Laura Wilkes has everything a woman could want when she snaps the picture of her five-year-old daughter on the carousel. Each time the carousel comes around Laura snaps another picture, seven in all. This is a day of unforgettable happiness; one of the few Laura has left.
In the months following the stock market crash, the family is beset by tragedy. A homicide that goes unpunished. It's the height of the depression and there are hoards of faceless, nameless men living in train yards and back alleys. The murderer is never caught but the family never gives up hope of finding him.
Now twenty-five years later, Laura's daughter has fallen in love with a policeman. Jack Mahoney is a rookie with little or no power, but he's the one, the only one, who can deliver the justice the family has long awaited.
In a heartwarming family saga that stretches across three generations, and brings back Wyattsville's favorite detective, readers will get to know Jack Mahoney as a young man about to fall in love.
Beyond the Carousel is family saga fiction at its best... Christine Nolfi, bestselling author of Sweet Lake.
Bette Lee Crosby is the USA Today bestselling author of twenty-five novels and recipient of over forty literary awards. Often hailed as a masterful storyteller, her novel Baby Girl was named Best Chick Lit of 2016 by Huffington Post and her 2019 release Emily, Gone won the International Book Award for Women’s Fiction. Crosby, a lover of small dogs and all things Southern, laughingly admits to being a night owl and a workaholic. She claims her guilty pleasure is late-night chats with fans and friends on Facebook. Her most recent release is Beyond Betrayal, a tale of loneliness, danger, and the friendship that gave a grieving widow a new purpose for her life.