Book Review: Perhaps She'll Die

Reviewed By: Gina Metz - RAM

Perhaps She'll Die     Amazon US PB Amazon Canada PB
M. K. Preston
Class/Genre:   Mystery   Romantic Suspense
Series: Chantalene # 1
Intrigue Press, 2001, 218 pages

As a child Chantalene, along with her Mother witness the hanging of her father by four vigilantes for a crime he was acquitted of in court. Fearing for their own lives, Chantalene’s mother leaves the child with a neighbor, swearing to return for the girl and tells her several times to never speak of what they witnessed that night. However, Chantalene’s mother never returns and she grows up in foster homes.

Now a young adult, Chantalene returns to Tetumka, Oklahoma to try to find her father’s killers as his death was ruled a suicide and to try to find out what happened to her Mother. She continues to suffer from nightmares of the night of her father’s hanging. Chantalene’s return to Tetumka is not one with a welcome. The small town would rather have the past left buried.

One man offers to give Chantalene information about that night but when she goes to meet with him she finds him dead and herself a possible suspect in his murder. She finds a friend and romantic interest in Drew Sander, also a native of Tetumka and former neighbor of Chantalene who was older and had spent the last few years in New York. He is a lawyer in the midst of a divorce trying to figure out where to go with his life now.

I thought the book really brought across the characteristics of small town life and attitudes and describe the scenery to where you could picture it in your mind. Chantalene is a wonderful character and I look forward to more entries in this series.

Gina Metz - RAM

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