No secret stays buried forever.
When a torrential rainstorm uncovers a hidden corpse, small-town reporter Leah Nash is called in to cover the story.
The body is identified as Sister Mattea Riordan. Leah knew her. She was a nun who worked as an administrator at DeMoss Academy, the local school for troubled kids. The same school that Leah’s sister Lacey attended when she died in a tragic accident … when she died in a tragic accident five years earlier.
The property at DeMoss Academy includes a large woods and a stretch of bluffs high above the Himmel River. Investigators think it was from this location that Sister Mattea plunged to her death and drowned.
But that’s not the shocking part.
Just before she died, Sister Mattea sent Leah a cryptic message. And it had something to do with Leah’s sister…
What if Lacey’s death wasn’t an accident? What if it was a murder?
What if that same person killed Sister Mattea to cover their misdeeds?
That would mean the killer is still out there.
Now Leah is determined to uncover the truth.
Even if the killer comes after her next…
DANGEROUS HABITS is the first book in the Leah Nash series. Filled with suspenseful twists and turns, it will keep you guessing right up to the shocking end.
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Dangerous Habits by Susan Hunter is the first book in the Leah Nash mystery series. I wouldn’t call this a cozy mystery book, but a regular mystery. There’s a lot more action, as well as some situations that wouldn’t occur in a cozy mystery.
Dangerous Habits is set in small-town Wisconsin where Leah has returned home to work at the newspaper where she got her start. She lives with her mom. Leah is a great character. She’s intelligent but she tends to run her mouth a bit more than she should…she doesn’t have a filter and her mouth is usually what gets her in trouble. That, and her inability to let something go when she has a niggling idea.
There were so many plot twists in this book, and a few were quite unexpected. I loved the characters the author created and the small town of Himmel, Wisconsin. It’s one I am looking forward to visiting again soon.
The book itself is well-written. The story flows well and there were no glaring issues that stood out to me. Just a great mystery with enjoyable characters.
I picked up this book on Amazon for free and am voluntarily sharing my honest review.
A well-written page turner and good character development. Loved the twist at the end. This is #1 in a series of 4 with #5 coming soon. I highly recommend this author.
Thoroughly enjoyable and hard to put down.
Good series
Love the characters; am currently binge-reading all the other books in this series, one after the other!
Kept me wondering right to the end.
Keep writing Susan Hunter. I love this series! The characters are like neighborhood friends. Leah Nash has natural reporter instincts and curiosity that get her in trouble. Thank goodness she has friends to help her. She always finds the secrets.
We all feel Leah’s guilt. There are always things we wish we had done differently, especially when it comes to family.
I really wanted to help solve the mystery and I could not stop reading. Great book.
wow this story could happen to anyone. As this story begins to unfold i would ever expect the story to end as it did. If you like a good
mystery you will really enjoy this story.
Great mystery
tenacity pays. lots of roadblocks to overcome, but overcome she did.
Love this whole series. Susan Hunter is a wonderful writer.
There were so many plot twists in this book, and a few were quite unexpected. I read Dangerous Mistakes first, which is the second book in this series. I liked is it so much I had to go back and find Book 1. I love the characters the author created and the small town of Himmel, Wisconsin. Leah Nash is a journalist in her early 30’s, who does not suffer fools gladly or at all. At her previous job with a big-city newspaper, Leah refused to let a neurotic boss unjustly accuse her of a potentially criminal act. Thus, Leah finds herself back home in a shrinking community, covering small-town events. The story starts with Leah out in a storm watching to see if a tree floating down a flooded river will destroy the dam. In the process they make a grim discovery. The book itself is well-written and the story flows well. All the characters are unique and the interplay between them feels real. There’s never a lull in this book. It continues picking up more characters with dark past’s and a keen interest in keeping Leah off their trail. But I was never confused by who is who, or who is what to whom. Definitely looking forward to the next book.
Good story. I will follow the series
Good read
It had a good plot. I enjoyed reading it
I really didn’t see the ending coming! Still in my mind a few days later!
Leah Nash covers a rainstorm that turns into a dead body caught in a fallen tree. The body is of a nun that works at the DeMoss Academy. The strange thing is the dead nun left something at the newspaper office for Leah before she died and there was an old paper clipping with Leah’s sister’s death in it. What could the nun’s message be? This sends Leah on a path of destruction. There are many lives at risk in this story! I really enjoyed how everything weaved into themselves. Great start of a series!
Great book. A must read