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<h2 style="text-align:
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the Season… There Just Had to Be
Murder</strong></h2>
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<p style="text-align: center;">“Outstanding plot, unique
twists and turns, and writing style is superb. This story is very suspenseful
and riveting. Highly recommend for crime and mystery fans.”<br
/><strong>–Book
Reviewer</strong></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">I love
Christmas! I always have. There seems to be something magical about the season
as family and friends come together, decorations are put up, lights are strung
and turned on, and if you’re
up north like me, you get the white stuff. Please don’t flog me, but I rather like snow, and it’s not because I play outside in it. I find it
peaceful to watch coming down from inside my warm house. (I really love it when
I have a glass of red wine in hand and a roast dinner cooking in the oven.)<br /><br />When it came time to write the second book in the
Detective Madison Knight series, I thought what if I put a dark shadow over
such a festive time of the year. This led me to set <em>Justified
</em>at Christmastime. In fact, the murder takes place on Christmas Eve
and the victim, Claire Reeves, is a woman who had it all going for her: looks,
sex appeal, and business savvy. But it seems one of those things may have
caught up with her. As Detective Madison and her partner dig into the victim’s life they keep
finding more people who would have motive to kill her. With more suspects than
available man-hours to question them, it’s obvious this Christmas, murder hasn’t taken a holiday…<br /><br />Wishing you a
festive investigation,<br />Carolyn
Arnold</p>
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<p><strong>Excerpt from Chapter 5 of
<em>Justified</em>:</strong></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left:
30px;">Madison’s
eyes felt like they had been welded shut by the sandman. She heard a faint
banging, which at first she dismissed as a dream, but unfortunately it was persistent.<br /><br />What time was it anyhow? She managed to read the
clock through foggy slits. <em>7:02.<br /><br
/></em>The knocking intensified. Her visitor wasn’t going to leave. Her initial reaction was to
throw something hard at the wall and protest the awakening, but she didn’t have enough
energy for that.<br /><br
/>“What?”
she yelled, certain her neighbors would pound on the wall to protest the noise,
but not really caring if they did. The walls were paper-thin in this place, and
usually it didn’t
take much for them to get excited, but this morning their apartment seemed
quiet. Maybe they had drunk their Christmas cheer and passed out, unconscious
to the world. Or maybe they had taken her last warning seriously when at one in
the morning she had donned a housecoat, fuzzy slippers, and her Glock and paid
them a visit. Not necessarily something a good cop would be proud of, but she
was just human after all.<br
/><br />Her visitor wasn’t
letting up.<br /><br
/>“I’m coming. Shut up!” She couldn’t help it. Patience was never her strong
suit, and at this point, on a limited amount of sleep, she had even less of it.<br /><br />She swung the door open and faced Terry. He had a
couple cloth grocery bags in one hand and a small, decorated tree under his
other arm.<br /><br
/>“What are you doing—”<br /><br />“Nice pj’s.”<br /><br />She looked
down at herself and was thankful for full coverage—a
pair of blue track pants and a Stiles PD sweatshirt.<br
/><br />“And
here I would have taken you for a white lace woman.”<br /><br />“As if.” She
stepped back from the door to let him in.<br
/><br />“You
don’t have one, do you?” He glanced around the apartment.<br /><br />“Have one what?”<br /><br />“Didn’t think so.”
