A USA Today Best Seller in 2016A Best Kindle Book of 2014A Top Must Read for the 100th Anniversary of the National Park ServiceJourdan is also a Top-10 in the USA bestselling author of audio books on Audible and a 5-time Top-10 in the USA Wall Street Journal bestselling author. In Out on a Limb Phoebe McFarland has just moved back to her hometown of White Oak, Tennessee, a sleepy rural community … her hometown of White Oak, Tennessee, a sleepy rural community nestled in the mist-shrouded ridges and isolated hollows of the Smoky Mountains.
Now she spends her days working as a rural home health care nurse, making calls on a quirky roster of housebound characters she’s determined to take care of whether they cooperate or not.
She applies this same optimism to her love life, despite the fact that she’s been dating for 38 years without locating any husband material. When she runs into her childhood sweetheart, Henry Matthews, a wildlife ranger for the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, it looks like she might’ve found her man.
But Phoebe and Henry’s chance for romance has to be put on hold while they undertake a desperate search for a young woman who mysteriously vanished from the park during a gathering of world famous biologists and botanists, including a charismatic Frog Whisperer.
Out on a Limb is a mystery that takes place in the same Smoky Mountain world as her three national bestsellers Heart in the Right Place, Medicine Men, and Bear in the Back Seat.
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Quick read to entertain yourself.
Couldn’t put it down. Kept me guessing, also.
vivid writing of life and surroundings; weather and seasons depicted in the Appalachians.
I liked this book, it was easy to read, yet it quietly built to the end. I didn’t figure out the ending, which I loved.
Did not like this book.
This is a unique read for a mystery . It is also deeply detailed in the telling of life in the Smokey Mountains…the people, their lives, and the land…lots of descriptions of the land.. you can feel the moisture, see the trees going on forever and realize why people live there than anywhere else.
You see the area through the eyes of a nurse, …
Written very simply. Not very much to keep the reader involved
Not very suspenseful. Only good in spots, but digressed from the main plot constantly.
I enjoyed this book especially since I live very close to the Smoky Mountains. The ending could have had a little more detail and tied up all the loose ends
Quick read. Good characters. Interesting location.