Judith A Barrett

Spirits are high in the anticipation of Christmas and snow at the four Georgia farms until impending danger looms.When a cartel leader targets one of their own five days before Christmas, Stuart, Angel, and their team intend to take advantage of the rivalry between the two battalions of killers and stir them up against each other. Risky plan, and the stakes are high. If they fail, all the families at the farms will be slaughtered.

Riley, vet tech and dog whisperer, races with death to save a friend's husband, but is she racing to her own death? The killer waits: Riley must die.As Riley searches for her friend's husband after he disappears, one of his coworkers is murdered, and Ben's former girlfriend gives Riley the reports she stole from her boss before he was killed. After Riley receives a text from a previously unreliable source warning her to be careful, she is the only one who can puts together all the pieces, if she can survive. The murderer closes in for the kill.

Riley Malloy, vet tech and dog whisperer, suspects her father's death seven years ago was not an accident. The killer waits for an opening to kill Riley.Riley is the only person alive who can solve long-ago murders and expose the crimes of an international ring. Complication: Riley doesn't realize the significance of her grandmother's letter or the documents she finds or how desperately her unknown enemy watches and waits for the opportunity to destroy the evidence and kill Riley.

Runaway girls. Calculating charmers. Human trafficking. Maggie sees the link; the kingpin sees her as an easy kill.Maggie's on the trail of a human trafficking organization that she believes includes a ring of kidnappers and charismatic men that lure vulnerable women to a remote "resort." When friends die in their efforts to uncover the criminals, Maggie steps up her game; as young, one-eyed Maggie closes in, the mastermind is confident she'll step into his trap and die.

The unstoppable team: Deputy Stuart, Aimee Louise, and Rosalie are on the road to Georgia. Still no electricity; lawlessness still rules. Their fight for survival continues in Book 3 of the Grid Down Survival saga.Deputy Stuart and his team travel to Georgia to pick up the badly injured team that was ambushed. Vicious roadside attacks plague their trip. As Stuart and his team uncover the truth about the seemingly random multistate kidnappings, the violence escalates, and everyone at Stuart's family farm is in jeopardy.As Stuart, Aimee Louise, and Rosalie close in on the human trafficking ring, the desperate gang leader becomes obsessed to kill.

A retired State Trooper's fight for his family's survival continues in Book 2 of the Grid Down Survival saga. Major Elliott has run out of time. The power grid's about to fail. The economy teeters on collapse. And life on his farm is about to come to a devastating end. When Major and his team travel to help a badly injured farmer, they're plagued by vicious roadside attacks. Worse is the disturbing sighting of a truck filled with children-wearing masks. And as an old nemesis gains release from prison and resumes his former job, Major's convinced his enemy is the mastermind behind the electrical system's imminent destruction, the scam to steal farms, and the blackmailing of law enforcement officers. Haunted by the memories of the wide-eyed, masked children, Major vows to discover their plight and sets a trap, but has he taken the bait to become his enemy's next victim in a deadly ambush?

MAGGIE's fight for survival continues in Book Three of the Maggie Sloan Mystery Series saga.Sudden attacks on Maggie escalate. Someone wants her dead. Maggie, Larry, and her team investigate the puzzling clues that point to a long ago, unsolved theft of famous works of art from an art museum, but how is an old theft related to the attacks and a series of fires? Maggie intends to discover the truth. Her unknown enemy intends for her to die.

Stuart and Aimee Louise scrap their plans to return to Florida and stay on the farm in Georgia when their neighbors fall victim to home invasions and murder. After the ruthless killers halt all travel with roadblocks and the attacks escalate, Stuart and Aimee Louise suspect an unknown killer has targeted someone on their team. When the callous enemy closes in, Stuart, Aimee Louise, and their team of farmers and former law officers prepare for the vicious onslaught. The killer prepares a team to slaughter the target and anyone else who gets in the way while Stuart and Aimee Louise set a trap.

MAGGIE's fight for survival continues in Book 4 of the MAGGIE SLOAN MYSTERY SERIES saga. Maggie uses her uncanny skills and talents to navigate through the conflicting lies, half-truths, and clues to piece together the seemingly unrelated deaths at a senior center's staff and residents, real and fake jewelry, a fire, and a near-fatal attack on her. Maggie counts on the killer to underestimate her skills as she narrows her suspect list. The killer intends for her to die.

Donut Lady faces new challenges in the exciting saga of the DONUT LADY MYSTERY SERIES, BOOK 4.Donut Lady's life depends on her memories of her conniving ex-husband. The silent stalker intends for her to die.The past haunts the Donut Lady when her dead husband's sketchy brother arrives in town after he blocked her appeal to overturn her wrongful conviction. To add to her troubles, her self-designated protector, Jack, is arrested for assault on the taunting, no-good ex-brother-in-law who is later found dead in Jack's yard.Where does a counterfeiter fit in the puzzle? Only the dead husband knows.

Convicted felon Karen O'Brien completes her prison sentence, but she can't shake the haunting shadows and terrifying nightmares or walk away from her prison ties after a close friend is murdered. She moves to her hometown in southern Georgia and buys a charming, old-fashioned donut shop, complete with the owner's dog, cat, and secret recipes. Karen O'Brien begins her new life as the Donut Lady. Karen's struggles to solve the prison murder and adapt to civilian life become even more complicated when a neglected boy suddenly disappears from his sketchy living conditions.While the Donut Lady searches for the missing boy and pursues clues to solve the prison murder, the killer stalks her.

MAGGIE SLOAN. Former librarian, self-trained spy, and breakfast cook has the skills of a deadly assassin. When brilliant, literal Maggie is the only person a missing spy trusts, she agrees to go to Galveston, Texas for two weeks to find him. Her unforgettable team and Larry, a police officer from her hometown, accompany her.Maggie, aka Gray Lady, wears her new red Western boots to blend in as a fill-in lunch cook at a diner. Before the end of the week, she's been shot, and the attacks escalate. Maggie, Larry, and Maggie's men are determined to stop the assailants.Maggie's trusted contacts are few, and she and Larry struggle through the disturbing clues that indicate the guilt of everyone they meet. How does her sheer presence threaten the unknown operation of a hidden leader and his thugs? How many more people will die before Maggie uncovers the vicious criminal who has eluded discovery for so long?

KAREN O'BRIEN, DONUT LADY, has a knack for being at the wrong place at the right time. Does she get too close to revealing the truth? She witnesses a sketchy incident involving a good friend's estranged husband. A drug deal? The man turns up dead on his wife's porch. Was he murdered? Did the wife do it? After a second murder, DONUT LADY falls under suspicion, but is she actually the next target? Jack, her self-designated protector, can't be everywhere. Her nightmares saved her once, but the murderer takes it to a personal level. She's on her own.