Redemption (A Joe Burgess Mystery, Book 3)

Redemption

The Joe Burgess Mystery Series

Book Three

by

Kate Flora

Award-winning Author

REDEMPTION

Reviews & Accolades

"Flora's Joe Burgess mysteries are authentic police procedurals—right down to the grisly autopsies."

~Bushnell On Books

"The story starts on a deceptively ordinary day. It is Saturday of a sunny Columbus Day weekend in Portland. Then, only a few lines into the story, everything changes..."

~Portland Press Herald

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Dedication

To my husband, Ken

Acknowledgments

Thanks, as always, go to my mentors: In the Portland, Maine, police department, Deputy Chief (Ret.) Joseph K. Loughlin, Detective/Sergeant Tommy Joyce, Sergeant Danny Young, and Sergeant Bruce Coffin, and from the Maine State Police, Sergeant Matthew Stewart and Detective Scott Harakles. To the Waltham, Massachusetts, police department, for letting me take their Citizen's Police Academy. To Concord, Massachusetts, retired police chief, Len Wetherbee. And to Detective Sergeant Brian Cummings of the Miramichi, New Brunswick, police, who is constantly trying to expand my knowledge of interview and interrogation procedures. A great teacher even when I'm a very slow student.

Special help on this book came from Paul Rollins, Rollins Scuba Associates, South Portland, Maine.

I could never do this without my readers: Brad Lovette, Nancy McJennett, Jack Nevison, Diane Englund, and Brian Cummings, who catch my errors, firm up my characters, make wise suggestions, and generally keep me and Joe Burgess on the straight and narrow.

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