Since my new release
won’t grace the internet until next year, I thought I’d do a little backlist
surfing.
Let’s start with my two novels set in Alexandria, Virginia: Artful Dodging: the Torpedo Factory
Murders and the Mason’s Mark: Love
& Death in the Tower.
Artful Dodging: the Torpedo Factory
Murders
Blurb:
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.
Artful Dodging: the Torpedo Factory Murders
Wild
Rose Press, 7/20/2016
Mystery/Cozy
Mystery; Contemporary romantic Suspense
Ebook, 66,830 words; Print 268 p
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Now for The
Mason’s Mark: Love and Death in the Tower
Fun Fact: The Mason's Mark arose in part out of a true story. Starting in the 1940s an Italian named Licio Gelli embarked on a lifetime of bizarre scams and crimes. Alternately linked to rightists and leftists, he bilked or used people from Italian politicians, to the Nazis, the Communists, the CIA, even to Juan Peron, dictator of Argentina. His exploits across the globe spanned four decades. At last check, he was still alive, in his nineties and writing poetry from prison. In 1996 he was even nominated for the Nobel prize in literature.
Blurb
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.
The Mason's Mark: Love and Death in the Tower
Wild
Rose Press, 5/6/2016; Imprint: Crimson Rose
Mystery/Cozy Mystery; Romantic suspense
79300 words; 322 pp.
