Works by
Gerrie Ferris Finger
(Writer)

Fiction

• The End Game (April 27, 2010 release) -- Winner 2008 St. Martin's Press First Traditional Mystery Competition

The Laura Kate Plantation Series

1. Look Away From Evil (2000)
   A death in the family calls Laura Kate O’Connell home to South Georgia from Scotland, where she is reporting on a story. This is the third time in four years her career has been interrupted for a tragedy in her dwindling family. Since childhood she’s sensed an unpleasant undercurrent in “one of the craziest family setups this side of Louisiana.” The death of her beloved uncle spurs her to find out what’s causing it.
   
   Her cousin, John Langey, a writer, picks her up at the Atlanta airport. As they head south, John tells her more about the patriarch of her powerful Southern aristocratic family, and his two wives, than she’d ever known. Still, she struggles to understand why Wallace Langey divorced her mother’s sister, Eleanor O’Connell, and married Margot Watts. Did Eleanor reject him? Did he love the beautiful Margot that much? Or was it something more sinister?
   
   For over thirty years Wallace’s two families have lived on the same plantation, Live Oaks, hating each other. Laura Kate grew up calling Margot and Wallace’s children “the taint.” But then she meets – and becomes captivated by – their son, Denver.

2. When Serpents Die (2009, Amazon Kindle Edition)
   Also available from Desert Breeze Publishing
   Laura Kate O'Connell left her life of excitement as an overseas news correspondent to return to her Georgia hometown to raise her two young cousins.
   
   When Royce Lee, Laura Kate's attorney, supposedly commits suicide, too many pieces of evidence tell a different story. Her instincts as an investigative reporting are tingling, and she just can't leave it alone. She meets Jack Rhodes, Royce's business partner. Sparks fly, but can she really trust a man she knows nothing about? And why is it that every time something new develops in the case, he seems to be there?
   
   Warnings to back off escalate to an attempt on her life. Now, for Laura Kate, it's more than just a mystery.
   
   Depending on Jack might be a mistake, but if Laura Kate can get past his southern charms and the nervous way Jack makes her feel, she may get the facts, solve the case, and even save her own life.

3. Honored Daughters (2009, Amazon Kindle Edition)
   Also available from Desert Breeze Publishing

   While Jack Rhodes is in London, Laura Kate O'Connell is tussling with a life-changing decision. Jack has asked her to marry him. Love him as she does, marriage and babies has never been in her life plan.
   
   A law enforcement agent asks Laura Kate to find out who killed his niece, one of several students at Honored Daughters who have died mysteriously.
   
   Jack can't know she's involved, or he'd be on the next plane home.
   
   To complicate the situation, a former soldier-turned-militia-organizer, Pearse Macaula, falls for and stalks her. He's dangerous, but did he murder the Honored Daughters girls? She must trust him to find out, while brushing off his advances. This is a man who always gets his way.
   
   Will Pearse try to kill her if he can't have her? It's a chance she has to take.