The Buckner Thriller Trilogy

Book excerpt: Collateral Damage Redemption, revenge, and a battle of wits…but who’s playing who? Nurse Amber Buckner is struggling with the fallout from her husband’s response to her unexpected pregnancy. Her distracted state prevents her from recognizing something is wrong when approached late at night by a uniformed police officer. Kidnapped, she soon realizes her abduction is no random crime. She’s the pawn in a deranged madman’s scheme of revenge. In a contest of wits, Amber convinces her captor he is the father of the child she’s carrying. While the maniac seesaws between love and hate for her, she prays her husband, an LAPD cop, will discover she’s been kidnapped and rescue her. Amber doesn’t know that her husband isn’t looking for her—no one is—the madman has seen to that. Collateral Damage is the first book in Kathy Bennett’s Buckner Thriller Trilogy. Authentic Crime…Arresting Stories told by an award-winning retired LAPD officer. Damaged Goods A cold case. A cold marriage. A cold-blooded murder. While stepping up as mom and dad to his toddler son, LAPD Officer Roy Buckner struggles with a new assignment in the Robbery-Homicide Division Cold-Case Unit. He and his female detective partner investigate a decades-old cop killing and uncover an old trail of deadly secrets—while generating secrets of their own. Roy’s wife, Amber, is newly graduated from the LAPD academy, and her probationary training leaves her with little time to be concerned about her home life—which hangs by a thread. Her first noteworthy arrest uncovers a trail of clues leading to a mystery centered on a stripper and her brother. As personal implications and consequences mount, the shocking revelations may end everyone’s career—if not their lives. Damaged Goods is the second book in Kathy Bennett’s Buckner Thriller Trilogy. Authentic Crime…Arresting Stories told by an award-winning retired LAPD officer. Damage Control L.A.’s mean streets—filled with vulnerable children. Some are stolen. Amber and Roy Buckner want to end their marriage amicably while diminishing the consequences for their three-year-old son, Gage. But those plans get placed on hold, and their lives are upended when Gage goes missing. For the two LAPD officers, anger and fear replace the cordial relationship they’d crafted during their separation. Bitter resentment ignites as the investigation reveals they were both culpable in their son’s disappearance. Word on the street reveals a notorious pimp is selling young children to the highest bidder. Roy and Amber must delve into the depraved world of child trafficking and prostitution to have any chance of saving their son. Can they beat the clock before their son is gone forever? Damage Control is the third and final book in Kathy Bennett’s Buckner Thriller Trilogy. Authentic Crime…Arresting Stories told by an award-winning retired LAPD officer.