Camille Howland Mariani, retired college public relations director, journalist, and newspaper editor, is the author of several magazine articles, as well as the SUNY Canton College history, "Seventy Years of Change," Having turned to writing fiction, she previously published "Lucille's Lie," The Maine native resides with her husband, Albert J. Mariani, in Sun City Center, Florida.
On returning to her home city of Twin Ports, Maine, Dee Major learns that her mother, Aletha, is dead. Officials call the hanging a suicide. But Dee has good reason to believe it is murder as well as a...
Camille Howland Mariani, retired college public relations director, journalist, and newspaper editor, is the author of several magazine articles, as w...
Pandora Piper, better known as Dora, longs for hope in her hum-drum life. She retires to Hope Haven, Florida, believing that its very name suggests the quality of life she seeks. And for her, hope would surely be realized if she could find the right man, preferably a wealthy man. After she meets, and begins to fall in love with, the stereotype of her dream man, Dora makes a devastating discovery. He may be wanted by the law for murdering his wife. However, while she attempts to learn the truth about this man, danger lurks much closer to her new home as a sex offender targets her for his next...
Pandora Piper, better known as Dora, longs for hope in her hum-drum life. She retires to Hope Haven, Florida, believing that its very name suggests th...
Journalist Sheldon Merrill is assigned to cover a farm fire which destroys one of northern New York's showplace farmsteads. Added to this loss is the discovery of a woman's body, not a victim of the fire but of a murderer.
While the killer remains at large, Sheldon is intrigued by an eccentric young multi-millionaire and his dying sister, Lucille, who makes a shocking confession to her. Lucille pleads for her help to rectify a shattering lie she told her brother.
When it appears that her life is finally back to normal, Sheldon opens her door to a knock . and finds herself face-to-face...
Journalist Sheldon Merrill is assigned to cover a farm fire which destroys one of northern New York's showplace farmsteads. Added to this loss is the ...
A top newspaper position in the peaceful Maine city of Fairchance appeals to Beth Armstrong as ideal. But she soon learns that reporting has a dark side when she must photograph the slashed body of a young woman, found on the golf course. Two more similar muders panic local residents, who demand a more aggressive investigation. When Beth discovers the motive linking the victims, she never guesses that she may become the fourth.
A top newspaper position in the peaceful Maine city of Fairchance appeals to Beth Armstrong as ideal. But she soon learns that reporting has a dark si...
On the day that Ed Ingel is shot to death in his home, Dr. Karl Graham and his secretary, Daisy Winslow, start out for a weekend environmental conference in Montreal, only to end up in a crash on a northwestern Maine country road. While the search for Ingel's killer in Fairchance unearths more than anyone could guess about the victim, Daisy's foray to summon help for her trapped employer lands her in the hands of two brothers whose hospitality includes promise of a deadly ritual.
On the day that Ed Ingel is shot to death in his home, Dr. Karl Graham and his secretary, Daisy Winslow, start out for a weekend environmental confere...
On the day Dee Poore announces the closing of her rehab camp, ending its ten-year operation, she accepts an invitation to speak at a health forum in Fairchance. There she meets an old acquaintance, Natalie Burke, and accepts the offer to serve as temporary reporter at the local newspaper. Soon Dee is launched into more intrigue than she anticipated, with a murder, a fatal accident, and a possible kidnap victim, all under investigation. Not the least of Dee's concerns, however, is her own safety, threatened by a persistent caller who ends his brief message with, "Ashes to ashes, Dee Major...
On the day Dee Poore announces the closing of her rehab camp, ending its ten-year operation, she accepts an invitation to speak at a health forum in F...
A wedding ring with a curse from long ago, a honeymoon in cold Florida, a militia group led by a delusional general with plans for revolution ...these highlight the first month of married life for Astrid and Abram.
A wedding ring with a curse from long ago, a honeymoon in cold Florida, a militia group led by a delusional general with plans for revolution ...th...