Small Town Secrets
River Bend Chronicles #1
by Renee Kumor,
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An introduction to the River Bend Chronicles series, you will encounter fascinating characters, three murders, a marriage, and the beginning of a romance between Lynn and a detective known as Dusty. The story takes place over several weeks from May to August. Lynn learns from her father that she has a half -brother, a man whom she has known all of her life. She learns of this relationship on the eve of their 25th high school reunion. As she deals with this new wrinkle in her life, two classmates are murdered, then the sister of a benefactor of the River Bend Philanthropies, her employer, is kidnapped and murdered. New family relationships thread through this mystery, as Lynn works with a local detective to provide moral support to families of the murder victims.
Taking A Chance
River Bend Chronicles #2
by Renee Kumor
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This second entry in the popular River Bend Chronicles gives us a growing relationship between Lynn Powers and police detective Dusty Reid — along with two murders.
‘Tis the Season
River Bend Chronicle #3
by Renee Kumor
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In this third book in the River Bend Chronicles, Lynn Powers, a fortyish widow with a teenage son, continues to build her new life in River Bend. It’s two weeks before Christmas and the holiday season is going full tilt — except for Lynn and her son.
An Act of Charity
River Bend Chronicles #4
by Renee Kumor
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In this fourth book in the River Bend Chronicles, Lynn Powers and Dusty Reid have broken off their engagement to the consternation of both families. But Lynn gets drawn into a murder that requires Dusty’s intervention.
Someone Cares
River Bend Chronicles #5
by Renee Kumor
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Jason is a victim of a fight in the park and is thrown into a fishing boat and set adrift on the river. Dusty organizes a search for the youngster. Blaming himself, Dusty begins interviewing friends and family about parenting. Sean Hennessey returns to claim his inheritance. . .
Forever, Sonny
River Bend Chronicles #6
by Renee Kumor
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Sonny Bosco, one of the actors who came to River Bend for a community project last spring, stayed to die. She is a friend of a local physician. Dr. Rita Rutledge, and the River Bend gang, led by Lynn Powers and her family, have rallied to help with Sonny’s care.
The River Bend Quartet
(Volumes 1 to 4 in the River Bend Chronicles romance series)
by Renee Kumor
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Renee Kumor enthralls readers of her popular romance series — The River Bend Chronicles — drawing them into the lives and loves of the inhabitants of this all-too-familiar small town.
Season of Revenge
River Bend Chronicles #7
by Renee Kumor
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This holiday season in River Bend includes family gatherings, snowmobile races, and a little romance. And murder. Lynn Powers and her family begin celebrations for Christmas with the first big party, Dusty’s birthday. However, on Christmas Day Dusty is called to a murder scene where a young man is found dead in his bathtub. And returning from a school administrators Christmas gathering Piper finds a hit-and-run victim in the icy road. Is she under suspicion of the crime?
Who Am I?
River Bend Chronicles #8
by Renee Kumor
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Lynn Powers is facing the month of May caught up in the activities driven by a son who is graduating from high school. But that doesn’t stop her from becoming embroiled in mayhem as she discovers an elderly black woman who has been assaulted. Throughout the story Lynn and her family learn about the history of many people in town, including the simmering feuds and sad stories among members of River Bend’s African-American community. In addition, Lynn learns more of her own family history as she discovers a small diary belonging to her mother. Mix all this in with the usual antics of Lynn, Dusty and their family and it adds up to another installment of the River Bend Chronicles.
Old Debts
River Bend Chronicles #9
by Renee Kumor
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The gang in River Bend find themselves dealing with aging parents and with a local nonprofit taking advantage of the elderly in the community. As Piper’s father undergoes knee surgery, her mother, Glenda, is left alone at the farm seeming to suffer from a mental decline. Lynn and Dusty discover a dead man on the farm and the folks in River Bend become concerned with safety for the community’s elder citizens when the investigation into the man’s death leads to evidence of a local nonprofit cheating and scamming elder citizens. Strokes, surgery, scams and murder focus concern on the aging citizens and their safety with a little romance thrown in
Deadly Politics
River Bend Chronicles #10
by Renee Kumor
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By Thanksgiving life in River Bend has turned as bitter as the weather. A detective has been shot, three children are found abandoned and one local politician is killed in a deadly car bombing. The usual family holiday cheer is dampened as Dusty works to protect three small children from child traffickers while hunting a bomber. Detective Teniquia LaMont struggles with the aftermath of a bullet wound that has taken away her ability to have children. Lynn witnesses the death of a local county commissioner in a car bombing and has difficulty with flashbacks and nightmares. Through it all Lynn and her friends try to rebuild a family and a home for several children – Polly Carmichael, a teenager made an orphan when her mother is murdered in the car bombing, and three toddler victims of child traffickers.
500 Kisses
River Bend Chronicles #11
by Renee Kumor
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It’s the beginning of a new year. Lynn Powers is still recovering from witnessing her friend Susan Carmichael die in an explosion. Polly, Susan’s teenage daughter, has agreed to stay in River Bend for the rest of her freshman year of high school. She is having some difficult periods of adjustment. As Lynn and her friends cope with Polly, Yolanda Valeri receives a bequest from an elderly admirer. She is given a half-a-million dollars to distribute to local nonprofits as she sees fit. After consulting with Lynn, Yolanda accepts funding proposals but is soon overwhelmed with gifts from eager nonprofits. She meets the son of her elderly admirer and begins to date him, causing local eyebrows to raise. As usual, Lynn and her friends are drawn into a mystery as a nonprofit tries to intimidate Yolanda into granting it all her money. They soon learn that the agency is fake, is running a gambling establishment, and is responsible for assaulting several of their clientele, resulting in at least one death. As usual, Lynn and her husband, Dusty, surprise one another during an investigation as another local River Bend nonprofit causes murder and mayhem.
