RIVER RAGE REVENGE, my new thriller novel, is one of those kinds of novels that is difficult to place in a specific genre because it contains elements of more than one genre. I prefer to think of the tale as a terrific romance story with elements of not just passionate romance, but also an adventure. There is a mix of love, hate, jealousy, deceit, ambition, cheating, finance, and finally, the mysterious murder of a young woman whose body is discovered in a shallow grave next to a river.
A short synopsis of the story: Two young people who dated once during college discover each other once again later when they are both working toward their career goals, Jennifer Corrington as an attorney and Paul Mercer as a young and ambitious politician. However, they both live far apart, making the growth of their love affair difficult. Eventually, they find a way to work out the distance problem and find a way to culminate their love and become married. Paul is now in the U.S. Congress in Washington and Jennifer is working in Chicago. Even though they are still far from each other, Jennifer hatches a plan to leave her position in Chicago and move to a new legal position in Washington to be near her husband.
Fate steps in.when Paul's best friend, Jerry Webster, is killed in an auto accident out West, leaving his financial business and all his personal wealth to Paul and his office manager, Shelley Davis. Paul has to make a career decision to either stay in D.C. or go back to his hometown and learn the finance business his friend left him and Shelley. Encouraged by his wife Jennifer, the couple decides to leave Washington and move back to their hometown of Decatur. Paul joins the business with Shelley and Jennifer opens a private law firm. In order to help get the struggling business off to a decent start, Paul and Shelley hire an experienced woman in finance to help the business. Her name is Gloria Sharpley. Then they discover unsavory background information on the woman and are forced to fire her.
For a short time, all seems well, but then all hell breaks loose when the body of the missing woman is discovered in a shallow grave on the edge of the Sangamon River near Decatur. Mysterious envelopes are received at Jennifer's office, leading her to believe her husband Paul may have known the dead woman while he was in Washington. Trust issues develop which eventually causes Paul to divorce Jennifer.
Detectives Harold Hanson and Joshua Dean are in charge of the investigation into the murder of the woman. As the investigation unfolds, several people are included as potential suspects in the case, including Ted Knowles, an ex-husband of the dead woman, Paul Mercer, and even his ex-wife Jennifer.
After a series of events plus an anonymous call to one of the detectives, the plot thickens considerably until a totally surprising event leads them onto the right path to solve the murder. The reader will experience a story ending they could never predict.
This story is available at: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=paul+r.+meredith&ref=nb_sb_noss
