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Under a Broken Sky: A Novel Kindle Edition
He can see her.
One year into her prized role as the youngest ethics investigator in California's history, Emma suspects corruption in the state's billion dollar expansion to train travel. That unwittingly puts her on a killer's trail - a killer who will do anything to reach his illicit million dollar payday, including personally eliminating Emma Lawson as a threat.
Detective Alibi Morning Sun sees connections where no one else does. For him, a drowning at a lake, a fire in a storage facility and a murder by the river carry a thread soaked in blood.
As Emma follows the money and Alibi traces bullets and bodies, the killer counts down to his grand finale. With each mounting danger, it quickly becomes apparent that the corruption Emma has been digging for is real— and it’s deadly.
Three days. Two days. Now only one…
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherCrooked Lane Books
- Publication dateJuly 12, 2022
- File size1348 KB
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“Calvin skillfully crafts an energetic story . . . Strong plotting”
—Shelf Awareness
“Riveting and sophisticated, Under A Broken Sky is a wonderfully complex and surprising page-turner. Sue Grafton meets John Lescroart when a determined and honorable investigator must risk everything in search of her past and in search of justice. Do not miss this!”
—Hank Phillippi Ryan, USA Today bestselling author of Her Perfect Life
“Calvin crafts an intricate, torn-from-the-headlines mystery with a rich cast of fascinating, devious, and wryly-observed suspects. A high-stakes suspense thriller!”
—Mark Wheaton, critically-acclaimed author of Emily, Eternal
“Calvin’s voice is strong and unique, making it easy to get lost in the story . . . An outstanding addition to a powerful and entertaining thriller series.”
—Tamsen Schultz, award-winning author of the Windsor and Tildas Island series
“Calvin deftly weaves together threads of several intriguing mysteries to create a rich, complex tapestry of corruption, betrayals and lies. Just as compelling are the believable, three-dimensional characters and the way their lives collide and intertwine.This suspenseful, emotional page-turner should shoot to the top of everyone’s must-read list!”
—Brianna Labuskes, bestselling author of A Familiar Sight
“Kris Calvin’s Under a Broken Sky gives you a father-daughter relationship, fraught with complication, that sticks with you long after you’ve finished the last page. Abandonment. Acceptance. Forgiveness. Heady concepts to weave into a crime novel, but Calvin does it like a champ . . . More, please!”
—Tracy Clark, winner of the 2020 Sue Grafton Memorial Award
“Shrewdly plotted with compelling characters, Calvin has crafted a chilling page-turner, one you’ll be reading late into the night.”
—James L’Etoile, author of Black Label, Dead Drop, and the Detective Penley series
“With Under A Broken Sky Kris Calvin delivers another intriguing mystery, filled with compelling characters and a story that proves all politics is local and all murders are personal.”
—Eric Beetner, author of All The Way Down
Praise for All That Fall:
“A rich and detailed story.”
—Kirkus Reviews
“An intriguing and suspenseful story of corruption and murder that grips readers from the outset and holds their attention throughout.”
—City Book Review
"A sizzling thriller chock-full of suspense and intrigue."
—Robert Dugoni, bestselling author of The Tracy Crosswhite series
“Suspenseful, complex, and engaging.”
—Meg Gardiner, author of the UNSUB series
About the Author
Caitlin Davies is an actress, a director, and an award-winning audiobook narrator who has been nominated for multiple Voice Arts Awards. Her work has received starred Booklist reviews and Parents' Choice Awards and has appeared on YALSA's Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults list. A resident of New York City, she received her bachelor's degree in English from Vassar College and her master's in acting from Brown University.
Product details
- ASIN : B098PX53RK
- Publisher : Crooked Lane Books (July 12, 2022)
- Publication date : July 12, 2022
- Language : English
- File size : 1348 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 300 pages
- Page numbers source ISBN : 1643859048
- Best Sellers Rank: #866,316 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #7,958 in Amateur Sleuth Mysteries (Kindle Store)
- #18,913 in Amateur Sleuths
- #20,691 in Women Sleuths (Kindle Store)
- Customer Reviews:
About the author
Award-winning author Kris Calvin was educated in forensics psychology and economics and has been honored by the California Governor's office and legislature for her leadership in child advocacy. Kris writes thrilling and suspenseful mystery/crime fiction stories for adults, in which no harm comes to children.
A single mom, Kris and her kids are faithful SF Giants and Warriors sports fans, but their favorite place is the public library.
Kris’s new series features Emma Lawson, an ethics investigator, and Detective Alibi Morning Sun, who together track down corruption and killers in California's capital of Sacramento.
Kris's writing has received multiple awards, including Best First Novel, Best Female Detective/Sleuth and Best Political Thriller.
John Lescroart, author of 19 New York Times bestsellers, has this to say about Kris: "Crisp and entertaining...Kris Calvin sets herself apart..."
About ALL THAT FALL:
Introducing Emma Lawson—an unlikely hero to cheer for!
The body shot and killed in the early morning hours by the Sacramento River would have been an easy case for Detective Alibi Morning Sun to solve, if only his prime suspect weren't already in jail. Across town, Emma Lawson, California's youngest lead government ethics investigator, is enjoying a rare day off to help her best friend, Kate, prepare for the opening of her new business, Rainbow Alley Preschool, when amidst a hail of gunfire, Kate’s 15-yr-old son, Luke goes missing. As Alibi gathers new evidence to determine the identity of the riverside killer and Emma desperately searches for Luke, the two investigations collide. At the heart of both is a diabolical plot with stakes Emma could never have imagined. Will Emma and Alibi be in time to to stop a calculating killer whose plan threatens all that Emma holds dear?
Jess Lourey, Amazon chart-topping author, says: "All That Fall has everything I look for in a thriller!"
About UNDER A BROKEN SKY:
In this Sacramento-set thriller perfect for fans of Meg Gardiner, ethics investigator Emma Lawson uncovers greed and deception for a living, but this time is different. If only she knew this killer can hear her. He can see her.
One year into her prized role as the youngest ethics investigator in California's history, Emma suspects corruption in the state's billion dollar expansion to train travel. That unwittingly puts her on a killer's trail—a killer who will do anything to reach his illicit million dollar payday, including personally eliminating Emma as a threat.
Detective Alibi Morning Sun sees connections where no one else does. For him, a drowning at a lake, a fire in a storage facility and a murder by the river carry a thread soaked in blood.
As Emma follows the money and Alibi traces bullets and bodies, the killer counts down to his grand finale. With each mounting danger, it quickly becomes apparent that the corruption Emma has been digging for is real— and it’s deadly.
Brianna Labuskes, best-selling author, says: "Under A Broken Sky is a suspenseful, emotional page-turner should shoot to the top of everyone’s must-read list!”
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It's a breath of fresh air to have a protagonist who is not a grizzled loner or someone whose work is their whole life! Even Emma's pets have lots of people who care for them. This makes the thriller aspect all the more thrilling, because each development can ripple outward to affect lots of people we care about...
Alibi Morning Sun also has a sense, a sixth sense, that links him to a young woman whose murder near the river going through town. Who was she and why does he sense that she may be related to the other wierd things going on?
Then Emma's long-lost father shows up and soon she's head-deep in trying to figure out why he's shown up after a decade of being gone and out of her life. Does he have the answers she's been seeking--about him and the mother she thinks has been dead so long?
Thank you to the author and Crooked Lane Books for the free copy to review.