Urcelia Teixeira
Logan's Way - Angus Reid Mysteries Book 7
Logan's Way - Angus Reid Mysteries Book 7
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He thought finding the truth would bring peace. He was wrong. Dead wrong.
For eighteen years, Sheriff Angus Reid has carried the weight of one unsolved case—the disappearance of his brother Logan. No body. No closure. Just questions that haunt every quiet moment.
Then new evidence surfaces that changes everything.
A riveting coastal thriller blending mystery, faith, and the thirst for truth.
🔹 Fog-shrouded secrets in small-town Maine
🔹 Christian themes of moral conflict
🔹 Emotional suspense with spiritual depth
INCLUDES A BOOK CLUB DISCUSSION GUIDE AND THEMED 30-DAY BIBLE PLAN
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Synopsis
Synopsis
He thought finding the truth would bring peace.
He was wrong. Dead wrong.
For eighteen years, Sheriff Angus Reid has carried the weight of one unsolved case—the disappearance of his brother Logan. No body. No closure. Just questions that haunt every quiet moment.
Then new evidence surfaces that changes everything.
What begins as a procedural investigation becomes a dangerous descent into family secrets, small-town corruption, and a system built to quietly erase inconvenient lives.
The deeper Angus searches, the higher the cost.
Because some truths don't set you free. Some discoveries force impossible choices. And some brothers are lost in ways that finding them can never fix.
This isn’t just another investigation.
This is the one that will shake his foundation.
Logan’s Way is the long-awaited turning point of the Angus Reid Mysteries — a gripping Christian mystery thriller filled with cold-case investigation, buried secrets, and faith-threaded suspense for readers who love small-town crime fiction with moral depth.
Perfect for readers who love:
- Cold cases that become personal
- Faith-tested protagonists
- Small-town secrets with high stakes
- Clean suspense without graphic content
- Impossible moral choices
- Family mysteries with eternal consequences
- Stories that challenge what doing good really means
Inspired by:
Proverbs 14:12: There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death.
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Logan’s Way is book 7 in the Angus Reid Mysteries series.
*Not recommended as a standalone. Best enjoyed as part of the series.
Chapter One Look Inside
Chapter One Look Inside
Prologue
The man who believed himself untouchable sat in his car outside the apartment complex for the third night in a row. Engine off. Lights dark. Patient.
He had learned patience over the years. Had learned that persistence looked like devotion if you framed it correctly. That boundaries were suggestions enforced only when someone cared enough to enforce them. That most people would rather avoid conflict than confront it.
She would understand eventually. Would see that what felt like pressure was actually commitment. That following her to a new city just meant he cared too much to let go.
The restraining order was paper. Distance was temporary. Fear would fade once she remembered how good they'd been together before she'd gotten confused about what love looked like.
He checked his phone. Almost midnight. Her light was still on.
Good. She was awake. Would see him if he stood in the right place. Would know he was thinking about her.
He reached for the door handle.
Then stopped.
Someone was standing beside the car. Hadn't walked up. Hadn't made a sound. Just... there. In the shadow where streetlight didn't quite reach.
The man's heart kicked once, hard, before training steadied it. Probably a neighbor. Maybe building security. Nothing that couldn't be explained with the right tone, the right story about waiting for a friend who was late coming home.
He rolled the window down.
"Can I help you?"
The figure didn't move. Didn't speak. Just stood there in stillness that felt wrong—not threatening exactly, but present in a way that made the man's carefully constructed confidence feel suddenly thin.
"I'm just waiting for someone," the man said, voice carrying the precise blend of casual and annoyed that usually made people back off.
The figure stepped closer. Not aggressive. Not theatrical. Just one step that brought him barely into the edge of light.
The man couldn't see his face clearly. But he could see that the stranger was looking at something—a phone maybe, or a small notebook. Reading something while standing there in the cold like he had all night to stand and all night to wait.
