Notable author: Robin Caroll

 I started doing these posts to showcase and help spread the word about new authors that impress me, and also about authors that are not new who impress me. I had intended to do one on an average of one a week, but tend to do them on days off whenever I feel like.  This is the second post this week, and is an author who is definitely not new to me: Robin Caroll.  I have been reading her books since March 2010, when I reviewed a book by her for Broadman and Holman: Deliver Us From Evil, the first book in The Evil Series. I cannot find a review for the second book...not sure why....but I did review the third book, and all three books in the Justice Seekers Series, the other series she did for B&H.....which I just re-read yesterday and today. And it was even better than I remembered. Caroll wrote it about three siblings, one brother, and two sisters: Rafe Baxter: FBI Riley Baxter: Investigative reporter Madison Baxter: Forensic expert These books are romantic suspense, so the author came up with some great romantic interests for them: Remington Wyatt: a woman on the run Hayden Simpson: Police commissioner Nick Hagar: FBI Special Agent in Charge   I read the first two yesterday, and the third today. I will admit I couldn't remember anything as I read, but I read and reviewed two of them in 2012, and the third in 2013. They are super good, and I am glad I re-read them. There is also a novella that seems to be only available in e-book that follows the three books: The Christmas Bell Tolls.  Caroll's first published book was Bayou Justice in 2007, if I got the date correct. It was written for Steeple Hill, now Love Inspired, a Christian line of books from Harlequin publishing. That book became a series of six books, all written for Steeple Hill. A few years back - 2016, I believe - the author had them re-published in trade paperback. (They were mass market before).  I read the series in mass market, but liked them well enough that I ordered the newer versions, and plan on reading the series again. All six books have Bayou in the title, and is an excellent series. Her most notable books in recent years - at least in my opinion - is her Darkwater Inn Series, and is a series that brought out the author's inner evil. Just kidding....but she did something with this series that had her readers writhing in agony. OK, maybe that is an exaggeration......  There are three books in the series:  Darkwater Secrets Darkwater Lies Darkwater Truth   The main character is Adelaide Fountaine, who is the manager of Darkwater Inn, an inn in the French Quarter of New Orleans.  There are two other main characters: Dimitri Pampalon, co-worker of Adelaide Detective Bear Sovoie, childhood friend and long time friend of Aledlaide. Both guys are in love with Adelaide, and she is half in love with both. And you know when the author reveals which guy she picks? On page 286 of the third book. And guess what page 286 is.....the very last page of the the last book. Sigh. Cruel and unusual punishment, of course.