Every Deadly Suspicion
by Janice Cantore
Pub Date: March 4, 2025
Thanks to the author, publisher and NetGalley for the ARC of this book in exchange for my honest opinion.
Thirty years after a federal agent and two suspects disappeared in the wilderness, the case is cold, and they’ve never been found. Now their suspected killer is about to go free. But is the truth really what it seems?
Excellent book that I enjoyed reading!
I appreciate the author's experience as a retired Long Beach police officer. I think it adds credence to her suspense novels and keeps me engrossed in the story. I also like the inspiring nature of this book. I have also enjoyed her Pacific Coast Justice Series and LIne of Duty series.

EVERY DEADLY SUSPICION by JANET CANTORE is an exciting thriller with a really good Christian message of forgiveness and redemption. The story is fast paced and will really keep you guessing, and the characters are well portrayed.
Hanna Keyes, chief of police in Dry Oaks, has spent her life under the cloud of her father Joe’s conviction of the murder of Blake and Sophia Carson, her best friend Mandy’s parents, at the Beecher’s Mine Cabin. Mandy and Jared Hodges stood up for her against the bullies at school, who called her the “spawn of Satan”, amongst other things. She has done well for herself and is now well loved and respected by most of the inhabitants of Dry Oak. She is broken-hearted when Jared leaves to see the world, but when he comes back after ten years he is a changed man……
Blogger and wannabe author, Marcus Marshall, has written a book about Joe and the murders, which has been taken to be the truth by many people. Marcus, who some people call Muckraker, is just that, stirring up trouble, especially when Joe gets compassionate parole and comes to stay with his daughter, who has never met him and whose mother badmouthed him to her all her life. …….
There is a huge fire, the murder of Scott Buckley, and the murder of women by “The Lonely Heart Killer”, all of which keep Hanna, Jared and Nathan Sharp, her boyfriend, and their colleages very busy……
I am not going to tell you any more for fear of spoiling things for you.
I was given an ARC by NetGalley and Tyndale House Publishers. The opinions in this review are completely my own.

This novel has a strong female at the center. This is a good mystery without the sex and gore that other books contain.

Police chief Hanna Keyes has never know her father because he has been in prison her whole life. Now he is dying and being released in her care. Is he guilty or not? Things aren’t adding up and there is a murderer on the loose. This is an inspirational romantic suspense. I enjoyed this book and would read more about Hanna and her friends.