RIVER'S EDGE: Burt Reynolds picked Blue Hole and River's Edge for a movie. (Ozark Mountains Stories Book 2)
Cover design by: Paul MIddleton
"I loved MYSTERY SUSPENSE novels BLUE HOLE and the SEQUEL RIVER'S EDGE. I would read them again in a heart beat. ¤︠Exciting and hard to put down." One of over 500 five star reviews and 152,000 downloads.
@@@ What AMAZON KINDLE had to say .., "ROLLAND LOVE's writing transfigures his Ozark Mountains stories into a series of fantastic tales Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer could have only dreamed of.
Wonderful MARK TWAIN style of prose."
After I wrote Blue Hole and excellent reviews began to pour in I noticed some were upset because I did not solve a murder witnessed by brothers (12) year old Dub and (15) year old Tommy. This inspired me to write SEQUEL River's Edge and add a bizarre twist. I aged the two brothers by 50 years and made them Grandfathers who take their Grandsons to Blue Hole where a murder occurred the last time they were camped there in 1949. They become a family of cold case detectives. It's not easy to solve a (50) year old murder but they are up for the task.
Blue Hole and River's Edge are set in a remote area of the Ozark Mountains on the Jacks Fork River. A spring fed stream named by Life Magazine as one of the most scenic fishing and float streams in the world. (My series of Ozark Mountains stories provide a great way to got on a rustic adventure without leaving town.}
¤︠A typical comment, "Love's characters are so well done I could see them clearly in my mind's eye while I was reading."
Reviews:
œ"︎ - Excellent Read -
I found River's Edge difficult to put it down. It takes place in the Ozark Mountains, an area I have never been in. So the descriptions of the rugged hill country, animals and vegetation were of interest to me. This is a story that has a beginning, a complicated and lengthy middle plus an exciting end. It has a great deal of suspense and twists and turns. However it never feels contrived, just as true as happening in real life. I look forward to reading another book by the same author. By Cardi corgi momma "dog lover" (southern California) -
œ"︎ - Captivating -
€œI read Blue Hole and it was excellent Story Telling €¦ Captivating narrative and point of view through the eyes of a 15 year old boy. Accompanied by his younger brother they go on a camping trip. They encounter a series of startling events that force them to face their own inner fears. The tension grows as the story continues until the reader becomes almost afraid to turn the next page.
I'll be reading the SEQUEL River€s Edge, guaranteed.€ By Lloyd Tackitt, book reviewer.
Prologue:
€œIt all started with the discovery of a human leg bone grandson Nick found sticking out of a gravel bar and ended with, of all things, Tommy attending a sermon preached by brother Dub at his country church.
Tommy had a strange mission the first night he and his grandson€s were camped at the Blue Hole. He found himself outside the tent under the light of a full moon ready to dig up the human leg bone Nick had discovered.
He looked around when he thought he heard something behind him. He figured one of the boy€s might have crawled out of their tent. What would he say if they caught him digging? He wanted the bone for himself? His heart pounded and sweat ran into his eyes. He gritted his teeth when he pushed the shovels metal blade into the gravel. In the quiet darkness under the light of a full moon, the scraping sound was haunting.
He thought about the two men who were murdered the last time he and his brother, Dub, were camped there in the summer of 1949 when they were boy€s. What kind of strange event would it be, if fifty years later, the leg bone belonged to the killer?
