Black Willows
Trapnell Thriller Book 2
by Jill Hand
Genre: Thriller
A mysterious cowboy is stalking the eccentric Trapnell siblings. Is he a
supernatural entity or a hired killer? To complicate things, the will making
them heirs to their billionaire father’s estate is missing and a relative
has returned from a watery grave.
Last time, the Trapnells saved the world from destruction. This time
they may not be able to save themselves. Black Willows is a darkly funny Southern-fried adventure, complete with
Voodoo, arson, and alligators.
“And then,” Palmer Trapnell told an architect named Chase
Merriweather, “An alarm will sound, one of those that goes aoogah! aoogah! The room will start
filling up with ice-cold water and everyone will have to swim to safety. What
do you think of that?"
Merriweather
looked over Palmer’s shoulder to where her husband stood. Trainor Trapnell was
shaking his head and frantically waving his hands, as if to say, No way! That’s
insane!
“Well,”
the architect said cautiously. “It’s an interesting concept.”
“I
know! Escape rooms are popular right now. My friend Chandler Woodbury has one.
It’s at Lakeland Mall, between Razzle-Dazzle Doughnuts and Sweet and Sassy
Lingerie, where that store that sold things like blacklight posters and lava
lamps used to be. You have to find clues to figure out how to escape from a
room done up like a library in a spooky old mansion. This will be much better.”
Palmer
beamed complacently. Her sandy blonde hair was cut in an asymmetrical style
popularized by an actress with a starring role in a daytime television drama.
Palmer was a former dog groomer who had advanced several rungs up the social
ladder by marrying Trainor. With her bright pink lipstick and Lilly Pulitzer
twin set, she was the apotheosis of an affluent young Atlanta matron.
Palmer and Chandler Woodbury, ostensibly friends, were
locked in a mortal combat of one-upmanship. If Chandler had an escape room then
Palmer wanted a better one.
“But
the logistics,” Trainor said desperately. He drew up a chair and seated himself
next to his wife at the polished mahogany conference table in Merriweather’s
office. He spread his hands in mute appeal to the architect to put an end to
this nonsense. “That’s what they’re called, right? Logistics? Ways of doin’
things? You can’t fill up a room up with water and make people swim out. It’s
not safe. What if somebody drowns? And how do you empty the water out afterwards?
I don’t see it.”
He turned to
Palmer who had folded her arms across her chest and was pouting. “I’m sorry,
Chicken Legs, but I think it might be illegal.”
White Oaks
Trapnell Thriller Book 1
“An ingeniously dark comic thriller about greed, gluttony and murder
that is destined for the big screen.” –Best Thrillers
Aimee Trapnell reluctantly leaves her apartment on Manhattan’s Central Park
West to return to her childhood home in Georgia for her father’s ninetieth
birthday. Also on hand are her two brothers, wily Marsh and ne’er-do-well
Trainor. With a forty-billion-dollar inheritance at stake, they’re willing
to do whatever it takes to make the old man happy.
To their shock they learn that what their father wants for his birthday is
to kill someone. He doesn’t care who it is. He just wants to know what it’s
like to commit murder.
Betrayal, double-dealing, and fast-paced action set the Trapnells on a
collision course with an unexpected villain. Their journey takes them from
the swamps of Georgia, to Italy’s glittering Amalfi coast, to rugged
Yellowstone National Park.
Jill Hand is a member of International Thriller Writers. Her Southern
Gothic novels, White Oaks, and Black Willows, are available on Amazon and
from the publisher, Black Rose Writing.
Advance readers called White Oaks a fast-paced, hilarious account of
three siblings who are competing for their father's forty-billion-dollar
fortune while trying to prevent the destruction of Planet Earth.
Diane Donovan, senior reviewer from Midwest Book Review praised White
Oaks, calling it, "an unusually multifaceted tale that holds the ability
to prompt laughter from thriller-style tension."
A sequel to White Oaks, Black Willows, follows the adventures of the
squabbling, dysfunctional Trapnell family.
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