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She left the city for small-town academia, hoping for peace and quiet. What she found was jealousy, treachery, and murder. Can she solve the case before she becomes the next victim? COVID, a stressful job and the end of Gemma’s marriage signaled a need to change everything in her life. Finding a job in public information in a university affiliated lab near Raleigh run by a world-renowned researcher seemed like a dream come true. Lured by warmer weather, a pay raise, cheaper rent and a scenic commute, she wasn’t prepared for another cutthroat environment. Or the murder of a researcher ...

A glamorous masquerade promised mystery, mischief—and a generous prize for unmasking the guests. But no one expected the true shock to come when the host was dead before midnight. Thirty guests, each costumed as a legendary figure from history or fairy tale, had gathered to celebrate. But behind the festive masks and sparkling conversation were old grudges, whispered secrets, and more than a few reasons to dislike the guest of honor—a self-made real estate tycoon known for stepping on toes in his climb to the top. Was it his bitter assistant? A rival? A spurned lover—or perhaps his ...

Aggie is hired to be a private nurse to an ailing millionaire’s wife. But she's not the one who dies. The couple is ensconced in a mansion in the small town to evade their enemies in the city. The marriage is anything but happy and she grows attached to the wife while repelled by the husband and baffled by the numerous silent servants who don’t seem to do anything but scuttle away. As Christmas approaches, everyone’s peace is shattered by a death at the big house. It isn’t who anyone expected would die, and it certainly wasn’t from natural causes. There are plenty of suspects ...

Family, Fortune, and Fatal Secrets: Which Will Prevail? Gemma Farnese and her husband, Lt. Steve Thibault, are pulled into a web of tension and turmoil when Steve’s brother, Bobby, celebrates a major real estate victory—only for it to turn into a nightmare. A groundbreaking deal at Indian Corners screeches to a halt when mysterious human remains are unearthed, threatening Bobby’s commission and the entire development. With a massive construction loan hanging by a thread, pressure mounts, and tempers flare. But the stakes soar even higher when the body of the owner’s wayward uncle is...

Can a female amateur sleuth and the small-town detective peel back the lies before they find another body? Or is he part of the problem? Gemma and her police detective boyfriend are on the Carolina coast for a vacation and a bit of work. But she is soon pulled into the mystery of the death of a museum docent, disappearing artifacts and a sketchy museum director. Things take a turn for the worse when she begins to suspect that her boyfriend may abandon his career altogether as he reconnects with dodgy old friends. With money on his mind, will he ditch everything—including their ...

Tempers flare at the Garden Fair. But it’s not about the floral competition. Politics and a land dispute cultivate a murder. Can she weed through the lies before someone else dies? Massachusetts, 1932. Aggie Burnside volunteers for what she thinks is a routine community event but soon finds out she’s in the middle of a heated partisan rivalry. She’s trying to stay out of the conflict, but when a County Commissioner is killed and her father’s cane is the murder weapon, everything changes. Was it a disgruntled constituent, a zealous volunteer, a protective parent, a political ...

She turned down marriage to prove her independence. What she didn’t bargain for was a murder. 1933. Amanda Burnside’s new project is creating a children’s clinic in the colorful, ethnic, under-served North End. It’s busy, noisy, bustling, and she’s challenged by the differences from her upper-class upbringing. She soon questions her choices when she stumbles across the murder of a young man. Warned off from asking further questions only fuels her curiosity to solve the case. Detective Halloran is assigned to sift through the motives and evasions of too many suspects. But his ...

An isolated mansion, an eccentric host, squabbling siblings, and a snowstorm. What could possibly go wrong? Young nurse Aggie Burnside and her doctor boyfriend are asked for a holiday weekend in a remote mansion in Vermont to calm the nerves of the threatened owner. But their hostess, a wealthy widow and renowned romance writer, has other plans for her guests. With a series of games, she hopes to reveal who is out to kill her, but to everyone’s shock, someone else dies first. Revel in the atmosphere of a 1931 New England winter, the extravagant house, tales of a Scottish curse, sumptuous ...

When her boss resigns, she’s out of a job and at loose ends. But it is when her friend’s father is killed that she hones her skills as an amateur sleuth. Can Amanda track down the killer before someone else dies? No one knows why her friend’s father was in the family’s vacation home in Hyannis on Cape Cod in early December. The discovery that he changed his will and was poisoned confuses his family and baffles the local sheriff. An ongoing property feud with a neighbor, a disgraced young man wronged by the family, an art dealer who suspects something is fishy, and a resentful ...

Her sweetheart revealed he was once married. Now the other woman has turned up dead. Will her sleuthing show he did the deed? Massachusetts, 1932. Aggie Burnside just got blindsided. Discovering her boyfriend’s secret ex-wife has completely sent her whole world into a tailspin. Barely grasping the stunning betrayal, she’s aghast when the money-grubbing woman is pushed off the road to her death. With incriminating scratches on her beau’s car, rumors circulating the dead ex was blackmailing rich women, and odd behaviors surfacing around town, Aggie wonders if a recent job offer in New ...

Nobody is thrilled when a medium has moved into town. But her presence doesn’t compare to the chaos that ensues after the murder of a prominent man. Can a curious nurse with a nose for detection solve who did it? Nurse Aggie Burnside and her doctor fiancé are busy building the medical practice in Western Massachusetts when they are asked to serve on a committee creating a new college. Thinking this could enhance their network, they jump in and soon find themselves in the middle of three factions who want them to take a side. Before they can back away from the turmoil, one of the Board ...

Nurse Aggie Burnside is looking forward to a quiet vacation at a beach house in Morgan’s Cove, Maine. But neighbors quarrel, old feuds erupt and someone dies. Can this amateur sleuth sift through the strands of deception to solve the crime? Massachusetts 1932. Aggie takes a vacation with her fiancé, Doctor John Taylor, at a family beach house on the Maine coast. Tempers flare when a mutual agreement with the neighbors falls apart and one family decides to build rental cottages. Adding to the conflict, the tenants are objectionable, and their eviction begins a series of fatal events. A ...

The jazz singer Lulu has plenty of admirers. So, who would want to kill her? Too many suspects, too little time. Lulu Evans makes quite a splash at the Mountain Aire hotel in 1931 when she fills in for her cousin. Not only is her performance jazzy and sexy, it delights the band director who sees financial success in his future. She also attracts the attention of a vacationing business mogul eager to back her, a Broadway producer looking for a new star, a struggling playwright in search of a muse, and a gaggle of lovestruck teenage boys. Success breeds jealousy and rivalries and one morning ...