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Saving Grace (A Katie Connell Caribbean Mystery): A What Doesn't Kill You Mystery Kindle Edition

by Pamela Fagan Hutchins (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

4.2 17,510 ratings

Book 1 of 13: What Doesn't Kill You

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When fate hands tightly wound attorney and certified hot mess Katie Connell an unexpected second chance in the Caribbean, will she find herself, or will a killer find her?

"Katie is the first character I have absolutely fallen in love with since Stephanie Plum!" -- Stephanie Swindell, Bookstore Owner

Texas attorney and sloppy drinker Katie Connell’s career just melted down before her eyes. After very public failure during a doomed celebrity trial and a heart-wrenching breakup, she avoids rehab by retreating to the tropical island where her parents tragically died. But when she arrives, it becomes obvious that her parents’ supposed accident was cold and calculated. As Katie sorts through the clues, she gets help from an unexpected source: a spirited house named Annalise. Between the kindred ghost, a local singing sensation, and a handsome chef, the quirks of the island throw the former attorney for a major loop. Can Katie pick up the pieces of her life and solve her parents’ murder as part of her fresh new start?

The Katie books have over 4000 reviews and a 4.5-star average. Available in digital, print, and audiobook.

Saving Grace is the first standalone book in the Katie Connell series and Book #1 within the What Doesn’t Kill You romantic mystery super series.

Once Upon A Romance calls Hutchins an "up-and-coming powerhouse writer." If you like Sandra Brown or Janet Evanovich, you will love USA Today Best Seller Pamela Fagan Hutchins. A former attorney and native Texan, Pamela lived in the U.S. Virgin Islands for nearly ten years. She refuses to admit to taking notes for this series during that time.

What Amazon readers are saying about the What Doesn't Kill You Mysteries:

"Unputdownable."
“Fair warning: clear your calendar before you pick it up because you won't be able to put it down.”
“Hutchins is a master of tension.”
“Intriguing mystery . . . captivating romance.”
“Everything shines: the plot, the characters and the writing. Readers are in for a real treat.”
 “Immediately hooked."
 "Spellbinding."
"Fast-paced mystery."
"Can't put it down."
“Entertaining, complex, and thought-provoking."
“Murder has never been so much fun!”
"You’re guaranteed to love the ride!"

Buy Saving Grace for a humorous mystery you can't put down today!

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What Doesn't Kill You: Katie Connell Texas-to-Caribbean Romantic Mysteries

"An exciting tale . . . twisting investigative and legal subplots . . . a character seeking redemption . . . an exhilarating mystery with a touch of voodoo." -- Midwest Book Review Bookwatch
"A lively romantic mystery." -- Kirkus Reviews
"A riveting drama . . . exciting read, highly recommended." -- Small Press Bookwatch"
"Katie is the first character I have absolutely fallen in love with since Stephanie Plum!" -- Stephanie Swindell, Bookstore Owner

About Pamela:

2020 Amazon Top 15 Best Seller
2020 Amazon Top 100 Author
2018 USA Today Best Seller
2017 Silver Falchion Award, Best Mystery
2016 USA Best Book Award, Cross-Genre Fiction
2015 USA Best Book Award, Cross-Genre Fiction
2014 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award Quarter-finalist, Romance

Praise for Pamela's other books:

What Doesn't Kill You: Emily Bernal Texas-to-New Mexico Romantic Mysteries

"You won't be able to put it down." -- Ken Oder, author of Old Wounds to the Heart
"Full of heart, humor, vivid characters, and suspense." -- Gay Yellen, author ofThe Body Business
"Hutchins is a master of tension." -- R.L. Nolen, author of Deadly Thyme
"Intriguing mystery . . . captivating romance." -- Patricia Flaherty Pagan, author of Trail Ways Pilgrim
"Everything about it shines: the plot, the characters and the writing." -- Marcy McKay, author of Pennies from Burger Heaven

What Doesn't Kill You: Michele Lopez Hanson Texas Romantic Mysteries

"Immediately hooked." -- Terry Sykes-Bradshaw, author of Sibling Revelry
"Spellbinding." -- Jo Bryan, Dry Creek Book Club
"Fast-paced mystery." -- Deb Krenzer, Book Reviewer
"Can't put it down." -- Cathy Bader, Reader

What Doesn't Kill You: Maggie Killian Texas-to-Wyoming Romantic Mysteries

"Maggie's gonna break your heart-one way or another." Tara Scheyer, Grammy-nominated musician, Long-Distance Sisters Book Club
"Nails that Wyoming scenery and captures the atmosphere of the people there." -- Ken Oder, author of Old Wounds to the Heart
"I thought I had it all figured out a time or two, but she kept me wondering right to the end." -- Ginger Copeland, power reader

