No Rest for the Wicked - Reed, Martha
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When state archaeologists lift the lid on a suspicious steamer trunk buried in the Madaket landfill, Detective John Jarad's world explodes. The trunk's contents reactivate intense interest in Nantucket's most notorious cold case crime, the Baby Alice Spenser kidnapping in 1921.Sarah Jarad has a slightly different life focus. Halfway through a twin pregnancy, Sarah can't shake the feeling that she's being watched. She'd like to blame her paranoia on raging hormones, but that doesn't ring true. Sarah fears that her control freak ex-fiancée Mason has finally tracked her down, and that Mason is on…mehr

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When state archaeologists lift the lid on a suspicious steamer trunk buried in the Madaket landfill, Detective John Jarad's world explodes. The trunk's contents reactivate intense interest in Nantucket's most notorious cold case crime, the Baby Alice Spenser kidnapping in 1921.Sarah Jarad has a slightly different life focus. Halfway through a twin pregnancy, Sarah can't shake the feeling that she's being watched. She'd like to blame her paranoia on raging hormones, but that doesn't ring true. Sarah fears that her control freak ex-fiancée Mason has finally tracked her down, and that Mason is on Nantucket, plotting revenge.As John pursues the Baby Alice investigation, myriad family scandals emerge from the Spenser's privileged and gilded past. Events flare white-hot when a copycat criminal snatches a second child. John and Sarah must race against the clock to unmask the kidnapper and expose these modern day threats.Offering an array of colorful island characters and an intricate plot filled with surprising twists and reveals, NO REST FOR THE WICKED promises to be the perfect summer beach read.
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Martha Reed is relentlessly fascinated by the question of what makes people tick. She is the award-winning author of the John and Sarah Jarad Nantucket Mystery series. Book One, THE CHOKING GAME, was a 2015 Killer Nashville Silver Falchion nominee for Best Novel/Traditional Mystery. Book Two, THE NATURE OF THE GRAVE, won an Independent Publisher (IPPY) Honorable Mention for Mid-Atlantic Best Regional Fiction. Book Three, NO REST FOR THE WICKED launched in February, 2017. Martha's short work has appeared in Pearl, Spinetingler, Mysterical-e, and in Mystery Readers Journal. Her story STRANGLER FIG appeared in LUCKY CHARMS: 12 Crime Tales, an anthology produced by the Pittsburgh chapter of Sisters in Crime, Inc. (SinC). Martha also recently served a four-year term as the National Chapter Liaison for SinC. Follow her on Facebook and Twitter @ReedMartha or visit her online at reedmenow.com.