Carolina Slade Mystery Series
Lake Murray Money
Book Six in the series.
When wedding planning purgatory turns deadly…
Carolina Slade finds herself unable to agree with her fiancé Special Agent Wayne Largo on how and where to tie the knot. She’s finally willing to visit rustic wedding venues around Lake Murray, but marriage plans take a back seat when she stumbles on a body which might be the latest in a series of worrisome farmer deaths.
Worse, when she’s brought into the case, her boss—a longtime friend—isn't forthcoming with information or his reasons for having her investigate accidents and suicides. Suddenly Slade is running a case off book, forbidden to discuss any details with her fiancé, and wondering if Lake Murray money schemes are going to get her and those she loves killed.
Salkehatchie Secret
Book Five in the series.
A Carolina Slade and Callie Morgan crossover!
Carolina Slade’s long awaited engagement is put on hold as Senior Special Agent Wayne Largo leads the manhunt for his missing partner—a naïve fresh recruit, who may have jumped gun on an investigation from Slade’s case load. When the agent is found dead next door to the jurisdiction of friend and Edisto Beach Police Chief Callie Morgan, Slade calls in a favor to add support for Wayne’s investigation. Soon the two women are hip-deep in the secrets, black water swamp land, and farms of the Salkehatchie region.
Newberry Sin
Book Four in the series.
Beneath an idyllic veneer of Southern country charm, the town of Newberry hides secrets that may have led to murder.
When a local landowner’s body, with pants down, is found near Tarleton’s Tea Table Rock — a notorious rendezvous spot, federal investigator Carolina Slade senses a chance to get back into the field again. Just as she discovers what might be a nasty pattern of fraud and blackmail, her petty boss reassigns her fledgling case to her close friend and least qualified person in their office.
Forced to coach an investigation from the sidelines, Slade struggles with the twin demons of professional jealousy and unplanned pregnancy. Something is rotten in Newberry. Her personal life is spiraling out of control. She can’t protect her co-worker. And Wayne Largo complicates everything when the feds step in after it becomes clear that Slade is right. One wrong move, and Slade may lose everything. Yet it’s practically out of her hands . . . unless she finds a way to take this case back without getting killed.
Palmetto Poison
Book Three in the series.
A Governor keeping secrets. A drug lord bent on revenge. And a DEA agent out to make her case, no matter who gets hurt in the process. Once again, Carolina Slade finds herself caught in a web of lies and murder, only this time the case involves a Governor’s family secret, and a history of poisonous peanuts with the ability to kill.
Carolina Slade is one tough cookie. In the third book of her adventures, C. Hope Clark keeps you guessing and then leaves you wanting more with a tease at the end. Clark’s breezy conversational style goes down smooth as sweet tea as Slade winds her way through the mystery. Any story that starts at a peanut festival, weaves around a powerful Southern politician and ends up at a nudist colony is my kind of book! Clark’s words and settings conjure up cold beer, a bowl of shrimp & grits and a low country sunset…a perfect southern mix and a perfect southern mystery! ~Cliff Yeargin, The Jake Eliam ChickenBone Mysteries
Carolina Slade is the real deal - Southern charm, a steely determination, and a vulnerability she'll never admit to. Slade is at her absolute best in C. Hope Clark's Palmetto Poison so hold on for the ride! –Lynn Chandler-Willis, best selling author and winner of the Minotaur Books/PWA Best First Private Eye Novel Competition
Tidewater Murder
Book Two in the series.
Carolina Slade’s best girlfriend is a suspected embezzler in a case wrought with drugs, stolen tomatoes and slaves. When the farmer who knows the truth dies in a shrimp boat explosion, Slade copes to save her friend’s career, her life, and the lives of those around her when farming turns vicious . . . meaning people die and disappear in deep, South Carolina water.
Terrific. Smart, knowing, clever…and completely original. A taut, high-tension page-turner—in a unique and fascinating setting. An absolute winner! –Hank Phillippi Ryan, Agatha, Anthony and Macavity winning author
Lowcountry Bribe
Book One in the series.
A bribery case gone wrong leads a woman into the deep, dank Carolina Lowcountry on a manhunt.
Carolina Slade, a by-the-book federal county manager in the coastal Lowcountry of South Carolina, reports an attempted bribe only to find herself a key player in a sting operation run by Resident Agent-In-Charge Wayne Largo from the Feds' IG Office in Atlanta. However, the IG isn't telling Slade everything about this case or the disappearance-presumed-murder of Slade's boss the year before. When the sting blows up, both cases are put on hold and Wayne is yanked back to Atlanta, leaving Slade to fear not only for her life and job, but for her childrens' safety. Suddenly, operating by the book is no longer an option.
With a story that moves so fast you are sure to get a case of literary whiplash, LOWCOUNTRY BRIBE is almost impossible to put down. Southernisms dot the landscape of the page like so much Spanish moss, as Carolina Slade carries us along for the ride through rough and righteous terrain. Written with grace and ferocity, Clark promises us more installments of the Carolina Slade Mystery series and I for one can hardly wait for a second helping of this unpredictably un-pretentious and hard-scrabble down-home gal. – Rachel Gladstone, Dish Magazine