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Welcome to the Scavenger Blog Hunt and giveaway for the Garrison’s Law contemporary romantic suspense series by Mary Connealy, hosted by JustRead Tours!
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- a clue
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ABOUT THE BOOK
Title: Loving the Mysterious Texan
Series: Garrison’s Law, Book 5
Author: Mary Connealy
Release Date: January 2019
Genre: Gothic Romance
A woman wakes up in bed with a dead man and no memory—at all.
A stranger drags her away and offers her an alibi. The trouble is, if he’s her alibi, then she’s his. And he freely admits he’s got plenty of reasons to want his cousin Victor dead.
She learns her name is Lanny Cole. She’s living in a derelict old mansion they call The Devil’s Nest, with a whole family full of people who look capable of murder. Her amnesia is caused by an ugly blow to the head. Whoever hit her, killed Victor, then tucked her into bed with the now-dead Victor hoping she’d be arrested for murder.
She is forced to trust her rescuer, Devereau Grey, her alibi…who is more family with the Garrisons than with the Devereaus. In fact, through Grey’s connections, Case Garrison is the law on the mainland nearest the Devil’s Nest.
Grey has come home to tear open the corrupt heart of his family and find who’s stealing money from the Devereau Trust. His main suspect is dead and every member of his family has a motive for the murder and the theft, including himself, and Lanny Cole, who foolishly took a job with the Devereau family’s cold, manipulative matriarch.
And then another body turns up, and another. They need to get away, but a hurricane cuts off the island roads to a port that leads to violent seas.
Grey and Lanny are trapped in the Devil’s Nest. While they fight for their lives, family history comes to light that provides a motive for killing Lanny, and her research…if she could just remember it…might reveal the hiding place for a three-hundred-year old chest of pirate’s treasure.
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BOOKS IN THIS SERIES
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Mary Connealy writes romantic comedy with cowboys always with a strong suspense thread. She is a two time Carol Award winner, and a Rita, Christy and Inspirational Reader’s Choice finalist. She is the bestselling author of over 50 books and novellas.
Her most recent book series are: Garrison’s Law, High Sierra Sweethearts, Cimarron Legacy, Wild at Heart, Trouble in Texas, and Kincaid Bride for Bethany House Publishing. She’s also written four other series for Barbour Publishing and many novellas.
Mary has nearly a million books in print.
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Review
Let’s be honest, if you know me at all you totally know what I’m going to say first. Well, maybe not as life has been scattered for a minute or ninety bazillion of them. ‘Loving the Mysterious Texan’ is the fifth book in a series. Fifth! Guess how many I had a chance to read before diving into this one? Zero. I had the books on hand, I had amazing intentions. But then life happened, and work crazied, and weren’t there just some holidays or something? Not valid reasons but solid fizzyfied excuses. Here’s the flip side of that though. As much as it grieves me at a visceral level to read a series out of order, it doesn’t matter. Not one wit, not one iota, not one whatever you wanna call it. I mean, yes I might have missed out of some little nuance of some sort of existing relationships but I don’t have a clue that I’m missing it. Needless to say, I can attest with absolute personal experience that this book reads perfectly as a stand alone. Couple that with a genre I’ve been missing (not the romance part!) and I’m a very happy girl. It’s been a minute since I could dig into a good suspense and this one fit that bill to a T.
Now, while I’m all gushy and so very content with all the suspense this book had to offer I have one ginormous thing I cannot overlook. I tried. I took all my love for the well written suspense and still can’t turn away. It’s like gawkers on the highway passing an accident scene, they just can’t not do it. Insta-love is like that for me. I mean, sometimes, maybe, perhaps, if x and y and z come out to play but. . . I just couldn’t do it with this book. There’s insta-love and then there’s ‘do you even know each other’s middle name or birthday or even where they actually live in real life insta-love. And when you factor in all the intense and traumatic (I mean Lanny did wake up with amnesia next to a dead body!) things that unfolded around Lanny and Grey it’s bound that they will forge an intense bond. But three days (give or take) and suddenly it’s happily ever after? I mean really, do you know where each other actually lives?!? Grey never revealed that to my recollection. When’s his birthday? What’s her middle name? I mean personal things to know about each other before promising happily ever after! Really, that in and of itself is my only complaint, but for me it’s a huge one. So huge it’s the sole reason this is not a five star review for me.
I think part of my reading slow down (outside of all the excuses provided above) is that I’ve over dipped into the romance genre. I need something to keep me on the edge of my seat and keep me guessing. I enjoy something that makes me leary about reading in the dark. I need a mystery to solve! Connealy truly gave me that as I *thought* so many times I had it all figured out, just to have to adjust my bad guy over and over. She truly kept me guessing right up to the very end. This is only my second book by this author and my first of her as a suspense/mystery but I’ll definitely need to come back for me. And I have to make the time and go back and read the first books in this series! If they are a fraction as good as this one then it’ll not even be effort.
My Clue is
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TOUR GIVEAWAY
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I’m wanting to read each and every one of the books in this series. The more I read about each book the greater my desire to do so.
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I just finished the book a couple days ago and thought the same thing about the falling in love so fast. Really enjoyed your review on Goodreads and came over here to look at your blog.