Blurb:
The
trouble with running away is that you take yourself with you.
After
police officer Colleen McDonald is injured in a case gone south and her partner
dies, she leaves her job and friends in small town Pine Hills Oregon for a
fresh start as a civilian in Orlando. When a deputy sheriff comes to her door
investigating a possible missing person, she’s determined to get him out of her
life by beating him at his own game.
Jeffrey
Walters is missing—or is he? His stepdaughter insists he is. His aunt claims
he’s simply out of town on business. His former business partner knows nothing.
There’s a stranger living in his guesthouse.
To
Deputy Sheriff Graham Harrigan, finding Jeffrey might be his ticket to a
permanent slot in the Criminal Investigations Division. He’s determined to
prove he’s worthy of the promotion despite an unearned reputation passed down
by an unsavory training partner. The attractive woman living in Jeffrey’s
guesthouse complicates matters. Their rivalry becomes a partnership that
stretches the boundaries of a professional relationship.
Nowhere to Hide features Colleen
McDonald, a character first introduced in Finding
Sarah, Book One in the Pine Hills
Police Series. In series chronology, the book would fall between Finding Sarah and Hidden Fire, but Nowhere to
Hide stands alone and can be read in any order.
This
Kindle edition features additional content not found in the previous print
version.
About the Author:
Terry
Odell was born in Los Angeles and now makes her home in Divide, Colorado. An
avid reader (her parents tell everyone they had to move from their first home
because she finished the local library), she always wanted to “fix” stories so
the characters did what she wanted—in books, television, and the movies. Once
she began writing, she found this wasn't always possible, as evidenced when the
mystery she intended to write rapidly became a romance.
However,
her entry into the world of writing can be attributed to a “mistake” when her
son mentioned the Highlander television series on a visit home. Being the “good
mother,” she began watching the show and soon connected with the world of
fanfiction—first as a reader, then as a critique giver, and then, one brave
weekend, she wrote her first short story.
Things
snowballed and soon she was writing her first original novel. Much later, she
mentioned something about a recent Highlander episode to her son, and he said, “Oh,
I've never actually watched the show. I just thought the concept was cool.”
Little did he know what he’d started.
With
a degree in Psychology from UCLA, she loves getting into the minds of her
characters, turning them loose in tight spots and seeing what they do. Too
often, they surprise her.
Review by Rochelle:
I
received the boxed set of all four Pine Hills Police books in return for an
honest review. Unlike so many series I receive, each book stands alone and
there are no cliff-hangers! Thank you, Ms. Odell!
Colleen
“Mac” McDonald was introduced in Finding
Sarah, the first book of the Pine Hills Police trilogy. She’s a good, smart
cop, and if Randy Detwiler had his way, she’d be a detective. But, there isn’t
room in the budget to promote her. So, she’s stuck on patrol, and when a
domestic call goes terribly wrong, her partner is killed and Mac is wounded.
Mac
wasn’t working with her usual partner that day, and Montoya’s normal partner is
a misogynistic jerk. He loudly proclaims Montoya’d still be alive if he’d been
on the call (or any other man for that matter), and calls Mac a coward.
Thinking everyone believes that, she takes a medical pension and moves as far
from Pine Hills as she can get—Orlando, Florida. She moves into the guest house
on an estate, and promptly gets involved in a missing persons case involving
the estate’s owner. She meets Deputy Sheriff Graham Harrigan, who is trying to
move from patrol to criminal investigations in his own department, and together
they investigate the seeming disappearance of Mac’s absentee landlord.
I
have to say, I was somewhat disappointed, having just read Saving Scott, which had a similar basis—wounded cop baggage. To
make matters worse, I figure out pretty early whodunit. But again, that’s me.
It might not be quite so obvious to a reader who doesn’t write.
Still,
I really liked Mac in Finding Sarah,
and I was really disappointed when she left Pine Hills. I was happy to follow
her to Orlando, and Ms. Odell’s portrayal of Mac’s reaction to the roller
coasters and fireworks at the nearby theme park are a heart-rending portrayal
of PTSD.
All
in all, Nowhere to Hide is still a
really good book, and I recommend it. If you can, though, jump to it and read
it chronologically—between Finding Sarah and Hidden Fire. It stands alone just fine,
but that way you’ll have Hidden Fire
as a buffer between Nowhere to Hide and Saving Scott, so maybe the similar premises
won’t be quite so glaring.
Author Website: http://terryodell.com/
Heat Rating: R
Length: 327 Pages
Prices:
Print: $10.99
Digital:
Nowhere to Hide: $3.99
Pine Hills Police Boxed Set (Four Books): $5.99
Buy Links:
Nowhere to Hide: http://www.amazon.com/Nowhere-Hide-Pine-Hills-Police-ebook/dp/B008QQ3962/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8
Pine Hills Police Boxed Set (Four Books): http://www.amazon.com/Pine-Hills-Police-Complete-Novels-ebook/dp/B018Y32FWK/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8
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