Emerald Ridge: A Max Blake Mystery

A fast-paced twist-and-turn sleigh ride of story-telling meticulously plotted and beautifully written. Hard-boiled detective and former muck-raking journalist Max Blakes discovery of a long-dreaded postcard from Ireland tucked into his mailbox one morning is the catalyst that touches off a cross-continent search for his fiancées favorite uncle. The Rev. Sean Jack OLennox the archbishop of St. Patricks Roman Catholic Cathedral in Armagh Northern Ireland is missing and the postcard - a pre-arranged signal - is his apparent cry for help. Max is prepared to do everything in his considerable power to help Caeli Brown his longtime partner in the Blake & Brown Detective Agency and soon-to-be wife. But she slips off to Ireland without him and he is left with a double quandary: finding Caeli and then determining the fate of the archbishop a complicated man who believes that British-held Ulster should be returned to the Irish Republic by any means necessary. EMERALD RIDGE is a thrill-a-minute sleigh-ride that features unforgettable characters sleight-of-hand twists and turns providing surprise after revelation after bombshell. Toss in a love story and you have what it takes for a riveting Max Blake Mystery.