Deadly Deceit


Twice #1 in Amazon’s Women Sleuths Category!

Deadly Deceit by Karen Randau front cover

A deceitful husband, a dangerous state senator, and a barrage of twists, Deadly Deceit is the first in the explosive new Rim Country Mystery series!

Rita Warren lives the kind of life we all want — happy family, nice house, good friends — until a confused young man blows away her husband and thirteen other people during movie previews and popcorn in the local theater. Now alone and stalked by a mysterious man on a Harley, she begins to question everything she thought she knew about her thirty-year marriage. And about herself.

She teams up with Detective Cliff Avery in the hunt for answers. When robbers break into her house with Rita there, she knows it’s time to take matters into her own hands. In the process, she learns that she is smarter, stronger, and more determined than she ever realized.

As the body count rises, Rita finds her family in the crosshairs of an assassin who will stop at nothing to get what he wants — including returning Rita’s college-age daughter one body part at a time.

Murder and a Pandora’s box of deceit that goes back to her husband’s service in the first Gulf War — this wasn’t how Rita pictured her thirtieth anniversary!