As Ann Kern starts
her new business as an interior decorator, the temperatures have risen, tulips
and daffodils are in bloom and there’s a feeling of endless possibilities in
the air. She has no idea that her world is about to be turned upside down.
When Janis Riley, a woman for whom money is no object, contacts her, Ann is elated. But the initial visit with her first client leaves her with mixed emotions. Why did Janis react so strangely to seeing a photo of Davey, Ann’s six-year-old son?
But Ann has bigger problems. Her husband, David, a recovering alcoholic, has lost both his mother and his job and Ann worries that he’ll start drinking again. To add to her concerns, their next-door-neighbor, Dorothy Baker, is severely depressed but Ann’s efforts to help her are rebuffed.
Ann is terrified when she wakes up the day before Easter to find Davey gone. Another child, Kelly Kramer, has been missing since December. Where are the children? And what, if anything, can Ann do to get her son back?
J.R. Lindermuth, author of the Sticks Hetrick mystery series
“The worst possible thing anyone could image, happened to Ann Kern, the protagonist in Desperate Deeds, the third in the Malone Mystery series. Her child went missing. Ms. Gligor kept me reading well into the night to find out what happened. Her character development is so true to life that I could feel everything Ann did as she searched for her son. The suspense kept me tense and guessing throughout the novel, until I finally let out a breath at the end.”
Evelyn Cullet, author of the Charlotte Ross mystery series
