is killed in a plane crash, she soon learns that farming is not a tame business. While juggling life as a working mother, she finds herself drawn into the turmoil within the grieving family.

To complicate matters, a shadow from her past reemerges, posing a threat to her and her family, and she is forced to summon the courage to do the unthinkable.