Emma Howe Mysteries
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Welcome to Marin County, California, where Emma Howe, a middle-aged, seasoned and prickly private investigator has trouble keeping employees. She's less than overjoyed when her newest hire is Billie August, a single mother, former drama and music major with no saleable skills. But Billie located the child her estranged husband had kidnapped and therefore hopes she has an aptitude for investigations. She's willing to be poorly paid and bullied around in order to learn a trade. Despite Emma's misgivings, Billie's hired and her first case involves a missing teenager, said by her parents to have joined a cult. But nothing is quite as it seems.
Read the First Chapter of Time and Trouble |
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A few months after she was hired, P.I. trainee Billie August is still trying to win the respect of her difficult employer, Emma Howe, but the prospect of success seem dim with an assignment to help the defense of a mentally troubled young man, accused of murdering his best friend. All the evidence points toward him, and he himself is too confused and handicapped to say whether or not he did indeed murder her.
Meanwhile, Emma's search for an adoptee's birth mother blind-sides her when every "fact" she's been given turns out to be a lie and she suspects she's discovered a long-ago crime. Their combined searches for the truth take them over much of the map of Marin County—from a llama-ranch to the county jail to a sea-mammal refuge to a bayside mansion.
Read the First Chapter of Whatever Doesn't Kill You |
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