The Heart of the Matter

By: James Greer

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins

Publisher's summary

A severed appendage washes ashore; its owner’s demise is quickly ruled a suicide. Sheriff’s Deputy Karen Sorenson’s heart doesn’t want to believe that conclusion. The Heart of the Matter is a suspense novel, the sequel to the successful first Karen Sorenson novel, Out of Ideas. Karen and her airline pilot fiancé Adam Phlatt left Wisconsin after battling international smugglers. They settled near friends, walking distance from the sugar sands and blue waters of Naples, Florida. A wedding, a child on the way, their lives finally settling into a comfortable predictability. Bliss, only blocks from the Gulf Coast she loves. Then, her friend dies. Karen fights her organization’s desire for speedy, uncomplicated answers. She struggles to fit into her new work environment, knowing that a sharp, public departure from departmental orthodoxy could cause her to be ostracized, or worse. All the while she is consumed with doubts about her fitness as an expectant mother. Her sheriff’s department renders its sad verdict about her buddy – suicide - and she returns to her cubicle, awaiting the birth of her first child. A phone call interrupts the mind-numbing, mundane office work. Her friend’s widow extends an invitation to coffee. The woman flails wild accusations about her husband’s “murder.” But… The woman admits she was unfaithful. Is she a victim, an accessory…or the suspect? Fate works against Karen. Multiple conflicting clues - a mysterious blonde woman vanishes just as she becomes a person of interest, a scruffy man on a plane and a shrimp boat with a shady reputation – confound as much as they illuminate. It all ends fifty miles out to sea, with Karen facing determined killers while surrounded only by teenage Coast Guardsmen and the raw elements of a Gulf storm.