There’s No Explaining Love
River Bend Chronicles #12
by Renee Kumor
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River Bend is alive with spring blossoms and Lynn Powers is doing her best to trade, barter or steal samples of some of the best perennials for her garden. Dusty, her husband, interrupts her spring fever as he draws her into helping with his new assignment. He has been named to a local county board by the sheriff to work with early release felons. According to a new state law, each county is to create a new local nonprofit to help the early release prisoners as they update their education, enroll in job training, find work and create a stable life in the county. Dusty, a law enforcement professional, has no expectations for success of the program or the early release felons. His suspicions are proved valid as two of the three felons rob a bank and kidnap Lynn and her friend, Amelia Shipley. The River Bend gang muddles through spring with robbery, dancing lessons, Memorial Day parades and unexpected romance
Brewing Terror
River Bend Chronicles #13
by Renee Kumor
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In this can’t-put-down entry in the ongoing River Bend Chronicles series, Lynn Powers has been accepted into a two-week program at Harvard for nonprofit professionals. On the plane to Boston she chats with Eloise, a River Bend friend who is going to visit her daughter, Julie, a high tech government worker with Top Secret security clearance. Homeland Security agents enter the picture to guard Julie when they learn she has come to the attention of a terrorist cell. When Lynn takes some time off to enjoy the Fourth of July with Julie in Boston, they are assaulted by terrorists and rescued by Homeland Security agents. Julie returns.
Girl Fight
River Bend Chronicles #14
by Renee Kumor
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On a trip to Raleigh Lynn Powers meets with a gentleman who feels he is sitting on the board of a poorly run nonprofit. Lynn agrees to research the agency and give him her opinion. Her investigation raises concerns about the credibility of the nonprofit. As a follow-up to her review of the nonprofit, she travels to Raleigh to report her findings. She travels with Mars who is scheduled to speak with cadets in the highway patrol training program. They stop to visit Lynn’s friend and are in time to save him from an assassination attempt. Their role in saving him draws attention from the people who have organized the questionable nonprofit as a money laundering scheme. Those involved in the scheme target Mars for termination. This all adds excitement to the usual winter holiday activities in River Bend.
Decorating for Death
River Bend Chronicles #15
by Renee Kumor
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Lynn is finally going to get her kitchen remodeled. As Dusty and his brother Carl debate plumbing fittings, Lynn explores the decorating center at Big Roy’s building supply store. She finds a beautiful cabinet, just what her new kitchen needs – until a death body falls out. Sprawled at her feet is Darryl Plummer, the husband of a popular River Bend pediatrician. Dusty’s investigators find that the victim was a man of many secrets – secrets responsible for his death. Over the weeks of the investigation, popular Dr. Robin Plummer is forced to face the devastating facts of her husband’s secret life. Her three children, two in college and one in high school, learn strength and dignity from their mother as they come to terms with the dark life of the man they had always thought of as husband and father. The murder investigation draws to a close as Dusty and his team rush to save Lynn who has been trapped in her office by the person responsible for Darryl Plummer’s death in the building supply store. Join the River Bend gang as Lynn expands her remodeling plans from a few kitchen cabinets to new appliances and finally to also include a full-blown rework of at least one bathroom – while murder demands Dusty’s attention.
Where Is She Now?
River Bend Chronicles #16
by Renee Kumor
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The James County/River Bend Investigation Unit is focused on finding little Holly Hardesty. She wandered away from her mother and brother one springtime afternoon. In the dark of night, the searchers are tramping through lowland getting close to the river having worked for hours as a drizzling rain fell. They hear a child giggle in the darkness. Mars rushes through the mud and reeds to find the girl safely protected by a hobo. In appreciation for his assistance in finding Holly, Teniquia offers to help the hobo reconnect with his family. She persuades him to stay in town and invites his wife and daughter to come to River Bend. The reunion is all Teniquia expected. In the meantime, Nancy Rawlings has returned to town asking her old flame, Mars, to help her recover from her mental health crisis – the crisis where she tried to shoot him a few months ago. Her return threatens the relationship Mars has been developing with Trina Hardesty and her children. The gang soon learns that Nancy hasn’t changed. She has only one reason to be in River Bend. Murder! But who will be the victim?
Broken Hearts Broken Promises
River Bend Chronicles #17
by Renee Kumor
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Lynn and Dusty are distracted by marriage problems in the family. One of Dusty’s brothers, Kent, admits to marital difficulties. And Piper confides in Lynn that her marriage to Will is in trouble. As Lynn and Dusty mourn the marriage problems among those they cherish, Lynn literally stumbles over a dead body on the community college campus. The victim, a professor known to be a womanizer, is suspected of having had an affair with Allison, Dusty’s sister-in-law. Did Dusty’s brother murder the man? And will Dusty’s relationship to the suspect compromise the investigation? As the detectives are caught up in solving a murder, an old friend returns to River Bend. Sean Hennessey, multimillionaire, comes home, telling Lynn he has traveled the world and has learned that money is no substitute for friends and family. The gang muddles through the murder investigation while old friends reconnect and the issues in Piper and Will’s marriage become more complex.