"You should leave," the stranger said quietly. Not a threat. Just information.
The man felt anger spike beneath his ribs. "I don't take orders from—"
"She has a sister in Portland. You found that address in two hours." The stranger's voice was still quiet. Still factual. "You have a storage unit. Number 247. You've been keeping things that don't belong to you. Photographs. Clothing. Items you took from places you shouldn't have been."
The man's chest tightened.
"You have a job you care about protecting," the stranger continued. "A supervisor who doesn't know you've been falsifying timecards. A landlord who doesn't know about the lease violations. A parole officer who thinks you've been attending meetings you stopped going to six months ago."
Each sentence landed like weight.
"I don't know who you think—"
"I know exactly who you are." The stranger's tone hadn't changed. Still quiet. Still carrying no heat. "And I know what you'll lose if you stay."
The man's hands were shaking now. Not fear exactly. Something colder.
"You can't—"
"I already did." The stranger stepped back into shadow. "You have a choice. Keep coming here and lose everything. Or leave and keep what you have. The choice is yours. But it's the only choice you get."
The man sat frozen, mind spinning through scenarios, through responses, through the sudden recognition that someone had been watching him as carefully as he'd been watching her. That his confidence had been built on invisibility that no longer existed.
The stranger was gone. Hadn't walked away. Just... gone. Back into darkness that made it impossible to know if he was still standing there or had left entirely.
The man started his engine.
He drove away from the apartment complex without looking back. Drove until he was three blocks away, then five, then ten. Pulled over in a grocery store parking lot and sat there shaking, mind running through every violation the stranger had listed, every piece of information that shouldn't have been known.
He could go back. Could call the police. Could claim harassment.
Except he couldn't. Because everything the stranger had said was true. And involving law enforcement meant answering questions he couldn't afford to answer.
The man drove home instead. And the next morning, he didn't return to the apartment complex. Didn't drive past her workplace. Didn't check the sister's address in Portland.
He left. Because staying cost more than leaving. Because someone had made the math clear in a way that left no room for the calculations he'd been comfortable making.
Behind him, a woman slept safely in an apartment she'd moved to for protection the system couldn't guarantee.
Somewhere in darkness, someone who believed outcomes justified methods moved on to the next gap the law couldn't fill.
The intervention worked.
That was all that mattered.
Or so the intervener believed.
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Sheriff Reid is on leave after his mother’s death, trying to settle the estate and all of the things that entails. He is trying to over come the grief of losing his mom.
While on leave he is still on call to give advice on how to handle things. With all of his time off he thinks again of his brother and decides to continue to investigate his brother’s disappearance.
He uncovers some new information about the case but it just does not add up like is should.
As he chases his leads he keeps getting stonewalled at most every step of the way.
As he continues he gets told by those over his job as Sheriff, to stand down and stop using law enforcement tools and privileges.
Then one of the women in town asks him for help with her ex-boyfriend’s stalking and him violating the restraining order, as she is terrified. How can he not help even when he is not suppose to be doing any official duties.
Sheriff Reid keeps pushing and they keep warning him to stop, but he feels he can't just do nothing so he keeps trying to do workarounds that aren’t working. He keeps pushing until the place him on admin leave pending an investigation in his conduct.
I don’t want to say more and tell too much.
There are so many layers with twists and turns as this story unfolds, that it keeps you in suspense all along the way, trying to figure out what is going to happen.
You should read this story as it will challenge your mind and provide you with a great story.
I think you will really enjoy this book, I know I did!!
There is a way that seems right to a man …..
18 years is a long time to search for someone, but that is how long Sheriff Angus Reid has been trying to find out what happened to his brother Logan. Mother passed away without any closure and during bereavement leave, Angus decides to spend his time finding answers. It appeared that Logan’s death was manufactured - what had he been involved in that required official erasure? The questions were multiplying faster than the answers.
