Hi lovelies! It gives me great pleasure
today to host Carolyn Arnold and her exciting police
procedural/mystery/suspense book series, “The Detective Madison Knight Series,”
featuring her latest release, “In the Line of Duty.” For other stops on her Goddess Fish Promotions
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Detective
Madison Knight Series
by Carolyn Arnold
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GENRE: Police Procedural/Mystery/Suspense
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A hero has fallen, and hard-edged detective Madison Knight will stop at nothing short of finding justice – even if it means risking her own life.
Releasing 9.26.16
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BOOK ONE: TIES THAT BIND:
When an isolated incident turns into a hunt for a
serial killer, Detective Madison Knight is not going to back down – even if it
pits her against her superiors.
Book 1 in the series.
The
hunt for a serial killer begins…
Detective Madison Knight
concluded the case of a strangled woman an isolated incident. But when another
woman’s body is found in a park killed with the same brand of neckties, she
realizes they’re dealing with something more serious.
Despite mounting pressure
from the sergeant and the chief to close the case even if it means putting an
innocent man behind bars, and a partner who is more interested in saving his
marriage than stopping a potential serial killer, Madison may have to go it
alone if the murderer is going to be stopped.
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BOOK TWO: JUSTIFIED:
It’s Christmastime, and this year murder
doesn’t take a holiday. The killing of a woman leads detective Madison Knight
in many directions to find a killer.
Book 2 in the series.
Madison Knight should
have ignored the call. Now she is spending Christmas Eve dealing with her least
favorite thing…blood and lots of it.
When a female victim
is found in her home, it has Madison and her partner tapping into the vic's
personal life. With a rash of former business partners and lovers, all of whom
wanted her dead, there are not enough hours to question them all.
But trying to find the person who had the most motive isn't all that's on Madison's mind. As she struggles to establish balance in her own life, she knows she has to get her focus back. Justice requires it.
But trying to find the person who had the most motive isn't all that's on Madison's mind. As she struggles to establish balance in her own life, she knows she has to get her focus back. Justice requires it.
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BOOK THREE: SACRIFICE:
Detective Madison Knight will need to call upon her
tenacity when the murder victim is the son of a local businessman who is “in
bed” with the police chief.
Book 3 in the series.
Finding justice comes at a
high price…
When the son of business tycoon Marcus Randall, washes
up on the shore of the Bradshaw River, Detective Madison Knight must sacrifice
everything including her career to find justice for the "perfect
murder."
With Marcus Randall already on the radar of the Secret
Service for fraud and counterfeiting, the investigation sheds new light and
they require the full co-operation of the Stiles PD. But with power and money
to back him, Marcus has a reach that extends right inside the police
department.
If Madison's going to find out the truth, she'll have
to sort through the lies and balance diplomacy with politics.
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BOOK FOUR: FOUND INNOCENT:
In trying to solve a new murder, Detective Madison
Knight may have to dishonor the blue wall of silence when findings in a past
case are called into question.
Book 4 in the series
Sometimes the pursuit of
justice becomes personal…
There's one code when it comes to the wall of blue…and
Madison Knight may have to cross it.
Any good cop knows you never report a brother for
mishandling a case or accuse him of misconduct, but in order to find justice,
Madison may not have a choice.
Lacy Rose had one goal for her twentieth birthday--to
be found innocent of past sins--but her life is cut short.
When Lacy's remains are found in a garden
and the investigation becomes connected to a closed case, Madison must face her
past. The lead detective on that case was Madison's ex-fiancé. At the risk of
jeopardizing departmental relationships, and churning up the attention of an
old flame at the same time, Madison must push hard before the guilty are found
innocent.
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EXCERPT FOUR:
CHAPTER 1:
“HE
DIDN’T DO IT!”
The hysterical shouting pulled Madison’s attention
from her monitor to a woman rushing toward her.
The station was supposed to be quiet today. Sunday.
She wasn’t required to be there, and that made it the perfect day to dig into
her cold case. She was so close to getting answers.
With one more longing look at her screen, Madison rose
from her chair and held up her hands to stop the woman.
“Detective Knight.” She stated this as if they had met
before.
Officer Ranson, the female officer who manned the front
desk, came up behind them. “Come on—”
Another officer brushed past Ranson and slipped his
hands under the woman’s arms. “Let’s go.”
He pulled on her, but she stayed still. Her eyes
steadied on Madison.
