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Part I of HEART OF WISDOM is an historical family saga featuring the immigrant Demsky family during the years 1920 through 1946 as they face the challenges of surviving life, love and loss in Newark, New Jersey. ¿Part II is mainly Sora's story, youngest daughter of the family, and develops as a mystery in which her husband is accused of murder. Sora, with the help of a local lawyer, is determined to prove Eli innocent. Members of her family lend support.

On Christmas morning, a mysterious man in a Santa Claus suit visits a group of friends with a tempting treat. It turns out that the Big Five and a Half were groomed well for ultimate death!

San Francisco is abuzz when it learns that Julia Paget, the rich, reclusive mistress of Dune House, is conducting a search for her long-lost heir.

Ritual murders of beautiful young entertainers in Cuba are investigated by law student Eduardo Betancourt and journalist Tomás Fuentes. They team up to track a man with voodoo-haunted dreams.

April 1774 - Within the colonial capital of Virginia, Faith Clarke awakes in the middle of the night to discover a man savagely murdered in her tavern. Phineas Bullard was no stranger. Faith''s late husband had borrowed heavily from the man and left Faith to struggle to pay the debt.  With unrest growing in the American Colonies, the British are eager for a quick resolution at the end of a noose, regardless of guilt. Under suspicion for the crime, she must use every resource at her disposal to prove her innocence and protect those she loves. Her allies are Olivia and Titus, slaves left to her by her late husband''s family, individuals she must find a way to free, even as she finds they also have motives for murder. Faith seeks to uncover the dead man''s secrets even as they draw close to home. Determined to find the truth, she continues headlong into a web of secrets that hides Tories, Patriots, and killers, not stopping even though she fears no one will hear the cry of the innocent.

File clerk turned secret agent Fiona Figg is up to her fake eyebrows in missing maids, jewel thieves, double agents, and high treason in 1915 Paris.

Trouble comes in threes for Shane Cleary, a former police officer and now, a PI: Arson. A Missing Person. A cold case.

Oklahoma City, 1935. Lou Nayland is a former Minor League Baseball player who now earns a living as a private investigator who only works when his cash runs out. He prefers to spend his days at Holland Field watching the Indians play ball. When a woman brings Lou a case of blackmail and murder, Lou is forced from the ballpark into the explosive world of jazz in Deep Deuce.  

"The Finder of Lost Things" is the name Blanche Wainfleet''s three sisters bestowed on her when they were young, not only for her ability to locate missing handkerchiefs and runaway pets, but also because she was so good at finding solutions to all manner of puzzles. Now, in the winter of 1590-1, twenty-eight-year-old Blanche, a London merchant''s wife whose husband is traveling abroad, is faced with a much more serious mystery, one she is desperate to solve.   Late Elizabethan England is an era rife with treason and conflicting political and religious loyalties. Priest-catchers target Catholic households in the hope of being able to arrest and execute priests. The householders themselves have to pay ruinous fines if they do not attend Anglican services. And yet leaders of both faiths agree that a bewitched person can be cured by exorcism.   When Blanche''s youngest sister, Alison, fell in love with a Catholic gentleman, she converted to Catholicism and went to live at Otley Manor as Lady Otley''s companion. Arrested for illegally hearing mass, she died under mysterious circumstances while imprisoned in Colchester Castle. Some say she was bewitched to death.   To discover the truth about how Alison died, Blanche contrives to have herself confined with Lady Otley and other members of the Otley household in Colchester''s dungeon. She tells no one of her connection to Alison, but does pretend that she, like her sister, wishes to convert. Still without answers when a royal pardon sets all women prisoners free, Blanche accepts Lady Otley''s invitation to join her household and take instruction in the Catholic faith. She''s just begun to make progress when a second murder puts her in mortal danger from powerful figures on both sides of the religious divide. 

Rose Westmoreland boards a train alone in 1911, bound for the far edge of the country in search of her missing husband. She is caught up in the intrigue of the Revolution, the unfamiliar culture of the borderlands, and the deadly competition between international oil companies.

What’s the best way to purge an unfaithful husband? Become a spy for British Intelligence, of course.Desperate to get out of London, and determined to help the war effort and stop thinking about her philandering husband, Fiona Figg volunteers to go undercover.At Ravenswick Abbey a charming South African war correspondent has tongues wagging. His friends say he’s a crack huntsman. The War Office is convinced he’s a traitor. Fiona thinks he’s a pompous prig. What sort of name is Fredrick Fredricks anyway? Too bad Fiona doesn’t own a Wolseley pith helmet. At Ravenswick a murderer is on the prowl, and it’s not just the big-game hunter who's ready to pounce. 

November, 1942. Betty Ahern is doing her part for the war, working at Bell Aircraft while her older brother and fiancé are fighting overseas, but she really wants to be a private detective like her movie idol Sam Spade. When sabotage comes to the plant, and a suspected co-worker hires her to clear her name, Betty sees it as her big chance.As her questions take her into Buffalo’s German neighborhood, Kaisertown, Betty finds herself digging into a group that is trying to resurrect the German-American Bund, a pro-Nazi organization. Have they elevated their activities past pamphlets and party-crashing?When the investigation leads Betty and her two friends into a tangle of counterfeiting and murder, as well as the Bund, the trio must crack the case--before one or more of them ends up in the Buffalo River…wearing concrete overshoes.