Bøger af S W Hubbard

A reclusive heiress...a loyal servant...a mansion frozen in time.After her husband's plane goes down in a WWII battle, a poor nurse becomes the wealthiest widow in town.And she never leaves her mansion for 70 years.When estate sale organizer Audrey Nealon enters the Tate Mansion after the widow's death, she discovers nothing's been changed since the day the house was built. Why did the heiress and her maid eat canned soup and read used paperbacks surrounded by magnificent art and antiques? Why were the house and its contents bequeathed to a small local charity? Audrey's idle curiosity soon turns into a desperate need-to-know. Because someone wants to profit from the Tate Mansion's secrets. And if others have to die to make that happen, so be it. Can Audrey outwit a wily con man? Or is she is too smart to live? Tired of predictable mysteries that you have figured out long before the end? Rejoice! The characters you love--Audrey, Ty, Sean, and Ethel the shelter dog--are back in another twisty adventure.

Any risk is worth taking when you have this much to lose.Estate sale organizer Audrey Nealon combines business with pleasure as she plans a sale at the exquisite beach home of the Gardner family. But the romantic getaway weekend with her husband is shattered when the body of a teenage boy washes up on the sand. The death soon proves to be more than an unpleasant distraction from Audrey's work. Sophia, the troubled young woman who lives next door to the Gardners, is wracked with guilt over the death of her friend. When Audrey rescues Sophia from a rash action, she is pulled into the vortex of lies and cover-ups swirling through the exclusive community of Sea Chapel, NJ. Where should Audrey place her trust-with the client who hired her or with the melodramatic Sophia, who reminds her of her teenage self.Someone in this enclave knows how and why the boy died, but these families will close ranks to protect their own. And they won't hesitate to destroy an outsider like Audrey who threatens their way of life.Audrey's curiosity and compassion pull her into danger. Will her wit and determination be enough to restore justice? Or has Audrey met her match in this killer who has everything to lose?Plot twists and lovable, believable characters are what keep readers coming back for more adventures in the Palmyrton Estate Sale Mystery Series. Start now and read all night!

Tug O'Malley is dead, and there's not a wet eye in the house.When Trout Run's foremost curmudgeon turns up murdered, there are more suspects than mourners. Even Tug O'Malley's own family found him irritating and abrasive.But Police Chief Frank Bennett still has to investigate the crime, whether he liked the victim or not.Frank turns up plenty of reasons why someone left Tug to die in an ice fishing shack--his provocative politics, his obsessive nosiness, his casual cruelty. But as Frank works through the clues and rules out one suspect after another, his heart grows heavy. Because once the distractions are cleared away, all roads lead to a murderer who's far more beloved than Tug O' Malley.Now Frank must decide: should he follow the rule of law or can he find an alternative path to justice?

Short mysteries. Big twists. The beauty of the Adirondack Mountains offers no protection from evil. Join Police Chief Frank Bennett as he investigates three puzzling crimes in idyllic Trout Run, NY. In "Chainsaw Nativity," Frank's relentless pursuit of the thief who stole the Joseph statue from the town's Nativity scene brings him up against the limits of compassion. In "Losers Weepers" a locket that's lost, found, and stolen holds the secret to past betrayals and leads Frank to suspect the people he trusts the most. And in "Coyote Justice" Frank's simmering attraction to Penny the librarian threatens to divert him from the path of justice. These three short mystery stories explore twisting mountain trails just as surely as the precipitous terrain of the human heart.

Lydia Eastlee has skipped a decade of her life.When she married a much older man, Lydia took a shortcut from grad student to middle-aged matron. Do not pass go. Do not drink jug wine or buy Ikea bookshelves.Now Lydia finds herself a 45-year-old widow. She's got a suburban McMansion she doesn't want, a hole in her day where her job used to be, and a bunch of married-couple friends eligible for Social Security.Lydia wants to start over and recapture the endless possibilities life offers at age 25.She adopts a shelter dog with issues.Buys a charming little starter home on the verge of collapse.And accepts a job she doesn't know how to do.Lydia soon learns that youth isn't for the faint-hearted. Her dead husband is trying to control her future through the terms of his will. And her impulsive decisions may cost her some new friendships she can't bear to lose.But with the help of a quirky dog trainer, a hilarious colleague, and a hunky young carpenter, Lydia may get a second chance at the life she missed.

Full moon or full evil?Cops and ER nurses agree--a full moon brings out the crazy in people. Police Chief Frank Bennett isn't superstitious. But he can't explain why the people--and even the animals--of Trout Run are behaving out of character. A wild animal at his door, a hallucinating hiker, a violent freak-out at the general store--what's going on in his normally placid town in the Adirondacks?Then weird turns to deadly, and Frank has a violent death and a missing person to investigate. Is the missing man a perpetrator or a victim? Some people suspect the strange doings in town are related to the arrival of an unusual new church. But maybe the Tabernacle of Living Light is just a convenient scapegoat for something much darker eating at the town's soul. Something powerful people and their allies will kill to conceal.Bringing the evil to justice requires risking the life of an idealistic young woman. Frank's desire to stay in control of events is put to the test. Will he win the battle but lose the war?Join Police Chief Frank Bennett as he solves another perplexing case and struggles to protect the town he loves.

How can one word upend a life? A series of setbacks has left adjunct college professor Roz Schmidt one blown tire away from total financial collapse. Then she lands her dream job as a full-time professor at a local college. Good-bye to robbing Peter to pay Paul. Hello to a sunny new apartment and honest-to-goodness health insurance. The bonus for curvy, self-conscious Roz: her new-found confidence attracts a hunky fireman with romance potential.Enter the word. When a student misinterprets a comment, Roz stands to lose everything she's worked so hard to attain. How can she be right back where she started? Maybe it's time to put her PhD on the shelf and start waiting tables. Or maybe it's time for Roz to find the strength, and the friends, to remake herself and claim the life she deserves.This second installment of the Life in Palmyrton women's fiction series focuses on Roz Schmidt while continuing the story-line of her best friend, Lydia Eastlee, the heroine of Life, Part 2.

She partied with rock'n'roll royalty.They'll kill to keep their crowns.Cordelia Dean danced in the rain at Woodstock, drank with Jimi Hendrix in Paris, practiced yoga with John and Yoko at the Dakota, shared a room with Patti Smith at the Chelsea Hotel.Or so she says.Now Cordy Dean is a washed-up rock journalist living off Social Security in a crumbling house in Palmyrton, NJ. Estate sale organizer Audrey Nealon must sift through Cordy's trove of rock memorabilia and find some saleable items to keep the aging hippie solvent.The collector's items Cordy boasts about might be figments of her imagination...or might be valuable enough to kill for.When a man turns up murdered in Palmyrton, Audrey discovers the freaks and misfits who surround Cordy aren't as harmless as she thought. And her search for rock and roll treasure takes on new intensity. Because the objects that lie concealed in Cordy's house just might rewrite the history of rock 'n' roll.Everyone knows history is written by the winners.After the losers get killed.