The Devil Can Wait: Sam Harper Crime Mystery

by: Marta Stephens

Published by: BeWrite Books

Reviewed by Patricia E. Reid

Boys are dying in Chandler, Massachusetts and their deaths are not natural. Teenagers are being murdered, and Detective Sam Harper is running into dead ends in his pursuit of the killer. Sam and his partner Dave Mann can’t even find a connection to help them understand the reason behind the deaths of these boys.

Finally the medical examiner finds a small connection that leads Sam and Dave to a location that might have been the place of the murders. A suspect is arrested but no hard evidence is found to charge him with the murders.

Jennifer Blake, a newspaper reporter, is running up against a wall in attempting to get a story out of Sam but all that changes abruptly when Jennifer agrees to do an old college professor a favor. She picks up a ring at a pawnshop, and that little favor plunges her into the middle of a murder investigation headed up by Sam.

Can there possibly be a connection between a black pearl ring picked up by Jennifer as a favor and the deaths of the young boys? Jennifer has placed herself in grave danger just by doing her old professor a favor. More than one person desires to possess the ring and will doing anything to have it.

The mystery of the murders and that of the ring and its history, make for an exciting story. This book is a stand-alone but I read Silenced Cry, the first Sam Harper book first, and was glad I did.

Armchair Interviews says: A mystery with a lot happening to keep any reader interested.

Author’s Web site: http://www.MartaStephens-author.com