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"In a fast-paced race to catch a serial killer… I could not put the book down till the final word. I stayed up all night. It is a nail-biting thriller!" — Kim Zoby, Readers' Favorite ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
"Wiltzen has hit a home run with his latest effort!" — Phillip Zozzaro, US Review of Books
Mabel Davison runs a struggling motel and diner while raising two small boys in a mountain town where many hate her for what she's done.
Her search for missing girls had caused the demise of a local drug ring and the loss of gang money spent in town, and now she's shunned.
Desperate to rekindle fractured friendships, she is surprised one night by an ex-lover showing up on her porch, setting into motion events that could either unite her family or tear it apart.
Encouraged to restart her missing girls' cold case, she gets nowhere fast until she desperately questions a gang member she helped put in prison. His sordid tale is more lies and threats than truth. But the clues he gives point to her past, and she uncovers to her horror, a serial killer on the hunt.
And it could be a man she knows.
Will she be the killer’s next target?
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Mabel is a hard-working single mom running a motel and diner in a picturesque mountain town. But when she finds herself entangled in a missing girls' cold case, she struggles to find time for her boys — Hector, a twelve-year-old troublemaker like his absentee father, and Fred, a shy, impressionable nine-year-old — and has to rely on her orphaned, seventeen-year-old niece, Kerry, to watch them.
But when the boys wake up one Sunday morning to find Kerry missing, they don't bother their busy, stressed-out mom: they take it upon themselves to find her.
Armed only with a hammer and a clue about where Kerry might be, they embark on an adventurous search. But this town is not for the faint of heart; it has real monsters, too.
The non-spoiler story links to Chapters 28-31 of Missed Me
Start with Heart of a Runaway Girl
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Critics hail this heart-stopping historical mystery AN ABSOLUTE GEM! "Fantastic.. easy-to-get-lost-in... new mystery series!" Goodreads
In this original mystery, diner owner Mabel Davison cheerfully serves coffee and pie while single-handedly raising her two young boys in the sleepy mountain town of Blue River. Her quiet routine gets rocked when a teen girl, who had passed through the diner, is murdered and her body dumped at a local sawmill. Sheriff Dan Gibson looks no further than the teen's black boyfriend, Winston Washington, a known drug dealer. Mabel fears Dan's only trying to keep the peace in a town rife with racism, and her big heart won't let that stand. He warns her to stop digging, too afraid to catch the attention of a local drug lord who rules this land with an iron hand.
But as Mabel's unlikely investigation draws sinister interest from the gang, the killer gets closer too…
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"Wiltzen crafts another sensational story!" Goodreads
Big-hearted Mabel Davison runs a busy highway motel and diner owner serving coffee and pie in the small mountain town of Blue River. Hands full as a single parent to two rambunctious boys and her orphaned niece, she isn't looking for more investigating to do.
But a call from a lawyer friend shatters the calm.
A distraught single mother is going to jail for assaulting police officers who don't believe that a sinister man had abducted her drug-addicted daughter.
As Mabel takes on the case, she lands in the crosshairs of the local drug lord, Karl Larson. Sheriff Dan Gibson warns her that with the Drug Enforcement Agency on the prowl, Larson can't afford anyone poking around. And with the town on Larson's payroll, the fragile truce built by turning a blind eye will descend into terrible violence.
As pressure mounts to force Mabel off the case, her investigation quickly falters, and then her worst nightmares come true — her niece goes missing too.
"A worthy sequel to an amazing debut novel!" NetGalley
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