Bøger af Valerie Davisson

Following the success of In Plain Sight, Valerie Davisson delivers another fast-paced, thrilling mystery set on the Oregon coast. This time, the stakes for Logan McKenna have never been higher.Commercial crabbing is a dangerous business. Add murder to the mix and you wind up with at least one dead body and impossibly tangled threads of fact and fiction for Logan to unravel to find the truth. The more she learns, the less she knows. No one is as they seem.Sam asks her to help defend a friend, but is he innocent? With more than one life at risk, she can't give up. Pulling out all the stops, Logan inches closer and closer to the truth. But can she catch the killer before her own life is ripped away?One thing's for sure. Logan will never let them get away with murder.If you are a fan of suspenseful mysteries with strong female protagonists like those from Elly Griffiths, Vivian Barz, Nevada Barr, J. A. Jance, Louise Penny, Michael Conneally, James Patterson, Sue Grafton, or Alexander McCall Smith, you won't want to miss Valerie Davisson's Logan McKenna Mystery series!

Two half-siblings lay claim to the same stretch of gorgous, coastal property. Other players have their own ideas for Lot 429. Some of them lead to murder.It's summer, and with a new job, a new love, and plenty of time for her music, life couldn't be better for Logan McKenna. She and her daughter, Amy, even rescue an orphaned sea otter pup and help nurse it back to health at Jasper's new Sea Otter Center.But powerful storm clouds soon begin to swirl around the center, threatening the lives of all who enter it. More than one person lays claim to the property and all want it badly-but for very different reasons.The murder of someone close to Logan soon exposes deep layers of resentment, greed, and painful, personal loss. Only love, trust, and community will have any chance of stopping the killer, before more lives, including Logan's own, are lost.Fans of J.A. Jance, Louise Penny, Elly Griffiths, James Patterson, Michael Conneally, Sue Grafton, C. J. Box, and Alexander McCall Smith will love fiercely independent and loyal Logan McKenna! Click the Buy button to start reading now.

There's a killer on the loose in Portland and no one is safe. Blocked at every turn, newly widowed Logan McKenna must uncover the truth before more innocent lives are lost.It's been two years since the fatal car accident that changed Logan's life forever. She's recovered most of her health, forged a new career, and even ventured into a new relationship. Combining business and hopefully pleasure, she's enjoying a much-deserved trip to Portland, OR. When a violent explosion destroys a Vietnamese food truck just steps away from Logan's downtown hotel, she is horrified to realize she not only knows the owner, but the elderly woman who was trapped inside and died in the blaze.The police suspect all the wrong people, including Logan's new friend, Thanh, the owner of the food truck, and a Vietnam vet just getting his life back together. Accident, arson, or murder? What was the motive? And who was the intended victim?While peeling back layers of secrets and lies to bring long-buried truths to light, Logan's personal life suffers an explosion of its own, threatening to derail her new and still fragile relationship.With no authority or access to the police investigation, Logan must decide who to trust, while racing to find the real killer before more innocent lives are destroyed.Fans of Elly Griffiths, Nevada Barr, J.A. Jance, Louise Penny, Michael Connelly, James Patterson, Sue Grafton, C.J. Box, Vivian Barz, and Alexander McCall Smith will love fiercely independent and loyal Logan McKenna!

Viciously attacked by an unknown assailant, Logan's new neighbor, a young mother, clings to life in the ICU, her three-year-old daughter the only witness to the attack. Logan soon discovers her friend isn't who she said she was. Without any ID, the police investigation stalls. Logan holds the only clue, but has no idea what it means or how dangerous it is. That's never stopped her before, but this time her drive to uncover the truth draws the killer towards her. Before she realizes the danger, Logan's in so deep, she may never be able to claw her way out.Fans of J.A. Jance, Elly Griffiths, Louise Penny, C.J. Box, James Patterson, Nevada Barr, Sue Grafton, and Alexander McCall Smith will love Davisson's fiercely independent and loyal Logan McKenna.

Logan loses it all. Then her best friend's charged with murder. Time's running out and a deranged killer wants her dead.In the first novel of Davisson's thrilling, best-selling series, Logan loses her husband, her illusions, the company they built together, her music, and now, probably her job.But when a young glassblower is brutally killed at the local arts festival and her good friend, Thomas Delgado, a Native American artist, is accused of the crime, Logan drops everything to come to his defense.It doesn't help that Thomas is refusing to defend himself. As Logan struggles to maintain her still tenuous hold on her new life, she delves into the dangerous world of glassblowing in order to clear her friend's name. The deeper Logan digs, the more secrets she unearths, and the more unhinged the real killer becomes. Logan must find the truth before they kill again.If you enjoy books by Elly Griffiths, Vivian Barz, Nevada Barr, J. A. Jance, Louise Penny, Michael Conneally, James Patterson, Sue Grafton, William Kent Kreuger, or Alexander McCall Smith, you will love fiercely independent and loyal Logan McKenna!Buy Shattered today and start reading this great book now!

