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STEAL AWAY . . . Linda Hall
Multnomah Publishers

Coming this May—a new series. STEAL AWAY, the first book featuring Private Investigator Teri Blake-Addison, is well on its way to captivating the audience of mystery lovers!

In STEAL AWAY, Teri enjoys her career as a PI, her top priority being finding missing people. Well-known minister, Dr. Carl Houseman, hires her to find out what really happened to his wife, Ellen, five years ago. Now, about to be married again, Carl wants to put the past to rest, but first he must find out the truth. Did Ellen really die in the cold Atlantic waters, if so, why does he feel she is still alive?

During the investigation, Teri learns that Ellen spent two weeks each year away from their Philadelphia home, staying with friends in Maine. An excellent sailor, it was never believed by the Maine townspeople that Ellen had died in a boating accident—attacked by pirates, terrorists, anything, but never just a silly mistake. Teri is surprised to discover the Houseman family doesn’t know much about Ellen’s passion for boating or her friends in Maine, with exception of their youngest son, Brent. But Brent disappeared shortly after his mother’s alleged death. Does he know something that would help this case, or is the rumor true that Brent was very unhappy being in the limelight as a preacher’s son and ran away? Could this be Ellen's fate as well?

Information found in Ellen’s scrapbook sets the course Teri follows, beginning with a trip to Maine. A talkative bed-and-breakfast owner, the boat mechanic, an old-lady recluse living in the lighthouse, as well as many folktales, lead Teri to shocking discoveries. When a murder takes place to hide the evidence she has stumbled on, Teri realizes that more is at stake than the life of an unhappy minister’s wife.

STEAL AWAY captured my interest in the first few lines and kept it that way until the end. A gifted writer, Linda Hall shared bits and pieces of the STEAL AWAY puzzle in their due time, clues which kept me turning the pages. I found myself wanting to get to the end as fast as I could, but at the same time not wanting the story to end. As a reviewer, there is so much to tell regarding this story, and so much I have left out, but I didn’t want to enlighten you to any of the secrets leading to “What really happened to Ellen?”

A great mystery, I highly recommend STEAL AWAY as a captivating and exciting read, and will find it hard to wait until November for the second in the Teri Blake-Addison series entitled Chat Room. “May 2003., 290 pp., $11.99., ISBN: 1-59052-072-6.”

Janie Orman

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