Name: No Good Deed
Author: Victoria Pitts Caine

by Victoria Pitts Caine

Jessa Fisher grew up in the small mountain community of Montaña Verde, but when she and her fellow detective, Eric Lane, are assigned to a murder case she begins to question what she knows about the town’s inhabitants.

Is her current case linked to multiple deaths spanning decades? What are the connections, and who holds the answers? As she unravels these secrets, she’s inspired to look into the mysterious disappearance of her great-grandmother.

Jessa soon realizes Eric is interested in more than solving the crime.

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Author's Notes

I love cozy mysteries, and I decided to venture into the genre myself. Knowing little about the art of forensics, I questioned members of law enforcement and friends who had retired from the local crime unit. I also did a fair amount of research on the handling of major crimes in small communities. Another interest of mine is genealogy, and a bit of that is intertwined in the story when the main character researches the mysteries of her father’s family. Studying the geographic makeup of the frequently visited mountains and national parks near my home helped me plot the background for the search and rescue efforts in the story.