Raging Water--same cover, re-edited--much larger print.

One thing I haven't mentioned with all the re-issuing of the Deputy Tempe Crabtree mysteries--they all are now the same size and have much bigger print. I think that's a real improvement.

Raging Water is set in Bear Creek which has a close resemblance to the town of Springville where I live. In this particular story, after monumental rains Bear Creek has become swollen and raging. The same thing has happened here with the Tule River that flows behind my house. Much more rain that we're used to and melting snow in the high country has made our usually small river treacherous.

In the story, not only has the river become a danger, but a huge mud slide has made the one and only road out of town impassable. 

One of my favorite characters in this one is Miqui Sherwood who is based on a friend of mine who begged to be in this book. Everything about Miquie from description, house and pets is based on my friends. She loved the depiction.

The two women who died under suspicious circumstances in the book are based on two real people whose deaths were called natural causes--but I wasn't so positive this was true. 

It's fun to re-read these books and remember why I wrote certain plot threads.

One of the reviews:

I'm not so sure Tempe Crabtree was not--in another life--a daughter of mine. (Though, so far as I know, I haven't an ounce of American Indian blood in me.)   Throughout this series, written by Marilyn Meredith, I have come to think I know Tempe very well, and to care about her.  Isn't it nice, if I want to claim her as kin, that she is so intelligent, so compassionate and loving, and such an interesting person? I know, I know, she's not perfect, but wouldn't she be boring if she were?

Of course, as a deputy sheriff in Bear Creek, California, Tempe does get into messy and dangerous situations.  Such is the case in RAGING WATERS.  What is so bizarre, and is nothing the author could have planned, is that I was reading the novel while Sandy was ravaging the east coast of the United States.  RAGING WATER not only gives Tempe the challenge of several home burglaries and two murders, but adds the complication of dangerous rainstorms and floods.  I read about the Bear Creek flooding, homes lost, people in danger, power out, then I saw the same thing on television.  Talk about reality fiction  (if there is such a term),  I was living it.

You will have the benefit remembering the storm problems you have seen on your television screen as you read RAGING WATER.  WOW, what an impact.   I recommend it highly.  –Review by Radine Trees Nehring in DorothyL

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Available as a trade paperback and for Kindle.