Review: The Girl in the Manor

The Girl in the Manor by A.J. Rivers
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Emma is on leave but naturally that doesn't mean she's sitting on her butt relaxing! Nope, there is a bus terminal explosion and her ex-boyfriend, Greg, appears in the video feed from the security cameras. Eric, her buddy back in the FBI home office lets her know that the boss has allowed him to send her a clip--just to make sure it is really Greg. It is, so Emma is requested to come look at all the video and give her imput on what Greg may have been doing in the site.

Sam, her new/old boyfriend, and the local sheriff is not happy that she is taking off to do FBI stuff when she's to be resting. He, of course, doesn't mind her helping out on a little mystery back there in the hometown. A little girl has died in an apparent accident--she slipped running on a marble floor in her billionaire Dad's home, hit her head and died. Her mother isn't sure it was an accident and so the new wife is being scrutinized a bit more closely, since she was the only one with the child when she fell. However, this woman has been found hanging in the mansion with all the windows and doors closed and locked from the inside. Suicide. Case closed on the child's death. Not so fast--Mother and her boyfriend aren't happy that there will be no more investigation into that death. Meanwhile, Dad has disappeared and no one knows where he is. Add to that the fact that the knots on the suicide's rope could not have been tied by her. So that one looks like murder.

Emma has her hands full but wait, there's more. Another Manor all together and a cult connection. AND there appears to be a stalker watching Emma and when she notices him she thinks it is her missing father--but you needed to read the first two books to understand that whole plot point.

Pretty convoluted tales this series but interesting enough that I keep right on reading them

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