by Eleanor Boylan (1992)
As a balmy and leisurely summer at their beach house draws to a close, Clara, Sadd, and the rest of the Gamadge family savor the tang of salt air and the squish of sand between their toes. Their blissful tranquillity is shattered, however, when Armand Evers, a man whom Clara and Sadd knew in their youth, suddenly reappears after forty years with a strange tale to tell and a prediction of his own murder. Evers' story is clouded with shadows from the past and is full of family intrigues and hints of illegitimate heirs. When his prophecy is tragically fulfilled and he is found dead in a New York City hotel, Clara and company find themselves reluctantly drawn into a tangled web of stolen inheritances and switched identities. Was the dead man Armand, or was it his nearly identical cousin, the unstable and spendthrift Boyd? When Rachael, another member of the Evers' clan and a dear friend of Clara's, is also threatened, Clara flies to Ireland to catch a rogue. But as she investigates, she begins to suspect the murderer is not working alone and fears that the accomplice is closer to home. Clara must play a dangerous game of cat and mouse with the killer until she can force him to reveal his hand - and she must do it before another old friend dies.
J.A. Jance
In the heat of the Arizona desert, a raging fire pushes temperatures to a deadly degree, and one woman is left to burn. Pulled naked and barely breathing from the fire, the victim has no idea who she is, let alone who would do this to her--or why
Annette Meyers
Olivia spends a holiday weekend in Croton with the artists and writers of her circle which ends horribly when the family nanny is found frozen and hanging from a tree.
Ed Dee
A robbery at New York's JFK airport leads to the death of a baggage handler who was wearing a police jacket belonging to his father, a retired policeman. Detective Joe Gregory, the policeman's old partner, goes after the killers, but so does the victim's grandfather, a trigger-happy individual, complicating the hunt. By the author of Bronx Angel.
Sara J. Henry
Freelance writer Troy Chance is snapping photos of the Saranac Lake Winter Carnival ice palace when the ice-cutting machine falls silent. Encased in the ice is a body. One of her rooommates falls under suspicion and the media descends. Troy is assigned to write an in-depth feature on the dead man, who, it turns out, was the son of a wealthy Connecticut family but playing at a blue collar life. The deeper Troy digs into his life and death, the murkier things become.