What Doesn't Kill You: Ava Butler Caribbean Romantic Mysteries
"Just when I think I couldn't love another Pamela Fagan Hutchins novel more, along comes Ava." -- Marcy McKay, author of Stars Among the Dead
"Ava personifies bombshell in every sense of word. -- Tara Scheyer, Grammy-nominated musician, Long-Distance Sisters Book Club
"Entertaining, complex, and thought-provoking." -- Ginger Copeland, power reader

The Patrick Flint Series

Transports readers deep into the mountains of Wyoming for a thriller that has it all--wild animals, criminals, and one family willing to do whatever is necessary to protect its own. Hutchins writes with the authority of a woman who knows this world. She weaves the story with both nail-biting suspense and a healthy dose of humor. You won't want to miss it." -- Danielle Girard, Wall Street Journal-bestselling author of White Out

"As many twists and turns as a high-country trail. Every parent's nightmare is the loss or injury of a child, and this powerful novel taps into that primal fear." -- Reavis Z. Wortham, two time winner of The Spur and author of Hawke's Prey

"Starts at a gallop and had me holding on with both hands until the riveting finish. Highly atmospheric and nearly crackling with suspense. Highly recommend!" -- Libby Kirsch, Emmy awardwinning reporter and author of the Janet Black Mystery Series

"Best book I've read in a long time!" -- Kiersten Marquet, author of Reluctant Promises

What Amazon readers are saying:

"A Bob Ross painting with Alfred Hitchcock hidden among the trees."
"Edge-of-your seat nail biter."
"Unexpected twists!"
"Wow! Wow! Highly entertaining!"
"Beautifully descriptive, with an underlying story of human connection and family."
"Well drawn characters, great scenery, and a kept-me-on-the-edge-of-my-seat story!"
"Absolutely unputdownable wonder of a story."
"Must read!"
"Gripping story. Looking for book two!"
"Intense!"

About the Author

If you like Sandra Brown or Janet Evanovich, you will love USA Today Best Seller Pamela Fagan Hutchins. A former attorney and native Texan, Pamela lived in the U.S. Virgin Islands for nearly ten years. She refuses to admit to taking notes for this series during that time.

Product details

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B009FZPMFO
Publisher ‏ : ‎ SkipJack Publishing (November 23, 2013)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ November 23, 2013
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 1247 KB
Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 440 pages

Best Sellers Rank: #2,129 Free in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #11 in Women's Crime Fiction
- #40 in Amateur Sleuth Mysteries (Kindle Store)
- #180 in Women Sleuths (Kindle Store)

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USA Today bestselling and Silver Falchion Best Mystery winning mystery/thriller/suspense author (and recovering attorney and investigator) who splits time between an off-the-grid lodge on the face of Wyoming's Bighorn Mountains and a rustic cabin on Maine’s Lake Mooselookmeguntic with her husband, kids and grandkids, rescue pets and sled dog, and draft cross horses.

Writes for Bookouture and independently.

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Corliss Hudson

Great entertainment

Reviewed in the United States on April 17, 2024

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I love Saving Grace! I don't want to give anything away so I will just say as Katie tries to negotiate a career that is a very slippery slope and one she's not that fond of she soon goes up in flames in the court room. Though not her fault she is now a pariah in the legal world.
So she does what any rational woman would do, she completely changes her life and leaves the United States behind. Then the good part begins. It's a great tale, that even includes a "jumble". I recommend reading Saving Grace to find out for yourself what a jumbie is.

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Aside from her drinking

Reviewed in the United States on April 19, 2024

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This book definitely grabbed my attention. Some good things and some not so good things. Katie worried me, but I was happy to see her take charge and uproot herself when hitting rock bottom. Tanking the case that pushed her over the edge because she could not admit her drinking was way out of control was the last straw. Deciding to move to St. Marco seems crazy but necessary. Now if only she could control that drinking so her life could stop spiraling. And Nick. Definitely need to shelve that one and give her new life a shot. Things get a little hairy when a murder lands her new friend in hot water.

The mystery of her parents death, the mystery around the likeable ghost, and the mystery of Ava's boyfriend's murder make for a lot to work through. Love the environment but hate the corruption. Good story.

Reviewed in the United States on March 31, 2024

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An excellent book. Katie Connell, at first was a character I loved to hate. She was a hot mess. As the story progressed, she became more likeable. There were many twists and lots of action and trying to navigate it all.

Reviewed in the United States on January 27, 2015

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Loved the first few chapters of this book - even called my sister to recommend it, as we do when either of us discovers a really good book. But my enthusiasm quickly soured when the story became unbelievable.

Why would a seemingly intelligent lawyer impulsively buy a run down mansion while on vacation on a Caribbean island just because it 'spoke' to her? Why would this same lawyer have a mental breakdown after losing a criminal case ( and having this breakdown splattered all over YouTube)? Why would this woman be obsessed with an imaginary love of a coworker who paid no attention to her? And these are just a few of the unrealistic events that happen quickly into the book.

