Mysteries set in Old Town Alexandria are great Christmas
reads. Old Town is the picture-perfect place for celebrating the yule-tide. Artful Dodging: the Torpedo Factory
Murders (which will be featured at N. N. Light’s Book Heaven Holiday Gift
Guide) is set at Christmas. Here’s the story:
It’s just before Christmas, and
Milo Everhart has two needlepoint stockings, a cross-stitch purse, and three
canvases to finish for her clients. Waiting out the rain in a pub, she is captivated
by the handsome man next to her, but blocking the road to romance are two
mysterious corpses who turn up in the tower of her Torpedo Factory Art Center.
As if that weren’t enough, a second crisis erupts—a proposal to gut her
beloved Art Center.
Tristram Brodie, hard-driving
corporate lawyer and former Marine, is focused on his plan to convert the
Torpedo Factory into a box store. He is drawn to the beautiful woman sitting
next to him, but their mutual attraction will be frustrated by both the murders
and his intentions. As they edge closer to love, they must find a way to
overcome both their differences and the still-fresh memory of her late husband.
And The Mason’s
Mark: Love & Death in the Tower, freemason, George Washington buffs,
and murder mingle high above Alexandria’s cobblestone streets.
In both the best and worst first day at work ever, docent Claire Wilding
meets the man of her dreams, but her carefully rehearsed guided tour of the
George Washington National Masonic Memorial collapses when she discovers a body
and is drawn into a dark world of black ops and Italian renegade masons, of
secret cabals and hidden treasure. Also cloaked in mystery is handsome Gideon
Bliss, a George Washington expert who haunts the Memorial, his manner evasive.
What is his secret? Claire fears she'll fall in love with him only to learn
he's a thief or even a murderer. Juggling two eccentric mothers, an inquisitive
sister, and an increasingly smitten detective, Claire must find answers to a
complex web of intrigue, including who to trust and who to love.
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