Get swept away to fall in love with a rainforest jumbie house and a main character who is as much a danger to herself as the island bad guys.
Saving Grace is the first book in the Katie and Annalise series.
- Amazon.com bestseller in women’s fiction and in mysteries & thrillers
- “A lively romantic mystery that will likely leave readers eagerly awaiting a sequel.” Kirkus Reviews
- “…an exciting tale that combines twisting investigative and legal subplots with a character seeking redemption…an exhilarating mystery with a touch of voodoo.” Midwest Book Review MBR Bookwatch
- Winner of the 2010 Writers League of Texas Manuscript Contest (Romance*)
- Winner “Best Ghost Story” in 2012 from the Houston Writers Guild (adapted excerpt)
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About Saving Grace
Katie Connell is a high-strung attorney whose sloppy drinking habits and stunted love life collide hilariously in a doomed celebrity case in Dallas. When she flees Texas for the Caribbean, Katie escapes professional humiliation, a broken heart, and a wicked Bloody Mary habit, but she trades one set of problems for another when she begins to investigate the suspicious deaths of her parents on the island of St. Marcos. She’s bewitched by the voodoo spirit of an abandoned house in the rainforest and discovers that she’s as much a danger to herself as the island’s bad guys are. As the worst of her worlds collide, Katie drags herself back to the courthouse to defend her new friend Ava, an island local accused of stabbing the senator she’s been sleeping with.
Pamela Fagan Hutchins, a former attorney and native Texan, lived in the U.S. Virgin Islands for nearly ten years. She refuses to admit to taking notes for this novel during that time.
What people are saying about Saving Grace
“Katie is the first character I have absolutely fallen in love with since Stephanie Plum! I’m hoping for a series!” Stephanie Hayes Swindell, reader
“Katie is someone who could be you, your sister, or your best friend — someone you can really connect to.” Rene Riedlinger, reader
“Saving Grace is remarkable debut novel. It is everything a good read should be, with an exotic setting, vivid characterization (including jumbies), authentic-sounding dialogue, and real emotion, all balanced with page-turning doses of action and suspense. Fun, witty, exciting, and unputdownable!” Rhonda Doyle Erb, editor and reader
“This book was worth every moment I spent savouring it, and I can’t wait to read the next one.” Joana James, author of Finding Romeo and reviewer for Book Wormz
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Read an excerpt: Chapter One
Pamela Fagan Hutchins writes mysterious women’s fiction. She also writes non-fiction focusing on special needs parenting, blended families, relationships, indie publishing, and athletics. She is an employment attorney, human resources expert, and business owner living in Texas with her husband and hodgepodge of kids and animals.
* under the working title Leaving Annalise
[...] Discovering Katie Texas attorney Katie Kovacs escapes to the islands where she heals a broken heart and defends her new friend Ava, who is accused of stabbing her very married Senator-boyfriend right in his. [...]
Would love to read and write a review. Best of luck on your new project!
Awesome you’re in!
Looking forward to reading and commenting. Has been great following the evolution so far… amazing journey to date, with great promise for more. You are inspirational as an achiever of much in so little time.
Fantsatic, you’re in!
And thank you!
Loved it, loved it, loved it. So totally engrossing and the characters are beautiful. From the rough draft, everyone has taken on more depth and I LOVED IT. OK? OK!
Saving Grace is a spell-binding, fast paced mystery that will make you consider your life and the choices you live with. It is a well crafted, entertaining and lovely story that reads itself and will scarcely leave your hand once you start reading it. If courage can come from inspiration, this book will help you be brave enough to finally be yourself.
Awesome!
Great fun adventure read. See the island through the eyes of those in the know. Thoroughly descriptive of exotic places and things you have to have experienced to know they are true. A work of fiction that is steeped in fact. Tantalizing enough to draw one to visit some of the actual spots, if you know where to look… says I who lives on St Marcos… I think… A picture well painted…
Great to follow the rise of this author and her development of this story. It is been a treat and pleasure to see the characters come to life … Ava is a charmer… Highly recommended.
Thanks!
LOVED this book. My review is already up there so I won’t repeat myself, but I will be recommending this book to family and friends, or anyone else that will listen!
We love to hear that, Rhonda. Thanks!