She hears footsteps approaching, then the clunk of a heavy lock. Her body is numb in the cold but she stands, determined to fight. A blinding light overpowers her, and the world goes black…

When Detective Katie Scott finds a woman dying in the car garage, blood pooling around her, she reaches her just in time to hear her utter the words: find my daughter.

Katie doesn’t waste a second gathering her team and pulling the case file for the missing child, Anna Braxton, a teen with sparkling blue-eyes and an even brighter future. Staring at the blank investigation board, Katie won’t rest until she fulfills Anna’s mother’s dying wish.

Searching the Braxton’s impeccable family home, Katie finds Anna’s journal, filled with teenage secrets. Buried among the pages, she thinks she finds a lead—a strange man reached out to Anna, just days before she went missing…

But the case takes a terrifying turn when Anna’s best friend also vanishes. Hours later, a girl’s body is found in the embers of a house fire, her yellow satin dress devastatingly beautiful amongst the ashes. Is it Anna, her best friend, or another girl?

One thing is certain: a monster has the closeknit community of Pine Valley in a chokehold, and Katie must get one step ahead of the killer before any more precious young lives are taken. But at what cost?

Find My Daughter is available at Amazon.

I have always loved the covers of Chase's books. Bookouture aces it every time. 

"“Please…” The woman grabbed Katie’s arm. “Please…” Her grip was strong, her eyes expressing her desperation. “You have to find her…”"

First of all, Katie Scott isn't a woman to be reckoned with. I so admire her! As detective with the Pine Valley Sheriff's department, she is finishing up her speech about criminal profiling at the California Law Enforcement Conference in Sacramento when an agitated woman walks up to her and demands to know why the department hasn't done more to find her daughter who I'm assuming has been missing. Katie agrees that the woman needs help with this and has it on her mind to look more into it. However, she's walking into the parking garage and hears a cry for help. It is the same woman who had just confronted her at the conference. Someone had stabbed her. Several times. The woman still conscious kept repeating "find my daughter, find my daughter." Then she says, “Find the million-dollar man… you’ll find my Anna…” The ambulance speeds away.

Whew, okay! And this is what I love about Jennifer Chase's books. I have got to know who the million dollar man is. I have to know if Katie finds out where the daughter is. I mean, is she dead? Of course we don't know that yet, but be still my heart! I will definitely keep reading!

The verdict is in; a famed athlete is headed for prison. The jurors have done their job and are free to go back to their lives. But after being sequestered for four months, life as some knew it no longer exists.

HAROLD ASHMAN’s house is almost destroyed by a careless driver. Exotic dancer, CEECEE LAINE, discovers that her boyfriend is two-timing her, and she no longer has a job. Actor ALEX MANNING learns his career is down the tubes, and 72-year-old, HELEN RYDER, discovers her family is plotting to put her in an old folks home.

Then things take a turn for the worse. When former jurors start dropping like flies, CeeCee, Helen, Harold and Alex are convinced there’s a killer on the loose. Now the feuding foursome must find him before he kills them—or before they save him the trouble by killing each other.

Jury Duty is Murder is available at Amazon.

I liked it to be honest. Colors work well, images are perfect.

"I longed to eat something other than fast-food and boring, tasteless hotel fare. Read an honest-to-goodness newspaper on my iPad and Google till I’m cross-eyed. Have a conversation not monitored by a court official. Forget, absolutely forget, that I helped put a man behind bars, or maybe even death row."

This first chapter is in the voice of one of the jurors named Harold aka Shoe. I don't know how I've been able to escape being called for jury duty, but if I were to be called, I would so be there. Harold makes great points about it not being as much fun as people think it might be - no phone, etc., but the psychological point of it probably is the worse. Should you deem them guilty, you have to live with that. I can't imagine being in control of someone's life like that. And Harold hated all aspects of it. So we have the trial over and Harold gets home, completely exhausted. Cameramen and journalists are outside his house wanting to know what it was like to give someone the death sentence. Then...an earthquake hits. I remember reading the book blurb and coming away thinking lots of things are going to happen to these jurors. Why I had no idea but in all seriousness, this is a book now I can't wait to read.

I really like how this book starts out. I'll be reviewing the whole book shortly but for a first chapter, it certainly had me intrigued. I will definitely be reading the rest of the book so stay tuned for that review.