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Murder at St. Hilaire
SKU: 978-1-956978-00-1
Newly retired Boston Police officer Lucy O'Donnell invites Meilan Lin to join her on a vacation to the Caribbean Island of St. Hilaire. When a young man is found dead in the hot tub, Lucy has to use her skills as a homicide detective to keep Meilan from arrest.
Was it a mistake to invite Meilan? Lucy has to question the wisdom of what she thought was a good deed when her new friend is implicated in the murder of the Chinese businessman. Is the crime rooted in the Chinese Cultural Revolution in the past, or in the future of the island of St. Hilaire?
Death at the Chicago Trust
SKU: 978-1-956978-21-6
In February 1930, Emily Cabot is a widow who finds her funds have been lost in the Wall Street Crash. After she witnesses the suicide of a banker, she’s nearly killed in a gangland style shootout. Her police mentor has retired, her friend at City Hall is demoted. She can’t believe the way Chicago has dissolved into chaos. Her own family is threatened by the clash of the Secret Six vigilantes and the Outfit gangsters. In the penultimate book of the series, Emily meets Eliot Ness and Frank Nitti when she fights to protect the innocent and ensure some justice in a lawless city.
By the Sea
SKU: 978-1-956978-23-0
When tragedy strikes through a horrible accident, JaQuan Miller finds himself on the run in the backstreets of Boston. Torn between loyalty to the small band of youngsters he leads and the need to protect himself, JaQuan longs for the time when his grandmother provided security.
Hunted by the police, he seeks help from other young people while adults in the police, a reformed gang member, and women from the SAFE, a refuge for troubled youngsters, try to find or help him. While life goes on in the prosperous layers of Boston’s society, one young man desperately strives to find a way to live.
Death in a Time of Spanish Flu
SKU: 978-1-956978-18-6
In October 1918, the Allies are winning the war in Europe, but the Spanish flu is rampant at home. In Chicago, Emily’s husband is fighting the virus at Cook County Hospital. Their daughter has dropped her social ambitions to study sculpture while their doctor son has returned from France injured in body and spirit. Emily is shocked to learn her children were friends of the victim in a scandalous murder. The wife of a notorious gambling king shot her young lover. When Emily follows them to the Dil Pickle club she enters an avant-garde world of artists and writers biding their time for their lives to return to normal. When a man is found shot there, Emily works with Detective Whitbread prove her children are not involved in the death.
Death on the Homefront
SKU: 978-1-956978-16-2
Death on the Homefront received a starred review in Publishers Weekly!