Eight years ago, a nasty fall forced Mattie Samuelson to live in an assisted living facility called Silver Pines. Shes always maintained that someone pushed her, though her daughter, Heather, chalks it up to a simple slip in the rain. One fateful day, Heather makes her mother promise to stay in the house and out of Oregons miserable weather. When Mattie breaks her promise and turns up dead in a suspicious accident, Heather cant forget her mothers ominous belief that someone tried to kill her. Her grief nearly overwhelms her, but she cant let Matties death go unresolved. She plunges into her own investigation. Instead of answers, however, she discovers more questionsand more dead bodies. Heather has always loved puzzles, but this one may be her toughest yet. A missing fortune and a discarded teddy bear are somehow entwined in Matties murder, but how? Heather must figure it out and bring order to an assisted living center where assisted dying has become the norm
Heather Samuelson has always loved puzzles, but her next one may be more challenging than the rest. Heather and her sisters have inherited a letter and a package full of cards from their recently deceased mother. The letter itself contains a rather creepy fairy tale, and the cards were all sent after their father died. What, exactly, was their mother trying to tell them? Heather also discovers a scrapbook with a collection of obituaries and details of a murder trial in her mothers things, further deepening the puzzle. Does it have something to do with one of their fathers former clients? After all, as a witness, he helped put away some pretty hardened criminals. As Heather dives deeper into the mystery, the danger becomes all too real. Events in Heathers neighborhooda burglarized home, a mysterious neighbor, and her sisters near-fatal run-in with a carare seemingly unrelated to solving the riddle of her parents past. But it soon becomes all too clear that nothing is as it seems.
Heather Samuelson is moving through the supermarket checkout line when she encounters her Aunt Myrtle, worrying that her friend, Anna, has not returned from a jaunt across the store for free coffee. Moments later, Heather sets out on a search for Anna that takes her straight into a pitch-black storeroomand a gruesome murder scene. With one man dead and her aunts friend on her way to the hospital, Heather is once again plunged into circumstances beyond her control, as she tries to discover who killed Michael Santiam and wonders whether the murderer plans to return to finish off her aunts friend. Determined to solve the puzzle before her upcoming wedding, Heather partners with the police department and her fianc detective, Jazz, to search for the identity of Anna, whose memory only goes back two years. Just when she is getting somewhere, Anna suddenly disappears from her hospital bed. Now Heather must determine if Anna is being held captive or if someone is protecting herand if or how the recent turn of events ties into a murder committed twenty years earlier. In this brain teaser mystery, an amateur sleuth immersed in a complex investigation to solve a murder must find the link between the past and present before a killer strikes again.
Sisters Heather and Sally Samuelson have just bought a new place of their own in lovely Lewisburg, Oregon. The real estate agent mentioned something about ghosts, but Heather and Sally are skeptical. They are soon barraged by friendly neighbors and curious guests dropping by for lunch. Their Aunt Myrtle even arrives with furniture for their new placefurniture handed down in their family for generations. Not everything is what it seems in Lewisburg, though. The girls soon discover exotic herbs, hidden treasures, and dead bodies. Theres a serial killer in their small town, but puzzle-solver Heather finds herself plunged into circumstances surrounding neighbors deaths, a missing fortune, and a jewel thiefs hidden treasure. Whats more, a puzzle left behind by the girls deceased mother may be the key to stopping a killer. Heather cant help but be distracted by strange happenings in her own home, though, and the kooky neighbors dont help either. Will she be able to solve the murderers game before someone else ends up dead, or will the killer get away with both murder and a family fortune?
When a paralegal accidentally encounters a chilling murder, she finds herself in the crosshairs of a terrorist organization searching for stolen plans. As Teddy Sanderson hurries through the city park, a pedestrian bumps against herand then falls dead at her feet. When its discovered the victim was murdered, the local papers share the details of Teddys life, making her vulnerable to attacks from crackpots around town and from her paroled ex-husband, who wants her dead. Due to the notoriety of the case, Teddy becomes entangled in the activities of a secret organization known as the Delphi Alliance and in the work of the FBI as they attempt to curtail Alliance plans. Meanwhile, everyone is struggling to meet deadlines. A crime reporter is attempting to gain a Pulitzer Prize by writing award-winning page-one stories, the Delphi Alliance has a specific date on which they plan to blow up a power plant, and Teddys ex-husband is ready to notify his hit man of the date he wants Teddy exterminated. When Teddy and the crime reporter are kidnapped, however, the FBI whirls into action, trying to decide who has themthe Alliance or Teddys ex-husbandbefore their time runs out.
Heather Samuelson has always loved puzzles, but her next one may be more challenging than the rest. Heather and her sisters have inherited a letter and a package full of cards from their recently deceased mother. The letter itself contains a rather creepy fairy tale, and the cards were all sent after their father died. What, exactly, was their mother trying to tell them? Heather also discovers a scrapbook with a collection of obituaries and details of a murder trial in her mothers things, further deepening the puzzle. Does it have something to do with one of their fathers former clients? After all, as a witness, he helped put away some pretty hardened criminals. As Heather dives deeper into the mystery, the danger becomes all too real. Events in Heathers neighborhooda burglarized home, a mysterious neighbor, and her sisters near-fatal run-in with a carare seemingly unrelated to solving the riddle of her parents past. But it soon becomes all too clear that nothing is as it seems.
Heather Samuelson is moving through the supermarket checkout line when she encounters her Aunt Myrtle, worrying that her friend, Anna, has not returned from a jaunt across the store for free coffee. Moments later, Heather sets out on a search for Anna that takes her straight into a pitch-black storeroomand a gruesome murder scene. With one man dead and her aunts friend on her way to the hospital, Heather is once again plunged into circumstances beyond her control, as she tries to discover who killed Michael Santiam and wonders whether the murderer plans to return to finish off her aunts friend. Determined to solve the puzzle before her upcoming wedding, Heather partners with the police department and her fianc detective, Jazz, to search for the identity of Anna, whose memory only goes back two years. Just when she is getting somewhere, Anna suddenly disappears from her hospital bed. Now Heather must determine if Anna is being held captive or if someone is protecting herand if or how the recent turn of events ties into a murder committed twenty years earlier. In this brain teaser mystery, an amateur sleuth immersed in a complex investigation to solve a murder must find the link between the past and present before a killer strikes again.
Eight years ago, a nasty fall forced Mattie Samuelson to live in an assisted living facility called Silver Pines. Shes always maintained that someone pushed her, though her daughter, Heather, chalks it up to a simple slip in the rain. One fateful day, Heather makes her mother promise to stay in the house and out of Oregons miserable weather. When Mattie breaks her promise and turns up dead in a suspicious accident, Heather cant forget her mothers ominous belief that someone tried to kill her. Her grief nearly overwhelms her, but she cant let Matties death go unresolved. She plunges into her own investigation. Instead of answers, however, she discovers more questionsand more dead bodies. Heather has always loved puzzles, but this one may be her toughest yet. A missing fortune and a discarded teddy bear are somehow entwined in Matties murder, but how? Heather must figure it out and bring order to an assisted living center where assisted dying has become the norm
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