“Please help me.” She attempted to shake loose from
the officer’s grip.
Her frown lines were deep burrows, her eyes were
sunken, and the flesh around them was puffy. She appeared to be rough-edged,
but there was something desperate about her, and she didn’t seem to be a threat
to the lives of anyone here.
“I’ve got this,” Madison said.
“All right, your call.” The male officer let go of the
woman, and he and Ranson left.
“I saw your
face in the paper.” The woman held up the Stiles Times. “It’s you, isn’t it?”
Her lashes were caked with mascara, and she blinked slowly. Madison wondered if
the cosmetic had sealed her eyes shut.
Madison passed a glance to the paper. It captured a
moment she wished to forget. A day when she had been forced to speak in front
of a crowd and to take pride in the job she had done. The thing was, though, a
good cop couldn’t care less about the recognition.
The woman sobbed, yet her tears didn’t affect her
makeup. “He wouldn’t do this…”
Madison summoned patience. A list of envelope printing
companies—which could prove to be a vital link in the chain of evidence against
the Russians—would be on her monitor, right now.
She took a deep breath, passed another glance to her
computer, and turned back to the woman. “Come with me.”
Madison kept the woman to the side of her. Her first
impression was the woman didn’t pose a threat, but she still wasn’t willing to
sacrifice her back by leading the way into the room.
Inside, Madison gestured to a chair.
The woman dropped her red bag heavily on the table. It
was large enough to serve as a duffel bag. She pulled off her jean jacket,
folded it over the back of the chair, and revealed a pink sweater that
displayed more cleavage than Madison could ever hope to see on herself. The
woman went rooting through the duffel bag and she stuffed a stick of gum in her
mouth. She worked at chopping it into a soft, pliable distraction. It snapped
in her mouth.
“Let’s start with your name—”
“Vilma with an ‘i.’ Vilma Thorne, well, it would have
been. My God, Kev!” She raised her face upward as if calling out to a Greater
Being. Her gum chewing paused only momentarily.
“Vilma—”
Madison had to tune out the noise and the display of her open-mouth chewing.
“Let’s start at the beginning. Why are you here?”
Vilma stuck a finger through one of the large gold
hoops dangling from her ears and leaned in.
Madison detected the blend of cheap perfume and
cigarettes. Maybe—she inhaled deeper, trying not to be obvious—it wasn’t
perfume but whiskey. It was hard to discern. Her eyes appeared normal, except
for the abuse of eye makeup. Besides the thick mascara, her lids were weighed
with the color purple. Her pupils weren’t dilated or pinpricks.
Still, she didn’t respond to Madison’s question.
“Okay, Vilma, if you need my help, I need you to talk
to me.”
Possibly this woman was on a new line of drug that
disguised itself behind brilliant colors? Maybe this was a mistake and Madison
should have let her get hauled away.
“My family is against what he did. But he didn’t do
it!” Her voice rose, tears flowed. She stopped chewing and, sniffling, went
rooting in the duffel bag again. She came out with a bunched up tissue and
wiped her nose.
Madison’s tolerance level had almost reached its
limit. “You keep saying he didn’t do it. Do what?”
A tissue still
pinched on the tip of her nose, Vilma said, “He didn’t kill himself…someone
killed him.”
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BOOK FIVE: JUST CAUSE:
Detective Madison Knight’s obsession with a cold case
comes to a deadly conclusion. With a rising body count, Madison finds out her
own life is at risk.
Book 5 in the series.
Sometimes cold cases are
deadly…
The past threatens the future and puts Detective
Madison Knight's life in danger.
A cold case pits Madison against the Russian Mafia,
but things take a swift turn when the unthinkable happens—a new threat arises
and has Madison hunting down an unknown killer.
While trying to make sense of the clues, bodies are
piling up, and the brass is hungry for explanations. In addition, Madison must
balance all of this while nursing an injury, talking out her emotions with a
therapist—a bureaucratic necessity—answering to an eager journalist, and facing
an internal affairs investigation.
As the answers come together, Madison narrows in on a
possible link between the Russian Mafia and someone within the Stiles PD.
Will she have the courage to confront the person she
believes is playing both sides, even though they hold a position of great
power?
Things are about to be shaken up, and, for Madison,
that means she just might have to let go of the past to embrace her future.
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BOOK SIX: DEADLY IMPULSE:
Three murders occur within the span of twenty-four
hours, but Detective Madison Knight is adamant they’re not looking for a serial
killer. But can she prove it?