He met eyes with her and smiled. “A
tree, Maddy. Everyone needs one.”<br /><br />She found herself somewhat touched by the gesture
but didn’t allow him to see it. “Put it where you like,” she said.<br /><br />Terry set the prelit tree
down and plugged it in. It had small white lights tastefully dispersed. She
fought a smile so it wouldn’t
give her away.<br /><br
/>“It’s early. You do know that,” she said.<br /><br />Terry didn’t respond to her but went into her kitchen
and made himself at home. He set the bags he’d brought with him on the counter and started
pulling items out of them: a Tupperware container filled with what looked like
batter, one filled with blueberry sauce, another filled with strawberry sauce,
and a bottle of genuine maple syrup. He then folded the bags, signaling the end
of their contents.<br
/><br />“What
are you doing now?”<br
/><br />“You’re
going to repeat yourself all day like a parrot?”<br /><br />A cliché. Terry’s vocabulary was poisoned with them. “Until you answer the
question.”<br
/><br />He laughed.<br
/><br />“Is
this some joke?”<br
/><br />“Absolutely
not.” He swung open the cabinet doors,
working his way around the compact space in seconds. “Guess I should have brought it with me—”<br /><br />“What are you looking for? Terry, it’s seven in the morning!”<br /><br />“A nonstick fry pan. I’m going to cook you up some superb pancakes.
With Grant pancakes, the secret’s
in the batter. We know how to make them light and fluffy—”<br /><br />“Stop
there.” The sincere happiness he seemed to
be experiencing in this moment was breaking through her grumpy exterior. “Light and fluffy?”<br /><br />“The best.” He took out a flipper and turned on a burner.<br /><br />“But why? And why so early?” She brushed past him, opened the bottom drawer on
the stove, and put a frying pan on the burner.<br
/><br />“Because
we’ve got to get to work—”<br /><br />“It’s
Christmas day.”<br
/><br />“Doesn’t
mean we don’t work.”<br /><br />Okay, so he
had a point. The strange part was he was the one pushing work this morning, and
she was the one being tempted to take personal time.</p>
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<p style="text-align:
justify;"><strong><u>Book Overview:<br
/><br
/></u></strong><em>This Christmas, murder doesn’t take a holiday…<br
/><br /></em>Detective Madison Knight
should have ignored her phone when it rang on Christmas Eve. Now she is
spending her holiday dealing with her least favorite thing: a bloody murder scene.<br /><br />Claire Reeves had it all—looks,
sex appeal, and business savvy. But it seems that one of those things has
caught up with her. Now, Madison and her partner are digging through the victim’s personal life,
but the more they dig, the more people they find who had motive to kill
her.<br /><br
/>All the while, Madison is battling with a touch of the holiday blues, and
the man she’s dating isn’t
making things any easier. With the status of their relationship up in the air, it’s affecting her focus
on the investigation. And if that wasn’t enough, tack on being the only female
detective in the Major Crimes division and reporting to a sergeant who thinks
less of her because she is a woman. Not that he’d say so in as many words.<br /><br />But despite
the odds, Madison is determined to prove herself by finding Claire’s
killer and, more importantly, making sure justice is served.</p>
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center;"><strong><em>Justified
</em></strong><strong>is available in e-book, paperback,
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<p style="text-align:
justify;"><strong><u>About the Detective Madison Knight
series:<br /><br
/></u></strong><strong>Murder. Investigation. The pursuit
of justice.</strong> Do
you love trying to figure out whodunit? How about investigating alongside
police detectives from the crime scene to the forensics lab and everywhere in
between? Do you love a strong female lead? Then I invite you to meet Detective
Madison Knight as she solves murders with her male partner, utilizing good old-fashioned
investigative work aided by modern technology.<br /><br />This is the
perfect book series for fans of <em>Law
& Order</em>, <em>CSI</em>, <em>Blue Bloods</em>, <em>Rizzoli & Isles</em>, <em>Women’s
Murder Club</em>, and <em>Hawaii
Five-O</em>.</p>
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<p style="text-align:
justify;"><strong><u>About the Author<br /><br
/></u></strong>Carolyn Arnold is an international bestselling
and award-winning author, as well as a speaker, teacher, and inspirational
mentor. She has four continuing fiction series and has written nearly thirty
books. Both her female detective and FBI profiler series have been praised by
those in law enforcement as being accurate and entertaining, leading her to
adopt the trademark, POLICE PROCEDURALS RESPECTED BY LAW ENFORCEMENT™.<br /><br />Connect with CAROLYN ARNOLD Online:</p>
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