In einem kleinen Ort in Indiana hat es der weibliche Hilfsheriff Marty Hopkins gleich mit mehreren seltsamen Ereignissen zu tun: einem grausamen Mord, dem mysteriösen Tod des Richters und der Entführung einer älteren Frau
In einem zum Verkauf stehenden New Yorker Haus wird ein junger Mann tot aufgefunden - ein nicht gerade verkaufsfördender Umstand. Die nicht identifizierte Leiche wird zum Spielball verschiedenster Interessen.
Steve Bradford has a good job, a loving wife and a precious daughter, but he dreams of life in Venezuela with another woman. Actor Nick O'Connor allows himself the luxury of a little hope, cast in a production with the famous Ramona Ricci. But there are new responsibilities too, as he and his wife, statistician Maggie Ryan, are adjusting to life with a baby daughter of their own. Then Ramona is shot, and Steve puts Maggie at the heart of a dangerous deception. This Mystery Company edition restores to print the fifth novel in the Maggie Ryan series.
To escape the broiling New York summer Maggie Ryan, her actor husband, Nick, and daughter, Sarah, head for historic Civil War country-- Mosby, Virginia. But Mosby's simmering Southern heat hides as many sinister secrets as there are citizens.For one Mosbyite, reporter Dale Colby, is about to publish a hot exposé about prominent-- and not-so-prominent-- townsfolk. He's in his air-conditioned den. The door is bolted, the windows locked. Nobody can get in-- or out. But there lies Dale, in a pool of blood, deader than the story he'd intended to write.The list of villagers with motives is as long as the Mosby phone book. But only outsider Maggie can figure out who did it-- once she realizes how it was done.