Author: swhubbard
Tug O’Malley is dead, and there’s not a wet eye in the house.When Trout Run’s foremost curmudgeon turns up murdered, there are more suspects than mourners. Even Tug O’Malley’s own family found him irritating and abrasive.But Police Chief Frank Bennett still has to investigate the crime, whether he liked the victim or not.Frank turns up plenty of reasons why someone left Tug to die in an ice … someone left Tug to die in an ice fishing shack–his provocative politics, his obsessive nosiness, his casual cruelty. But as Frank works through the clues and rules out one suspect after another,…
Any risk is worth taking when you have this much to lose.Estate sale organizer Audrey Nealon combines business with pleasure as she plans a sale at the exquisite beach home of the Gardner family. But the romantic getaway weekend with her husband is shattered when the body of a teenage boy washes up on the sand. The death soon proves to be more than an unpleasant distraction from Audrey’s work. … distraction from Audrey’s work. Sophia, the troubled young woman who lives next door to the Gardners, is wracked with guilt over the death of her friend. When Audrey rescues…
Police Chief Frank Bennett investigates crime in Trout Run, an idyllic town high in the Adirondack Mountains. Murder and mystery abound in this collection from an Agatha Award–nominated author!
Audrey Nealon is organizing an estate sale at a mansion previously home to a wealthy, reclusive widow who didn’t leave for decades. She soon stumbles across puzzling secrets — and a mystery that could threaten her life…
Is Ronnie Gatrell a local hero — or an unstable criminal? A baffling case turns into a deadly game of cat and mouse as police chief Frank Bennett scours the Adirondack Mountains for the escaped convict.
The affluent Eskew siblings hire Audrey to organize an estate sale on behalf of their mother, who lies on her deathbed. But as Audrey dives into a wealth of antiques and mementos, she uncovers a trail of disturbing family secrets…
After losing everything she holds dear, Audrey Nealon takes a job going through a cluttered home in hopes of finding a valuable historical artifact. Instead, she uncovers a series of explosive secrets that could destroy her…
“This clever mystery has it all” (USA Today): Audrey is shocked to find her mother’s ring in the home of an elderly woman — a ring that disappeared years ago, along with her mother. Now Audrey must uncover what happened to her family… but these secrets may come at a price.