Fatal Accusation (Fatal #15) by Marie Force-Review & Tour

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date December 17, 2019

A deadly serious affair…

The story breaks as Metro PD lieutenant Sam Holland attends a dinner party with her husband, Vice President Nick Cappuano: President Nelson is accused of having an affair. More shocking still, campaign staffer Tara Weber claims the president fathered her newborn son—while the First Lady was undergoing secret cancer treatment.

When a high-profile murder case hits Sam’s desk, she’s shocked to uncover a connection to the presidential scandal. With the department caught up in its own internal scandals, and the chief’s job hanging by a thread, Sam questions who she can trust as her team uncovers information that clouds an already-murky case. And with calls for the president to resign getting louder by the minute, Sam needs to close this case before she finds herself living at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue

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REVIEW: FATAL ACCUSATION is the fifteenth instalment in Marie Force’s contemporary, adult FATAL romantic suspense series focusing on Lieutenant Samantha ‘Sam’ Holland, and her husband US Vice President Nick Cappuano. FATAL ACCUSATION can be read as a stand alone without any difficulty. Any important information from the previous instalments is revealed where necessary but I recommend reading the series in order for back story and cohesion as some of the events are as of a direct result of events in earlier story lines.

Told from dual third person perspectives (Sam and Nick) FATAL ACCUSATION follows Washington DC, Metro PD lieutenant Sam Holland as she is tasked with investigating the murder of a woman connected to the most recent scandal linked to US President Nelson. President Nelson is no stranger to scandal but the fall-out of accusations by a campaign staffer could end his career in politics, as well as his marriage to his beloved wife. Sam Holland struggles with the knowledge that if President Nelson steps down, she and her husband will assume the role as President and First Lady, a position to which neither one is looking forward. As Sam begins to dig deeper into the murder investigation all clues point to the powerful elite, with more than one possible suspect on the horizon.

Meanwhile Sam’s private and personal h*ll wants a face to face but Sam struggles with what was, and what will never be. Betrayal hits hard, and our heroine battles not to crawl into the abyss when the truth about the who and why is slowly revealed.

Marie Force pulls together a colorful and energetic cast of secondary and supporting characters including Sam’s feisty partner Detective Freddie Cruz whose one on one banter is straightforward, animated and real , as well as a host of other co-workers and law enforcement who help make Sam’s life a little easier.

FATAL ACCUSATION, in some aspects, mirrors a little bit of the current US administration in that the honesty and transparency is missing and lost. Marie Force pens a startling, thought provoking and sexy story of betrayal and vengeance, heart break and love. The premise is dramatic and engaging; the characters are dynamic, charismatic, raw and inspiring.

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Reviewed by Sandy

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Marie Force is the New York Times bestselling author of contemporary romance, romantic suspense, historical romance and erotic romance. Her series include the indie-published Gansett Island, Treading Water, Butler, Vermont and Quantum Series as well as the Fatal Series from Harlequin Books.

Her books have sold more than 9 million copies worldwide, have been translated into more than a dozen languages and have appeared on the New York Times bestseller list 30 times. She is also a USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestseller, a Speigel bestseller in Germany, a frequent speaker and publishing workshop presenter.

Her goals in life are simple—to finish raising two happy, healthy, productive young adults, to keep writing books for as long as she possibly can and to never be on a flight that makes the news.