Relative Malice by Marla Madison
Detective Kendall Halsrud is a woman easily identified with. As the reader first meets Kendall, she’s investigating the scene of a home invasion that has left an entire family dead and a baby missing.
Kendall’s car is stuffed with all her worldly goods after being tossed out by a disgruntled roommate. She takes an apartment across the hall from a young girl with albinism who does card readings to earn extra money. Brynn, who is also a hacker, helps Kendall in her search for the missing child everyone else believes is dead.
Kendall’s desperate search to find the child derails when a man is arrested for murdering the family and claims that he killed the baby. Suspecting he had an accomplice, she isn’t convinced. Unable to give up on the baby, Kendall puts her career and her own life at risk, unearthing deadly family secrets in pursuit of the truth.
The suspense builds as Kendall tries to stop a killer before he strikes again. Get your copy of this page-turner today!
Meet the author of the Detective Kendall Halsrud Series, Marla Madison:
Marla Madison is the author of two suspense series. She’s Not There is her debut suspense novel and is the first book of the TJ Peacock and Lisa Rayburn series.TRESPASS, is the second and Marla’s next novel will be the third of that series.
Relative Malice, her second book begins the Detective Kendall Halsrud series. Iced Malice, is the second book of that series.
Marla is a retired Federal Mediator who works as an Arbitrator. She lives on Prairie Lake in Northwestern Wisconsin with her significant other, Terry, a beloved shelter dog, Skygge, and Poncho, an opinionated feline from the same shelter.
Also an avid reader of suspense, some of Marla’s favorite authors are Tana French, Lisa Gardner, Jeffrey Deaver, Jonathan Kellerman, James Patterson, Tess Gerritson, and Tami Hoag.
When not reading or writing, Marla enjoys hanging out with other area authors, playing duplicate bridge, golfing, and going on long walks with her dog.
Visit her website: http://marlamadison.blogspot.com
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D. L. ORTON lives in the foothills of Colorado where she and her husband are raising three boys, a golden retriever, two Siberian cats, and an extremely long-lived triops. Her future plans include completing the books in the BETWEEN TWO EVILS SERIES followed by an extended vacation on a remote tropical island (with a Starbucks). When she’s not writing, playing tennis, or helping with algebra, she’s building a time machine so that someone can go back and do the laundry.
Aya Walksfar grew up amid poverty and violence in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Taught to read and write before the age of six, she spent many days ensconced between the crammed shelves of Carnegie Library. Aya published her first articles at the age of fourteen and since then has written and published articles, poems, short stories and ten novels.
Vegard Svingen grew up in the deep, mysterious forests east in Norway, and developed from early on an awareness for worlds both visible and invisible. He daily ponders upon the question “how far is infinity?” Besides that, he is an award-winning writer and TV producer who has developed, co-written and directed some of the biggest TV successes in Norway for both children and adults. Vegard currently lives in Oslo (Norway).
Karen Baney, in addition to writing Christian historical fiction and contemporary romance novels, works as a Software Engineer. Spending over twenty years as an avid fan of both genres, Karen loves writing stories set in Arizona.