One of the last to see a charter boat captain alive makes Logan a suspect...and the killer's next target.During the first vacation she's taken in years, Logan looks forward to sharing the beauty of the Oregon coast with Ben and her family. They quickly immerse themselves in summer fun. Ocean walks, caramel corn by the fire, a visit to the aquarium, a charter boat fishing trip, and to top it off, tickets for Logan and Ben to an amazing, in-home classical music concert featuring visiting musicians from China.But within days, Logan finds herself inexorably dragged into a homicide investigation-as a possible suspect! While reeling from that discovery, Logan is forced to face a ghost from her past and make a thorny, personal decision that will change everyone's lives, including her brother, Rick's.Weaving themes of loss, healing, forgiveness, family, love, and community, Davisson's characters all seek a safe harbor, but not all of them find one.Fans of J.A Jance, Louise Penny, Elly Griffiths, Nevada Barr, Sue Grafton, C.J. Box, William Kent Krueger, James Patterson, or Alexander McCall Smith will love fiercely independent and loyal Logan McKenna!

The Cascades Raptor Center is filled with natural killers. One of them is human.Logan McKenna is enjoying her new life, including marrying her long-time love, Ben, playing her cherished violin, Bella, and taking long, morning runs on the magnificent Oregon coast. Fascinated by the abundance of owls, eagles, and hawks she encounters, Logan volunteers at a wildlife rescue center, where she becomes immersed in the world of raptors and those who fight for these fierce, wild creatures.But when Logan finds a coworker dead on the floor in one of the hospital wards, the peaceful forest becomes a scene of tragedy-and maybe murder. There are no signs of a violent struggle, but the office next door has been vandalized and the cause of death remains unclear. Even the official autopsy finds no evidence of homicide, but Logan thinks things just don't add up.When the police investigation stalls, Logan takes matters into her own hands. With the help of two local friends, she sets out to uncover the killer. The deeper she digs, the more the killer's attention turns chillingly towards Logan.Racing against time, Logan must use all her skills and strength to find the truth and stop the killer, before she becomes prey and is silenced forever.In Plain Sight is an immersive mystery and a satisfying, multi-layered story about friendship and trusting your instincts, even if-especially if-you're not sure where they will lead.

One murder. Four suspects. Endless motives. Can Logan untangle a web of lies before the bodies start piling up?Logan McKenna is troubled by good news. After accepting her long-time boyfriend's proposal, the talented musician worries her unexpectedly profitable viral music video will throw their happy relationship out of whack. Needing space to clear her head, she travels to Oregon for a regular consulting gig...and stumbles onto a dead body.Determined to protect her friends who are prime suspects in the case, Logan puts her own life on hold and chases the truth. But with the police distracted by festering secrets and false accusations, the musician-turned-investigator fears even her well-honed instincts can't safeguard the innocent.Will Logan's unflinching loyalty put a murderer behind bars or trigger another killing?Whisper Creek is the thrilling seventh book in the Logan McKenna Mystery series. If you like dynamic heroines, page-turning suspense, and satisfying twist endings, then you'll love Valerie Davisson's danger-laden tale.

A violent murder during the rumrunning days of Prohibition set two families on very different paths. In 2020, when a Collins is killed and an Ellis is accused, Logan has to dig through the tangle of secrets and lies binding the two families together to uncover the truth before the killer takes another life. . .Things are changing for Logan McKenna. She's buying a fixer-upper with Ben on the Oregon coast and is about to meet her half-sister, Olivia, who, until last year, she didn't know existed. Both acts require huge leaps of faith, something Logan is often short on. But the remodel is going smoothly and Logan begins to relax and even look forward to the upcoming visit with Olivia.Before Logan gets the chance to meet her new sibling, a young woman, Charlotte 'Charlie' Collins, is found dead-drowned in the pool of The Collins, her family's landmark Depoe Bay hotel.Was this a horrible accident, or murder? Emerging details are murky. Logan and Olivia soon find themselves inexorably drawn into what is starting to look like a homicide investigation. With no hard evidence, the police are focusing solely on Wade Ellis, Charlie's fiance, who had means and opportunity, and according to at least one person, plenty of motive and absolutely no alibi.In Lies That Bind, Davisson explores themes of mental illness, jealousy, shame, and guilt as well as the redeeming power of love, trust and community. What makes a murderer? Are killers born or bred? One thing's for certain, secrets never stay that way and only love can heal.If you enjoy Nevada Barr's Anna Pigeon, J. A. Jance's Joanna Brady or Ali Reynolds, Sue Grafton's Kinsey Milhone, William Kent Kreuger's Cork O'Connor, or Elly Griffith's Ruth Galloway, you'll love Davisson's Logan McKenna!