House of Beads
(2010)(A book in the House of Beads Mystery series)
An omnibus of novels by Mary Jane Forbes
A saga of triangulated love, terrorists' plots, and murder.
Murder in the House of Beads - Book 1
She's an independent widow. He's a police captain with feelings from the past. Will a murder in their midst rekindle their love?
Catherine Hainsworth may not have much direction, but she always keeps her social calendar full. When the widow puts her creative skills to use in a local craft store, her best friend's sudden suspicious death sets up her next appointment with the coroner. After her friend's upright husband is named the prime suspect, Catherine takes on the new task of proving the man innocent.
Intercept - Book 2
A boat with a corpse. A terrorist plot to poison hundreds. Can a police captain save the day and secure his love without becoming the next victim?
Police captain Manny Salinas and his trusty dog Peaches like to keep the peace in Daytona Beach. When a local intercepts a Mayday call during a hurricane, Manny isn't surprised to find a dead body the next day. However, he never expected to discover the skipper dead from a gunshot wound to the head.
Checkmate - Book 3
A cyber breach worth millions. A conspiracy that could take down a city. A detective and an IT expert may be the city's only hope...
Brenda Kittles is excited for her new start as a computer security expert for a prestigious Daytona Beach architectural firm. But her anxiety builds when an explosion and a dead body point to a cyber crime on her watch. Eager to please her new boss Catherine Hainsworth, she shares the evidence with the city's hardest working police captain.
Identity Theft - book 4
He's presumed dead. She's lost the last thing she has from their love. Infiltrating a terrorist ring will either bring them together or get him killed...
Stephen Hutchinson isn't sure he'll ever recover. After all, the gunshot wounds and his faked death took him away from the love of his life. When his partner tells him Catherine has moved on, Stephen throws himself into an undercover operation to stop a terrorist network. Little does he know that his case and his love are destined to collide...
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Genre: Cozy Mystery
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