The Missing Daughter Mystery by C.H.Sessums Book Review!

 

Jenny uses the excuse of a new case to set off on a romantic visit, but when things take a shocking twist, she heads back to Texas to follow a lead and avoid complications…

Dad and I take to the rails and head north on a new assignment to protect a highly insured diamond. I’m eager for the chance to spend time with my handsome friend Lee Gorham, but a surprise request is made just at the moment the priceless diamond disappears.

At the last minute, I jump onto another train heading south, but a strange turn of events might not only derail my plans but threaten my life, too.

Can Dad and I find the missing piece to the puzzle before the diamond and I are both gone for good? 

C.H. SESSUMS is a pen name for USA Today Bestselling Author Olivia Hardin. While Olivia writes all manner of romance, C.H. scribbles out cozy mysteries set in her beloved state of Texas. Whether exploring urban legends from all over the lone star state or solving capers set in far-off times, mystery meets history in all of her stories.

In real life, C.H. lives in gorgeous East Texas with her hubby and their two rescue dogs. Every weekend all four of them pile up into their bunkhouse to watch classic movies and listen to old-time radio.

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My Thoughts

The Missing Daughter Mystery is a book from the J.D.Pierson Case Files of which six novels include The Missing Daughter Mystery. Bet you thought the book was about a missing daughter. You would be wrong, Jenny and her father, also J.D. take on a case for an insurance company about a missing diamond ring, the Daughter diamond. Thus named because the original owner had all sons and wanted a daughter, so he named the diamond Daughter.

The Daughter was reported missing and Jenny and her father are on the case. Then they find out that the diamond ring was not actually missing, it had been put where it was supposed to go, in a safe. An employee of the owner took it upon herself to do what she thought was right, put the ring in the safe where it would be safe. Unfortunately for her because of this, she was fired. 

The owner of the diamond is a nasty piece of work, an entitled woman who feels everyone around her is at her beck and call. Too bad for her but she ends up dead in the room that Jenny had occupied before she left to talk to some people. Now, who would kill this woman, and what happened to the ring?

Jenny, her father, and their dog, a Corgi, take to the rails to see talk to people who may know where this missing diamond is. Unfortunately, while Jenny is on her own on the train, she gets ill and her father is told that she was not on the train at all. Now her father has all he can do is find Jenny. 

There is also a romantic element to the story, Jenny is asked by her beau, Lee to marry him. She needs time to think about it, of course, she isn't just going to jump into marriage to someone that she thinks she loves but is not sure about. So now all she needs to do is find the diamond, find out who killed the owner, and get back home to her father and beau. Of course things are not always cut and dried. someone is out to harm her.

This book was a short fast read, I liked the simplicity of it in a time with cell phones and computers, a bit of a simpler life. But still, greedy jealous people who want what they can't have. Jenny and her father are perfect partners, with respect on both sides. I did enjoy it, read it in one sitting. I think that reading the other five novels in this series is a must!

I give it 4 stars.

I received a copy of the book for review purposes only.