One Little Lie by Colleen Coble

One Little Lie by Colleen Coble

(Pelican Harbor #1)

352 pages

"When Jane Hardy is appointed interim sheriff in Pelican Harbor, Alabama, after her father retires, there's no time for an adjustment period. He is arrested for theft and then implicated in a recent murder, and Jane quickly realizes she's facing someone out to destroy her father.

"They escaped from a cult fifteen years ago, and Jane has searched relentlessly for her mother--who refused to leave--ever since. Could someone from the horrible past have found them?

"Reid Bechtol is a well-know journalist who makes documentaries, and his sights are currently set on covering Jane's career. Jane has little interest in the attention, but the committee who appointed her loves the idea of the publicity.

"Jane finds herself depending on Reid's calm manner as he follows her around taping his documentary, and they begin working together to clear her father. But Reid has his own secrets from the past, and the gulf between them may be impossible to cross." --from the publisher

Some good ideas for a story in this book, but there are a lot of characters here, and I found it difficult to follow the main story line. I think Coble introduced so many because she plans to highlight them in subsequent books in the series, but maybe should have waited on some of them. I give it three out of five stars.