This mystery delves deep into the Proverb - There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way to death. A huge dilemma faced Angus as his efforts were stymied in many ways. He began to realize that finding Logan might destroy what he built. Truth might cost lives he’s saved. Was that a price worth paying? Was this Logan’s path to redemption - but what about God’s grace?
An early copy was received through Purpose Bound Press and BookFunnel. These reflections are my own and were in no way solicited.
Sheriff Angus Reid's brother died eighteen years ago, or did he? A recent falsified document has come to Angus's attention making him wonder if Logan might still be alive. As Angus desperately searches for the truth, he faces many obstacles--a complicated maze of paperwork, red tape, threats, and people deliberately trying to impede his search. There is plenty of action in the book, although the main struggle is inside of the sheriff's head. He must wrestle with doubt, obedience to the law, faith, mercy, grace, and what righteousness really means. A quote about Angus: "He needed truth the way other men needed air."
An adorable collie named Scout provides Angus with his only comfort because he is pushing away his friends and reluctant to pray to God about it. The search for Logan might cost Angus dearly as he faces sacrifice.
This is the book that I never knew I needed....
I have been waiting for this one for sooooo long, and it did NOT disappoint.
I have been following Angus's stories since the beginning and have become very invested in the series.
Angus and his need to find out what happened to his younger brother Logan 18 years ago.
Was it an accident, murder or something much more sinister.....
The more Angus digs into the past, the more things begin to unravel and roadblocks appear to ambush Angus at every turn...
Will keep you hooked until the very last pages and thinking about it long after the book has been closed.
A great read that keeps you wanting more and wondering where Angus will go next and what road he will take.
The first chapter of Logan’s Way was full of suspense and captured my attention. I began reading the book in the morning and completed my reading by dinner time (with a few breaks). My curiosity was piqued, and I had to know what will happen.
Logan’s Way is book 7 of Urcelia Teixeira’s book series about Angus Reid, the sheriff in Weyport, a small coastal town in New England. (I suggest you read Urcelia’s prequel, Lost Boy Lost, which lays the foundation for Angus and the town he is now protecting.) Even though Logan’s Way is book 7 in a series, you can enjoy this book without reading the earlier books in the series as they are all stand-alone books.
Urcelia uses vivid descriptions which made me see the landscapes and Scout (Angus’s dog) as well as feel the emotions Angus wrestles with.
Finally, as a fan of this series, the unsolved mystery of Angus’ missing brother, Logan, is addressed. I’ve been wondering as I read the series if Logan was dead (as the death certificate stated) or alive. This same question has plagued Angus.
In this book Angus is on leave as he’s grieving the death of his mother. During this time he becomes interested in a cold case in Nevada. The victim, who once lived in terror of her abuser, was now living in peace because someone “took care of matters”; and she would not say who her savior was. As Angus digs further into this case he finds the cracks in the legal system. The restraining order could not and did not protect the victim. (“The restraining orders are as flimsy as the paper they are printed on.”)
Angus then begins to investigate Logan’s death. Roadblocks and more roadblocks. Some power within the legal system keeps him out of the information he needs to proceed with his investigation.
A woman in his community is living in fear because of her ex-boyfriend’s stalking, which is escalating. She comes to Angus for help. Angus struggles with how the legal system has failed this woman. A quote from the book, “law that failed people first or intervention that violated the law to prevent the failure’s consequences.” The legal system moves too slowly. Predators’ tactics escalate and often the victims lose their lives. Angus struggles with being accountable to the law or doing his own thing to protect the woman.
I’ll not spoil the book for you in all that Angus struggles with and eventually discovers about himself and the truth about Logan. You will have to read this great book to get the answers.
I appreciate the cleanness of Urcelia’s books. No swearing. No sex. No graphic violence. I love that God is always part of every book. This book speaks the truth of Jesus and His grace. Her books are inspirational and have great redemptive endings. Urcelia writes a novel everyone can enjoy – from teen to grandparent.