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Reef Runner
Patty O'Donnell has everything she could want in life--a loving husband, a job she enjoys, and a year-old daughter she adores. An enemy from the past needs to make a lot of money quickly and believes he can use Patty's skills and talents. Forced to choose between life as his slave and her daughter's safety, Patty sacrifices her own future to save her child.
Every step takes Patty deeper into a world of theft and deception. A scam on the Great Barrier Reef nets two very different results--financial gain, and the unexpected attention of a dangerous crime boss, who offers them both a choice. Serve him, or die.
Reviewer: PaulineMichael
Review: Jun 14, 2011
Just when you think there is no possible way Patty O'Donnell can land into bigger trouble than her last adventure Pepper Smith proves you wrong. This is another enjoyable cozy mystery right in line with the previous Patty books. Pepper Smith once again takes readers to a beautiful and exotic location. The romance is not a key element in this story as the relationship between Patty and her husband is already f
Rio Star
Patty O’Donnell, pregnant wife of an Irish jockey and a trainer in her own right, finds both her career and her baby’s life in jeopardy when she’s abducted and forced by a pair of con men to help in a racing scam in Argentina. Patty wants nothing to do with it—until she understands the reason for it, and the quest becomes her own.
At stake is a million dollar bet and long-delayed revenge. The con men’s target is a dangerous man who has killed in the past and wouldn’t hesitate to kill again. A man from whom no one is safe, either in the crowded city of Buenos Aires or on the vast sweep of the Argentine pampas.
Blood Money
# of pages: 215 pages
Genre: Historical mystery
When Patty O’Donnell married her Irish sweetheart and moved from America to her husband’s small home town on the Irish seacoast, the most dangerous things she had to deal with were the half-ton racehorses in her father-in-law’s stables. But when she and her husband return from a late night out to find their house being searched, she discovers there are far worse things lurking in her bucolic surroundings than temperamental Thoroughbreds.
The teenage son of a late family friend brings proof of a long forgotten debt owed by the O’Donnells, part of a cargo lost in a shipwreck over a century and a half ago. He wants the cargo salvaged, and quickly, so he can help his mother free herself from her abusive second husband. The O’Donnells are willing, but the search and salvage mission puts them square in the sights of modern-day pirates, who want the salvage for themselves.
Suddenly, Patty finds herself hunted and in a fight for her life, where yielding to panic means a swift and ugly death.
Reviewer: Bassetbarb
Review: Jun 23, 2010
Genre(s): Historical Romance, Suspense
Blood Money's first line is, 'The thief had been hiding in our house for nearly a week before anyone realized he was there.'
With that first line Pepper Smith had me. Right away we are involved in a search to find the person hiding in the house. And when found we step into a suspense tale that truly satisfies.
The story starts in lush Ireland where we meet the O’Donnell’s, Patty, Micheal, Se
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