Description
Valerie McCormick is a wife and mother
from small town Canada. While visiting Seattle, she becomes the only
witness to the brutal seaside murder of two FBI agents. When she flees
to the nearest police station to report the crime, she becomes caught up
in a web of international intrigue and danger. Suddenly, she and her
family are in the sights of ruthless criminals bent on preventing her
from testifying against the murderer. Even with FBI protection, Valerie
is not safe. Whisked away from her family and all that is familiar to
her, Valerie fights back against the well intentioned FBI to ultimately
take control over her life with every ounce of fury a mother can possess
Praise and Reviews
Dead Witness – Review by Martha A. Cheves, Author of Stir, Laugh, Repeat
‘A long, narrow building, beyond the small shed, blocked her view.
Valerie inched past a rusty engine leaning against the hut and peeked
around the corner. Two men in black tee shirts and black pants stood
at the stern of the sleek cabin cruiser docked at the wharf. Three
more men stood on the pier: One young, one old, one dangerously
attractive. Facing her, she could see he was perfect, in fact.
Except, why was he wearing a long, tan raincoat? Maybe she wasn’t the
only unprepared foreigner. No way would she interrupt their business.
Two of them walked way. Mr. Perfect, the handsome Latino in the tan
raincoat, smiled after them. His sensuous, slightly accented voice
broke the silence. “Gentlemen, please. It has been my experience that
even in times of indecision, a solution exists.” His arms spread wide
as if to embrace them. The two men stopped and turned back. Still
smiling, the Latino reached inside his raincoat and pulled out a gun.
Valerie gawked at him. She heard a pop. The older man fell backward
onto the wharf. Pop. The younger man’s head exploded. The man in the
tan raincoat leaned down and fired a third bullet in the older man’s
head. The body twitched, then lay still.’
Valerie McCormick
is the mother of 3 beautiful daughters and wife to Ed. Ed owns a timber
business in their home town of Prince George, Canada. In the process
of trying to secure the business he runs across a possible client who
has his eyes set on a boat docked in Seattle, Washington, so when
Valerie wins a trip to Seattle, what better time to take pictures of the
boat with hopes of scoring brownie points with the client. But when
Valerie witnesses the murder of 2 men she decides she must do her duty
and report it to the police. To her relief, the police ended up
arresting Miguel DeOlmos on a traffic violation and now had him in
jail. To her disappointment, after the American FBI talked her into
testifying against DeOlmos, he ends up escaping during his trial. And
to make matters worse Miguel DeOlmos is the leader of one of the
largest drug cartels in the both North and South America. DeOlmos will
stop at nothing to keep from being tried in the US due to its death
penalty and it’s not beyond him to kill the only witness the FBI have
against him.
Author Joylene Nowell Butler took me on a ride
from Canada, Seattle, Nevada, California and then to Baja as FBI agent
Mike Canaday chases DeOlmos while still doing everything in his power
to keep Valerie alive. Valerie comes up with her own ideas of how to
capture DeOlmos and ends up in the clutches of his psycho brother
Vincente. Dead Witness is a superbly written murder mystery that has
everything from greed to murder to deceit and of course love. I
thoroughly enjoyed myself reading Dead Witness.