Another shortcoming of this book was, as my high school literature teacher would say, 'poor character development'. People came into Katie's life in rapid succession. The reader could barely keep up with the names before more were introduced. I found myself in a mental state of confusion as I tried to figure and refigure who these characters were and how they were connected to the story. Only Katie's two good friends, Emily and Ava, had written substance.

On a positive note, the author did have a memory for details. Pieces of information that seemed to be tucked away in one chapter resurfaced in another. I also liked that the author brought current styles, technology and events into a story that was taking place in the present.

It's my understanding that this book is the first of more to come. But it will be the last for me.
Elaine B. Auburn, MA

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New Beginnings

Reviewed in the United States on April 30, 2024

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Katie was in deep trouble, drinking to much and in love with a married man. Her parents were dead and her brother who had done a intervention on her knew she was drinking to much. She would go to where her parents had died and try to fix her life. Only a spirit would save her.

Reviewed in the United States on March 7, 2015

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Saving Grace is by Pamela Fagan Hutchins. It is a quick romance to read and has a different plot than other romances. There is a sequel to this book.
Katie Connell was a good lawyer and did a great job for her office. However, lately she had been a little distracted. She lost her parents in a car accident in St. Marcos while they were on their Caribbean vacation. Katie has had a hard time accepting their deaths. She has also been drinking too much which was causing concern from her brother Collin. After all, their father was a recovering alcoholic. However, she just finished up a great case for her law office and was being congratulated for it. She willing gave her assistant and friend Emily and her co-worker Nick their credit. Nick was one of the investigators the company used. Katie had a crush on him and thought he had one on her. OF course, it would not be a good idea to have an office romance but it was good to have one you could dream about.
Collin finally speaks with Katie along with Emily about her alcohol problem and her drive to be number one. He though she needed to go somewhere and dry out. She compromised and said she would look into her parents deaths and come to come kind of closure. She sets out for St. Marcos. There she meets Ava, a native singer, who helps her in her quest and also gives her a room to sleep in. The first thing Katie does is antagonize one of the chief detectives and one of the only people who could help her. Now she had to worry about his interfering in her plans. While a private investigator is looking into the death of her father, Katie does the tourist thing and goes for a hike into the rainforest. Here they reached an abandoned house and she falls in love with it and makes an offer for it. The offer is not accepted so she keeps looking.
When she goes home, she gets a case she definitely did not want. She was to act as lawyer to a man being charged with rape? She does not like the man at all and although she tries, his guilt weighs on her. During the trial, she gets drunk which is totally unlike her and when she calls a witness, the court looses it. The witness said she had seen the subject killing this lady. Katie gets help from Ava, a singer she meets in a bar. While she is waiting word about her offer, she goes to the house and works on it a little. Then she gets her rotten case. She ends up removing herself in person when the court will not allow her to leave temporarily. She learns the offer on Annalise (the house) did not go through and she was being offered the deal again. Now Katie becomes obsessive over the tree, her relationship to the others, and her relationship with her mother.
What will happen to Katie and Collin, Ava, and now the little girl who he believes is the ancestor she has been looking for?

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Emil Toth

Very readable

Reviewed in the United States on April 7, 2024

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I found the book an easy and enjoyable read. The author spiced the book up with humor that appealed to me. It is an enjoyable read.

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Debbie Hummel

great book! keeps you engaged.

Reviewed in the United States on April 5, 2024

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Enjoyed the book a lot. Kept me up past my bedtime several nights! 🤣 suspenseful and fun with a little romance thrown in for fun.

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Lady Hougun

Recommend

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 26, 2024

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Bit of a slow starter but, once it did pick up, it was a great read. I mean it was obvious who the killer was yet the adventure leading up to the realisation was enjoyable. Definitely worth a read

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Bon livre

Reviewed in France on December 29, 2019

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Minikraut

A little hard to get into, but worth it!

Reviewed in Germany on February 11, 2019

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I found this one a little hard to get into. I couldn't see any mystery unfolding and found the main character to be getting on my nerves. But that changed - a lot! I found Katie increasingly interesting as she struggled both with her deamons and the world around her, the mystery picked up speed and then, of course, there's Analise ...
Some aspects of the Story are not very realistic, but funnily, that didn't bother me much.
I enjoyed myself so much that I bought the second one in the series days before I finished #1.

Nancy Yeats

A good read. Main character was a little ditzy for ...

Reviewed in Canada on January 29, 2015

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A good read. Main character was a little ditzy for me but her struggle with alcohol was very real. Other characters were very realistic and the plot moved along at a good pace. A very pleasant read.