Back On Murder

Back On Murder
by:  J. Mark Bertrand

A missing girl.
A corrupt investigation.

They thought they could get away with it, but they forgot one thing:

Roland March is BACK ON MURDER

Houston homicide detective Roland March was once one of the best. Now he's disillusioned, cynical, and on his way out. His superiors farm him out on a variety of punishment details•until an unexpected break gives March one last chance to save his career. And his humanity.

All he has to do? Find the missing teenage daughter of a Houston evangelist that every cop in town is already looking for. But March has an inside track, a multiple murder nobody else thinks is connected. Battling a new partner, an old nemesis, and the demons of his past, getting to the truth could cost March everything. Even his life.

Mark Bertrand has an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Houston. After one hurricane too many, he left Houston and relocated with his wife Laurie to the plains of South Dakota. For more information, visit www.jmarkbertrand.com 


My Review:  I enjoyed this fast-paced action book.  It was full of suspense and I had a great time trying to figure out the ending.  The main character was intriguing;  he was cynical and and a broken fragment of the popular man that he used to be.  I am looking forward to reading more books in the Roland March series!

***Book has been provided courtesy of Baker Publishing Group and Graf-Martin Communications Inc.  Available now at your favorite bookseller from Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group***

Changes (again!)

***There was a problem viewing the pictures before so I have tried to copy them in a different way this time!***

I have been very slow to update my blog, what with the water "issues" in our old house right before the move. Here's a collage of photos to show the basement in the middle of the demolition process. They essentially ripped out a section of the walls (which were ugly panelling anyways), tore out cupboards (aka the bar), and although I don't have pictures of the completed demos they also took out the shower as well. The new owners should be able to proceed with their repairs very shortly, once the construction estimate is finished.

Here's another collage of our old house. We sure grew to love this house. It was open and very spacious and it also had LOTS of built in storage (most of which I thought I would never use... and now I miss SO MUCH). The day we moved into this house was the day that Brie started walking on her own. Definitely lots of good memories in here, right from the very first day. It's always difficult to walk away from those memories but I am so very thankful for our camcorder to help us remember.

Some pictures are before packing and some are after. It's amazing how quickly our contents were reduced to boxes. There was some stress as the packers came a day earlier than anticipated but it all worked out alright in the end.

And now for our new home. As of today we have been here for 2 weeks already. We have already done some painting (there was WAY too much of that mustard color, including on the ceilings!) and made some smaller purchases in order to make this space our own. I will show the "after" photos another time, but for now you can see what it looked like on the day we moved in.

We are beginning to make this our home and I absolutely love the bright open concept that we get to enjoy here, especially the brand new kitchen! The girls are really enjoying their bunkbed and sharing a room with each other. We also bought them a trampoline on the weekend, to replace their old swingset which we sold before we moved. It has been a big hit!