Bones & Bloodlines
(2023)(The first book in the Jude and Audie West Mystery series)
A novel by Laurie Alberswerth
Thirty years ago, the small Missouri town of Renarde held its first Halloween bonfire. No one could’ve known two families would go up in the flames.
A tiny cemetery, hidden by farm fields, was supposed to put the nail in the coffin for Jude and Audie West’s client. But finding the 1861 resting place of Elise Durand only added more questions to the family tree… along with an extra body.
Swaddled in a modern blanket, the skeleton lay exposed at the edge of the corn stalks, exhuming grief, suspicion, and pain three decades in the making.
Quarrelling siblings unable to see past their own heartache, a minister whipping his flock toward heaven—Renarde is smoldering with secrets the Wests never expected. But when cryptic messages are hammered to their camper-sweet-camper, the couple realizes they need to expose the truth or they may be next for the graveyard.
Where does that leave Elise, a two-century-old mystery spanning four husbands? Or her lost children, whose names change faster than the Missouri weather? How much grief can one woman bear? That question, Audie could answer. For the others, she and Jude must piece together the puzzle of Elise’s story—and escape Renarde—before there’s another death in the family.
Genre: Mystery
A tiny cemetery, hidden by farm fields, was supposed to put the nail in the coffin for Jude and Audie West’s client. But finding the 1861 resting place of Elise Durand only added more questions to the family tree… along with an extra body.
Swaddled in a modern blanket, the skeleton lay exposed at the edge of the corn stalks, exhuming grief, suspicion, and pain three decades in the making.
Quarrelling siblings unable to see past their own heartache, a minister whipping his flock toward heaven—Renarde is smoldering with secrets the Wests never expected. But when cryptic messages are hammered to their camper-sweet-camper, the couple realizes they need to expose the truth or they may be next for the graveyard.
Where does that leave Elise, a two-century-old mystery spanning four husbands? Or her lost children, whose names change faster than the Missouri weather? How much grief can one woman bear? That question, Audie could answer. For the others, she and Jude must piece together the puzzle of Elise’s story—and escape Renarde—before there’s another death in the family.
Genre: Mystery
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