Estate Mystery

Florence knows all about failure. After a dismal end to her 2000s girlband career, she’s moping around West London, single, broke and unfulfilled. The only things she’s proud of are her increasingly elaborate nail art choices – and her ten-year-old son, Dylan. But when Alfie Risby, Dylan's bitter class rival and the child heir to a frozen foods empire, mysteriously vanishes on a school trip, Dylan becomes a prime suspect. Florence has to get her act together, find the missing boy and clear her son’s name or risk losing him forever.

Step beneath the Spanish moss and enter the humid, secret-laden world of Hawthorn House, rebranded as Beaufort Botanical Retreat. Saffron returns after twelve years, drawn back by the impending death of her godmother, the formidable matriarch Delaphina Duval. But the house, with its aged stucco and grand columns, is not merely a place of fading life; it echoes with the "sting of her mother's last harrowing screams" and is thick with unspoken truths. Saffron finds Delaphina frail but still commanding, surrounded by those vying for position or protecting their own interests. There's Jolie ...

Daisy’s heart breaks when Greg Bregoli, head of Bregoli Publishing, passes away, four years after she became a member of the Bregoli family. Then, she learns that Greg has left everything - the business, the island, and the Bregoli Estate - to her. Competition leans in from all sides, but none so daunting as Byron Barnett, Daisy’s previous boss. Meanwhile, Daisy communes with a new spirit in the Bregoli Estate, convinced it’s Greg, but the spirit soon reveals harmful motives.

It all starts with a car crash that kills a friend of Laguna Beach real estate appraiser, Alex Wright. He is unwilling to accept that it was an accident. The action develops as Alex, along with his surfing buddy, Newport Beach Police Captain Zack Potrero, search for the compelling motivation and reasonable opportunity among a list of possible suspects.... Meanwhile, Alex's romance with 4-time World Champion surfer, Rachel Fix heats up; in this, the fifth story in the ALEX WRIGHT MYSTERY/ADVENTURE SERIES... an exciting and fun read!

Sasha Michaels is a psychic with an affinity for houses. And he’s homeless. Go figure. After months of sleeping rough, he stumbles upon an abandoned house, and the lonely place beckons him inside. He’s finally safe...until someone comes blundering in to his hideaway. House flipper Nick Cooper lost everything in the recession. Desperate to revive his business, he turns to a loan shark to fund his comeback project: flipping an abandoned house full of potential. But it turns out the house has an unexpected occupant.

The Craft meets Practical Magic in this hauntingly enchanting sequel to Witchwood Estate: Going Home. When Alexandria Santorini returns to Ferntree Falls, she expects secrets—but not the kind that stalk her in the night. Her new friend Andrew only seems to appear after dark, and the deeper she digs into the mysteries surrounding Witchwood Estate, the more danger she unearths. Whispers in the walls, dreams that feel too real, and a chilling betrayal by someone she once trusted. Someone who now wants her dead. As the lines blur between friend and foe, Alexandria must decide who to trust—...

Lily Tso is stuck in the routine of a Hotel Guest Services Officer but her world turns upside down when she discovers that her parents, whom she believed dead, are very much alive. The shock pales in comparison to the revelation that she must now undertake a perilous mission to save America from a catastrophic biological attack. Thrown into a whirlwind of danger and deceit, Lily teams up with an FBI Special Agent and a daring young tycoon. Together they must navigate a labyrinth of threats and adversaries determined to stop them at any cost.

For twenty years Alex Wright, the Laguna Beach surfing real estate appraiser, has believed that his parents died in a freak auto accident on their way home from a weekend in Palm Springs. Now he learns that they were killed, mob-style, with single bullets to their heads. Why would they deserve to die this way? Meanwhile, Alex’s wife, Rachel Fix, is not adjusting well to the settled life of wife and mother. She is drawn back to the excitement of celebrity and fame that she enjoyed during her ten years on the pro surfing tour. So begins the seventh story in the Alex Wright Mystery saga. ...

Retired attorney Paul Peterson is shocked when he learns from the Ottawa police that his ex-spouse has just died and that she had left her Will in the kitchen naming Paul as her Executor. His divorce from Colleen twenty-three years ago had been bitter and he hadn't been in contact with her in any way for more than fifteen years. Reluctantly Paul drives to Ottawa to sort out his ex-wife's estate. Some bitter ex-wives never forgive. Paul will soon discover that Colleen has landed him in a posthumous pile of danger. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Durward Garbage is the anonymous pen name of a retired ...

The letter the FBI Chief signed gives Alex federal authority to work the plan, and he won’t run afoul of state laws. He’ll be acting within the limits of the medical marijuana statutes. “It’ll be fun. It’ll give me something extra to do for the next few months, and help you kick-start the investigation, okay?” With that, the third in the Alex Wright Mysteries begins… Alex, a real estate appraiser in Laguna Beach, California, creates a pot farm to benefit his pal, Zack Potrero, police detective for the Newport Beach Police Department. The excitement and compelling action build ...

