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In 1972 on Mudas Summers's 17th birthday, her beloved mama Ella is found hanging from the rafters of their home. Most people in Peckinpaw, Kentucky, assume that Ella's no-good husband did the deed. Others think Ella grew tired of his abuse and did it herself. Muddy is determined to find out for sure either way, especially once she finds strange papers hidden among her mama's possessions

Inspector Maigret must untangle the web of lies left behind by a murdered man whose family didn't know him as well as they thought. When a man is found stabbed to death in an alley off Boulevard Saint-Martin, his identity card shows a workplace that had gone out of business three years earlier. As far as his wife knew, he still worked there, and she insists that the shoes and a tie he was wearing when he was killed 'couldn't be his'.

A secret lover. A haunted rectory. A trap that's been waiting since the Stone Age. Detective Inspector Jesper Ek is a man possessed. He has fallen head over heels for Julia, a woman as captivating as she is guarded. But Julia is a mystery with a past that won't stay buried. When her dark...

Set in New York in the early 1930s, this love story is my first attempt and I hope you like it. It does have adult language, but it is not intended to be lewd in any way. I had a good time doing the research for the period, birds and photographic processes of the time.

Some love stories don’t end. They wait. When Hazel Whitby purchases an old piano at a quiet Connecticut estate sale, she expects nothing more than a beautiful instrument for her apartment above the bookshop. Instead, she discovers dozens of hidden letters—written during the Vietnam War, bound with faded ribbon, and addressed to a man who never came home the same. As Hazel follows the trail left behind in the piano bench, she uncovers a decades-old love story shaped by war, silence, and the choices people make to survive.