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MAYDAY! When Christine Bennett is invited on a sightseeing trip to Arizona, she jumps at the chance for a little adventure. But the excursion reminds her of a former high school classmate, Heinz Gruner, who died twenty years earlier on Cinco de Ma...
When NYPD detective Jane Bauer and her team check in for their new assignment, they reopen a cold case that's a real killer. Ten years earlier, police responding to a spate of late-night 911 calls from Greenwich Village discovered a young African Ame...
DEARLY DEPARTED Christine Bennett answers her phone to hear a chilling whispered prediction: "A body will be found later today." Police trace the call to an apartment whose tenants have vanished, leaving behind only a phone . . . and a trace of bl...
Newly promoted to detective first-grade with the NYPD, Jane Bauer, is back to work after a nearly fatal run-in with a killer. But while she's happy to be back on the job, her new assignment -- another cold case -- seems to hold little promise of bein...
TODAY, I AM A DEAD MAN For suburban sleuth Christine Bennett, the chance to visit the Holy Land is a dream come true. Her best friend Melanie Gross will be in Jerusalem at the same time for the Bar Mitzvah of her very wealthy cousin. Although he's...
After twenty years of loyal service, Detective Jane Bauer is just two months and one case away from leaving the NYPD for a cushy desk job. Her last assignment: working for a special unit that tackles unsolved crimes. At a crossroads in her personal l...
IT'S PARTY TIME FOR A KILLER Suburban sleuth Christine Bennett is moved and intrigued by two poignant mementos treasured by her late Aunt May. The first is a sad little note mourning the death of a young man lost in a Connecticut wood; the other, ...
A SECOND CHANCE TO DIE For his favorite charity, the high school drama club, Willard Platt fakes his own murder as an April fool stunt. But the repeat performance later that day is the real thing. And some, including the next-door neighbor, say he...
TRUE CONFESSION -- OR FALSE? Investigator (and former nun) Christine Bennett is appalled when a young woman claims to be the natural daughter of Sister Joseph, beloved Superior at St. Stephen's and Chris's dearest friend. But after the girl is m...
FRIENDS UNTIL DEATH Every year, the Morris Avenue Boys--chums since childhood--gather for a Father's Day reunion dinner. Now late in middle age, these men can bask in the rewards of honest success. So which of them seizes the opportunity that fate...
MURDER BURNS ON FIRE ISLAND Island old-timers are stunned by the shooting death of Blue Harbor's popular fire chief, followed by the mysterious torching of his house. Rumors soon begin to flare up about the chief's rumored affairs with a vacationi...
The party’s over . . . On December 30th, Susan Stark was dropped off in front of her parents’ house. She hasn't been heard from since. Not a good scenario, especially in New York.Former nun (now crime investigator) Christine Bennett fears th...
THE BIG CHILL What really happened that tragic Valentine's night on Lake Erie? No one knows. Three old buddies reckless Matty, successful Clark, clever Val-decided to cap Val's birthday celebration with a stroll across the frozen lake. They never ...
FINAL QUESTIONS Until someone killed her, the only mystery about adorable Iris Grodnik was why she had never married. But for sixteen years, her strange disappearance and murder during a Passover seder have remained a troubling piece of family his...
A CELEBRATION OF ABUNDANCE BECOMES A DAY OF LOSS. More than a year ago Natalie Gordon went to buy a balloon at the Thanksgiving Day Parade and dissolved into thin air. The police and a private investigator still have no leads. So when Natalie's desp...
UNHOLY NIGHT... It's a snowy Christmas at St. Stephen's Convent, where a cheerful party awaits an old friend and former confessor, Father Hudson McCormick, who's making his first visit in seven years. He never arrives. Worried Sister Joseph asks Ch...
UNANSWERED PRAYERS Model police officer Scotty McVeigh was one of New York's finest, until someone pumped a pair of bullets into his body on St. Patrick's Day. Ex-nun Chris Bennett and her police-detective boyfriend find this motiveless murder puzzl...
ENTER AT YOUR OWN RISK Former nun Christine Bennett can't wait to attend the christening of her friend Maddie's baby but feels a chill when she hears it's taking place in a town that no longer exists. Studsburg has an extraordinary history. Thirty...
DAY OF JUDGMENT Ex-nun Chris Bennett can’t leave all of her charitable instincts behind, even if she has left the convent. But she'll need more than kindness when she begins helping three elderly people fight a harassing landlord on Manhattan's We...
HOLY DAY...UNHOLY MURDER Christine Bennett has just left the cloistered world of nuns but soons finds herself volunteering to investigate a forty-year-old murder. Pursuing this mission with her old religious zeal, she'll move heaven and earth in n...