Enjoy this debut novel in a series from E.D. Degenfelder. An exciting murder mystery laced with suspense, twists and turns, intrigue, betrayal and a touch of romance!
“Great mystery book. Loved it! Hated to put it down to do my chores…â€- J. Achey
A one hundred twenty-five-year old mansion… devastating family secrets…family friends that may not be friends…long smoldering hatred… Wealthy business woman and philanthropist, Eleanor Abbott, is savagely murdered in the family’s historic California mansion. Her daughter, Madeline Abbott Dean is thrown into a frightening downhill spiral of sorrow and guilt.
Madeline must cope with her volatile estranged husband while mourning the loss of her mother. Los Gatos Detectives Scott Cooper and Isabelle Morales work the case as the violence escalates with another vicious murder. Madeline is on the very edge of despair when she learns the death of her beloved father months earlier was murder and not the accident it was believed to be.
The detectives come to believe Madeline’s own life is in danger. Someone seems to be trying to destroy the entire Abbott family…but who and why?
Long held family secrets, simmering hatred and conspiracy threaten Madeline’s life and legacy in this exciting suspenseful murder mystery!