Multi-award-winning Donnell Ann Bell knows statistically that crime and accidents happen within a two-mile radius of the average residence. That’s why she leaves the international capers to world travelers and concentrates on stories that might happen in her neck of the woods. Over the last few years, Donnell has fallen in love with writing multi-jurisdictional task force plots, keeping close tabs on her theme SUSPENSE TOO CLOSE TO HOME. Her single-title romantic suspense novels, The Past Came Hunting, Deadly Recall, Betrayed, and Buried Agendas, have all been Amazon e-book best sellers. Traditionally published with Belle Books/Bell Bridge Books, Black Pearl, a Cold Case Suspense is her first mainstream suspense and book one of a series. Until Dead, A Cold Case Suspense is book two in the series.
A cold case heats up when a 9-1-1 call puts police at a Denver murder scene, pointing investigators to the abduction of a Colorado teenager fourteen years earlier. A calling card—a single black pearl—is found on the newest victim. Is the murder a copycat? Or has a twisted serial killer, thought dead or in prison, returned to strike again? Read More