Book 6 in the series.
Looks aren’t the only
things that can be deceiving…
When a sixty-eight-year-old woman is found dead
outside the hospital in a wheelchair with an anti-abortion sign strapped to its
back, Detective Madison Knight expects it to be an open-and-shut case. On the
surface, there are no signs of foul play, but the deeper she digs, the more
convoluted the homicide becomes. And when two more bodies appear, including
those of a girl just barely old enough to drink and a homeless man, the direct
links between the three murders are anything but simple.
Without a consistent MO, Madison doesn’t buy that a
serial killer is on the loose, despite the conviction with which her ex-fiancé
and fellow detective try to convince their superior. But Madison already has
enough to juggle without having to defend her reputation. Debilitating
flashbacks of being held hostage by the Russian Mafia mere months before haunt her
on an almost daily basis, and the promises she made to herself while in
captivity are becoming more and more difficult to keep. Learning to trust is
hard enough without constant reminders of what destruction—fatal or
otherwise—trusting the wrong person can cause.
Now, as both personal and professional friction within
the department mounts, she and her partner, Terry, must figure out what
motivation could span generations to cause someone to murder these people. But
catching this killer is like grasping at straws, and grabbing the wrong one
could mean losing not only her pride but also her boyfriend, her credibility,
and her faith in humanity…
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BOOK SEVEN: IN THE LINE OF DUTY:
**Slated for release September 29 2016.**
Book 7 in the series.
He devoted
his life to seeking justice. But would she get any for him?
It was an ordinary day for police officer Barry
Weir. It was the end of shift, he was tired, and he just wanted to get home to
his wife and kids. But someone had other plans for him, shooting him down and
forcing him to make the ultimate sacrifice.
When news of Weir’s murder reaches the department,
it leaves Detective Madison Knight and every cop in the Stiles PD itching for
revenge. It cuts Madison’s boyfriend, colleague, and Weir’s childhood friend,
Troy Matthews, deepest of all, driving him away from everyone he loves just
when they need one another the most.
With evidence pointing to a gang-related drive-by,
Madison and her team investigate the town’s seedy underbelly in search of
justice for their fallen brother. But the deeper they dig, the more convoluted
the case becomes. Now they need to figure out if this was a random shooting as
part of a gang initiation, a straight-up hate crime, or a targeted kill. But
with members of the Stiles PD under attack, they have to do it fast…before more
officers pay with their lives.
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BONUS PREQUEL: LIFE SENTENCE:
In the
prequel to the Detective Madison Knight Series, defense attorney Bryan Lexan
takes on a Russian mafia boss for a client and may be in way over his head.
Bonus
Prequel.
A defense attorney’s worst
nightmare…
“If I pay with my life, you will pay with yours.”
Defense Attorney Bryan Lexan may have just taken on
the case which will cost him his life. When his client, a Russian mafia boss,
is convicted of first-degree murder, he vows to make Bryan pay.
Meanwhile, Jessica Pratt has always prided herself on
being a modern woman–you know, the kind who doesn't need a man to make her feel
complete. So when she finds herself torn between two, she realizes that not all
decisions are based on facts. If they were, her boyfriend, Bryan, would be the
logical choice. He has the family name, wealth, and a stake in a successful law
firm. Only thing is, when she meets Mason Freeman, the chemistry between them
is irrefutable and he won't take no for an answer.
With both of them caught up in a struggle for
survival, and a powerful enemy on their heels, they'll need to decide where
their loyalties lie.
Please note: This book is a romantic suspense. Madison
Knight of the best-selling police procedural series has more of a secondary
role in this book. This story provides insight into Madison’s background and
the series that was inspired by her.
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So
the next time you see a police officer, remind yourself that police are people,
too, and deserve the same compassion and kindness as you or me.
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GUEST POST:
Police are People Too
“You experience the emotions, distractions,
frustrations and successes of the characters in every chapter of In the Line of
Duty. I found her heartfelt details to
be spot on with a line-of-duty death. Being able to put such a tragic situation
into words, is difficult in itself, but she does it with compassion, knowledge
and respect for those in uniform who know what it is like to lose a brother or
sister in blue.”
-- Carl J. Harper, Training Officer, ERT
(SWAT)
Sadly, as humans, we tend to judge that which we don’t
understand. And let’s be honest, most of us haven’t stood in the shoes of a
police officer. We’ve never faced an armed subject at one o’clock in the
morning or had to make life-and-death decisions on a daily basis. We’ve never
had to focus in a traumatic situation and make a significant judgment call.
