Miranda Nights by Gail Ward Olsted Book Review!

 

She has a loving husband and a successful career–who says you can’t have it all? Miranda Quinn is living her very best life… until she’s not.

It’s been two years since her legal advice TV show was canceled, but the former Assistant District Attorney has rebounded with a late-night radio show, Miranda Nights. When her closest friend’s teenaged son gets arrested, Miranda tries to help but the evidence against him is overwhelming. Following a family member’s medical diagnosis, Miranda begins to wonder if her ‘happily ever after’ has been canceled as well.

But the real trouble arrives when a persistent caller, desperate for Miranda’s attention, embarks on an all-out effort to get her to see the error of her ways. Threatening messages and slanderous social media posts escalate to break-ins and arson when a fanatical fan claims to be her only path to salvation.

Miranda Nights is a fast-paced, witty story full of hidden dangers, with a strong and resilient woman at its core.

Gail Ward Olmsted was a marketing executive and a college professor before she began writing fiction on a fulltime basis. A trip to Sedona, AZ inspired her first novel Jeep Tour. Three more novels followed before she began Landscape of a Marriage, a biographical work of fiction featuring landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted, a distant cousin of her husband’s, and his wife Mary.

Her latest is 'Miranda Writes' a contemporary novel with a legal twist about a disgraced former ADA seeking a career comeback.

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My Thoughts

Miranda Nights is the continuation of Miranda Writes. Miranda Quinn had a TV show where she gave out legal advice, but it was canceled, she still wanted to help people in trouble with the law. She now has a nighttime call-in show offering advice. Everything in her life is going pretty smoothly, she has a loving husband and her nighttime call-in show is successful; until she starts getting weird phone calls.

She starts getting notes and calls from someone, who changes his name each time. She is a bit concerned at first, thinking that this may have something to do with putting someone in prison when she was a D.A. It appears that this caller is intent on being her savior and having her see the error of her ways.

At first, she kind of brushed it off thinking it was just a crank caller but things got serious when her home was broken into on one occasion and a fire set in her backyard in another.

To top off that her best friend's son is arrested for pornography, taking and posting nude pics on social media. She takes on the case and is determined to help her friend's son, but as she digs deeper when finds that it is not just some nude pics of a boyfriend and girlfriend, but something more sinister.

So now it is up to Miranda to set things right, along with her husband and a remarkable cast of characters, that is just what Miranda does. 

I love that this was a sequel or book #2? Regardless I do look forward to the next book if there will be one! I love the authors writing, kind of pulls the reader right into the story. I love a book that has strong women in it.

I give the book 5 stars

I received a copy for review purposes only!