Title: Ball & Chain
Author: Laura Garner
Genre: Adult Contemporary Mystery/Romance
Release Date: August 30, 2018
When notorious PI Maddie Maxwell is hired to track down "the most boring woman in the world," she doesn't expect to find instead her own bad-boy ex, a string of dead bodies spanning a decade, and a neglected little girl who might change her life forever.
The challenging case of the missing Jane Blake leads Max through a maze of Catholic mysticism, crazy family dynamics, and some huge personal ups and downs. Has her ex really mended his ways, or is his supposed reform just another act? Did Jane really have visions of the Virgin Mary? And what's the story with the mysterious little Claire, who's taken a vow of silence until Jane returns?
Narrated in Max's blunt, unfiltered voice, "Ball & Chain" takes the reader through a whirlwind mystery full of faith, despair, love, hate, and -- ultimately -- hope.
Hired to track down a missing woman, newbie PI Max finds her own bad-boy ex, a string of corpses spanning a decade, and a fierce little girl who steals her heart.
Ball & Chain is the third book in the Maddie Maxwell series. Upon picking Ball & Chain up, I didn't realize that, so while I would've loved to have read the first two to have a better sense of the characters and backstory, Ball & Chain can still be read without reading the first two.
Garner is a new to me author who I hadn't had the pleasure of knowing about until this book. Once I started reading, I found the author's storyline fun, colorful and entertaining.
The lead character, Maddie, is a strong female lead. However, with that being said, at first Maddie didn't click with me. The more I read though, I got a better sense of Maddie and by the end I thought she was awesome. She was strong, courageous, flawed and humorous: all the great elements of a lovable character.
Garner delighted me with the mystery, the characters and the overall plot. She hooked me in and kept me turning pages and now that I've read Ball & Chain, I can't wait to go back and read the previous two books while anxiously awaiting the next release in the series.
If you're a fan of mysteries, I highly suggest Garner's Ball & Chain.
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