We’ve never had to face families and friends who have been left behind and tell
them that their loved one won’t be coming home.
In general, people either point fingers at the police
or put them up on pedestals. No one is perfect, however, and sometimes that
pedestal cracks. Instead of doing either of these things, though, I think it’s
most important that we respect our law enforcement officers and accept that
they are human, just like the rest of us. They have families and friends. They
have feelings. They have hopes and dreams.
In the Line of Duty was inspired by my love of law
enforcement, for those who serve and who have served, but I also wanted to
write a book that showed the human side of policing. I wanted to paint a vivid
picture that shows that police are people and illustrate how the loss of a
brother in blue affects them—not only on a professional level but more
importantly, on a personal one.
The characters in my book must carry on after a great
loss to find the person who killed their fellow officer. Their grief tears
apart relationships, changes people’s viewpoints, and has them acknowledging
their own mortality, just as it would anyone.
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AUTHOR BIO:
CAROLYN ARNOLD is an
international best-selling and award-winning author, as well as a speaker,
teacher, and inspirational mentor. She has four continuing fiction
series—Detective Madison Knight, Brandon Fisher FBI, McKinley Mysteries, and
Matthew Connor Adventures—and has written nearly thirty books. Her genre
diversity offers her readers everything from cozy to hard-boiled mysteries, and
thrillers to action adventures.
Both her female detective
and FBI profiler series have been praised by those in law enforcement as being
accurate and entertaining, leading her to adopt the trademark: POLICE
PROCEDURALS RESPECTED BY LAW ENFORCEMENT™.
Carolyn was born in a small
town and enjoys spending time outdoors, but she also loves the lights of a big
city. Grounded by her roots and lifted by her dreams, her overactive
imagination insists that she tell her stories. Her intention is to touch the
hearts of millions with her books, to entertain, inspire, and empower.
She currently lives just
west of Toronto with her husband and beagle and is a member of Crime Writers of
Canada.
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CONNECT WITH CAROLYN:
Website: http://carolynarnold.net/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Carolyn_Arnold
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ADDITIONAL INFO ON THE DETECTIVE MADISON KNIGHT SERIES:
This is the perfect book
series for fans of Law &
Order, CSI, Blue Bloods, Rizzoli & Isles, Women’s Murder Club, and Hawaii Five-O.
Read in any order or follow
the series from the beginning: Ties
That Bind, Justified, Sacrifice, Found Innocent, Just Cause, Deadly Impulse, In
the Line of Duty, Life Sentence (Bonus Prequel).
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can also visit the author’s McKinley Mysteries Series page: http://carolynarnold.net/detective-madison-knight-series/
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GIVEAWAY INFO:
Carolyn will be awarding $25.00 USD via PayPal
International to a randomly drawn winner via Rafflecopter, as well as 1
hardcover of Ties That Bind to another randomly drawn winner and 1 paperback
copy of Ties That Bind to one more randomly drawn winner - all via Rafflecopter.
These are available to the US, Canada, and the UK during the tour.
A hero has fallen, and hard-edged
detective Madison Knight will stop at nothing short of finding justice – even if
it means risking her own life.
Releasing 9.26.16
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Thanks for hosting!
ReplyDeletecongrats on the tour and thanks for the chance to win :)
ReplyDeleteWOW! Thank you for such an amazing post highlighting the Detective Madison Knight series and the latest release, IN THE LINE OF DUTY, coming out September 29th.
ReplyDeleteHoly crap! SOO Many new books! Carolyn, which was your favorite to write and why?
ReplyDeleteI loved writing every one of them, but I'm especially excited about sharing IN THE LINE OF DUTY with the world because I think it carries a good message. Police are people, too. Sometimes we can forget this.
DeleteSounds like a great series!
ReplyDelete--Trix
Thank you. :)
DeleteSounds like an awesome series - thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteThank you, Victoria.
DeleteYou're welcome :)
DeleteSounds like a fabulous series.
ReplyDeleteThank you.
Deletehope the tour is going great :)
ReplyDeleteIt just started, but I think it's off to a great start! :)
DeleteI really enjoyed reading the entire post, thank you!
ReplyDeleteShared on G+, have a great day!
ReplyDeleteThank you, Nikolina. :)
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