Red Pines (Paperback or Softback)

“In this hilarious third installment, Jill Hand gives us the weirdest, funniest family saga yet.” –Wayne Turmel, author of Johnny Lycan: The Werewolf PI series

The discovery of the bodies of two "honky-tonk hitmen" on land belonging to a former relative brings the Trapnell siblings, self-centered Aimee, indolent Trainor, and brilliant Marsh, back to White Oaks, their opulent ancestral home. FBI Special Agent Carson Burns is tasked with protecting them, something she finds increasingly difficult, as sinister events keep occurring which barely avoid being fatal.

Adding to the confusion is a deposed dictator who has eluded his Secret Service watchdogs and is pretending to be Marsh's valet.

It becomes clear that someone intends to murder the Trapnells, but who? And why? A rapper called Baby Patty Cake insists the Illuminati are to blame, but that can't be true, can it?

Jill Hand is a member of International Thriller Writers. Her work has appeared in many anthologies. She is a former newspaper reporter and editor and a lifelong New Jerseyan. Her husband's family comes from Georgia. Stories he told about some of his ancestors were the inspiration for the Trapnell saga.Red Pines is the third of her novels about the trials and tribulations of the eccentric Trapnell siblings, who have more money than is good for them.Cobbs, home of the fictional Trapnells, is based on little towns in the Deep South, where tales of scandals from generations past are gleefully repeated over supper tables and where front porches are for sitting and fanning oneself, while complaining about the heat.