Author: bvlawson
Revenge is best served … bold.When Beverly Laborde becomes a con artist to exact revenge on the man who shut down her grandmother’s antiques business and sent her to an early grave, she comes face to face with the handsome but haunted Vermont police detective, Adam Dutton—who doesn’t know whether to arrest her or ask her out on a date.What started as a personal vendetta for Beverly, against … personal vendetta for Beverly, against whose a man whose criminal tendrils reach far into Vermont politics and the Northeastern Antiquities League, soon grows into something more. The quirky town of Ironwood…
When a series of arsons target Vermont antiques stores, Detective Adam Dutton and con woman Beverly Laborde worry the shop owned by a friend of theirs, Harlan Wilford, might be next. But when a body is found inside one of the burned buildings, the stakes take an even deeper and darker turn.Adam and Beverly thought they’d seen the last of a crime syndicate operating under the Northern Antiquities … Antiquities League in the state and could finally put those dark memories behind them. But are the arsons the group’s last gasp or the sign of a new mob threat rising…
Vermont Detective Adam Dutton has to make one of the hardest arrests of his life-his good friend and godfather, Harlan Wilford, who stands accused of murder. Once again teaming up with con woman Beverly Laborde, Adam and Beverly must find the real killer before it’s too late for Harlan…and for them.
Can a piece of music be cursed? When a young marine biologist is found dead of suicide, his father can’t believe he took his own life and hires crime consultant Scott Drayco to prove it was murder. But what of the strange song found with the young man’s body—the same song linked to a piano sonata that led to a wave of suicides in Hungary in the 1930s? As Drayco digs deeper, he finds even more … 1930s? As Drayco digs deeper, he finds even more unusual aspects of the case not easily explained: the victim’s missing cellphone; his “Gang of Five” friends…
In this Shamus Award finalist, former FBI agent Scott Drayco inherits a dilapidated opera house that he hopes to sell. The only problem: A corpse with the letter “G” carved into its chest has just showed up within its walls… Can Scott solve the crime before he becomes the next fatality?