Husband and wife team Lindsy and Michael Foster are a pair of paranormal investigators traveling the country. Their latest case brings them to the small coastal town of Bluthe, Maine, where a young man's death at the legendary Bowlby Estate prompts a closer look at the legend of treasure the beautiful heiress hid somewhere on the grounds of the estate. It's here Lindsy and Mike discover that the price of Madeline Bowlby's fortune could be their lives.

Never set your foot in a hexed property—especially, when the land has a resident zombie ready to strike you! FREE on Kindle Unlimited! If Fio Valentine has learned one thing working for Quest Realty, it’s that dealing with haunted and hexed properties can be a real nightmare. When her friend Suze asks her to investigate an abandoned home in LA, she can’t refuse, so with Andy Russel from the Property Management Department and her spirit animal Champ, Fio takes on the case of a zombie-like ghost who may be what remains of the former owner’s estranged son. After an encounter with the ...

Desperate for cash and a new start on life, Willow takes a job as a live-in gardener at a secluded mansion in a small town. As Willow tries to make the best of the situation, she discovers the house is inhabited by ghosts, and they aren’t happy with the mansion’s new occupants.

Here comes a new witch... She’s mean, evil, and she's too familiar with Jack. What’s Fio to do with her? FREE on Kindle Unlimited! Haunted and Hexed takes on a new meaning for Fio Valentine when she finds herself competing with a witchy newcomer to solve a case. When FBI psychic Abby Scott breezes into the office claiming to be Jack’s former lover, Fio is understandably vexed, but there’s no time to play mind games with the arrogant agent. A ghostly girl appearing in a team photo has become a harbinger of disaster for members of the women’s basketball team at Jack and Abby’s ...

Eliza Bennett, textile scientist and amateur sleuth, is back for another thrilling adventure, this time in the picturesque vineyards of Italy! When Eliza travels to the renowned Calbretti's Vineyard for a fabric dye research project. She’s accompanied by her ever-faithful and paranormal orange tabby cat, Merlin. But their idyllic getaway turns sinister when a murder shatters the vineyard's tranquility. As secrets entwine with the vines, Eliza and Merlin must navigate a web of deceit and danger. Between uncovering hidden motives and evading perilous traps, the duo faces their most ...

Recently widowed, Sydney Nash finds renewed purpose working for her friend and neighbor, Blair Miller, as an assistant to Blair’s growing estate sales business. Diving into the new challenge, Sydney thrives as she catalogs the detritus left behind by the dearly departed — and gains an unusually intimate view of the lives they lived. Even her cat Jinx has a sixth sense for finding missing family heirlooms. But will her discovery of a handwritten will of a man who died under mysterious circumstances cost Sydney and Jinx their lives?

In the aftermath of a tumultuous year, Fiona Winslow finds solace in the decaying grandeur of Wurimbirra, the rambling family estate on the east coast of Australia she once called home. Intent on restoring it, she discovers the keys to more than just the dilapidated mansion—beneath the crumbling plaster and dust are secrets that have been buried for a generation. When a misshelved book, The Midnight Estate, catches her attention in her late uncle's library, Fiona is plunged into a tale that mirrors her own—a story of love, loss and betrayal.

Napoli, agosto 1931. Un caldo soffocante, infernale, avvolge la città e si spande nelle stanze buie dei palazzi. La festa di Santa Maria Regina, con il suo tradizionale falò, è appena passata, quando il corpo senza vita della bellissima duchessa Adriana Musso di Camparino viene trovato dalla governante. Anche questa volta saranno le ultime parole della vittima, misteriosamente percepite dal commissario Ricciardi, a guidare l'indagine.

A mystery novel set in Chadlands, England, during the late 1910s. Prepare to be swept away into the enigmatic world of "Tragedy at Chadlands," where the picturesque facade of an ancestral estate hides dark secrets and tragic histories. Sir Arthur Gainsborough, a kind-hearted baronet, struggles with the ghostly legacy of the Grey Room, a place riddled with unexplained deaths. As family and friends gather under one roof, the tension mounts when an ominous event propels them into a web of intrigue, ensuring that the past will not stay buried for long. As the novel unfolds, you'll meet Sir ...

Bari, 1992. Nel pieno di una sanguinosa guerra tra clan, arriva la notizia del rapimento di un bambino, il figlio di un boss. È un punto di non ritorno. La lunga confessione di un pentito non basterà a fare chiarezza. Per risolvere il caso toccherà a Pietro Fenoglio, maresciallo dei carabinieri sabaudo trapiantato in Puglia, addentrarsi in quella zona grigia dove è più difficile distinguere ciò che è giusto da ciò che è sbagliato.