FLEECED in STONINGTON

FLEECED in STONINGTON, second in the Kate Bart Mystery series.

Who knew lending money could be deadly?

Kate’s interior design business is growing. So is her sizzling hot relationship with Dutch, her partner in PI in the deceptively picturesque town of Stonington, New Jersey. But where there’s a bank, there’s a scam—and Stonington’s banks are under siege.

The crooks’ methods are nothing new—taking out fraudulent loans using a non-existent corporation as a front—but this one has a new twist. Not only are the lost millions threatening to bankrupt Stonington’s savings institutions, some of the greedy bank officers who approved the loans are going belly up. As in murdered.

Hired to track the killers, Kate and Dutch chase down a meandering trail of dead-end clues through northern New Jersey. And each new bit of hard evidence comes with a price—a rising body count. With their friends under threat, Kate and Dutch race to put the pieces together. Before it’s death for another victim.

PLACES MENTIONED IN FLEECED

CURTAINS in STONINGTON

One death after another—will there be any customers left for Kate’s decorating business?

A Kate Bart Mystery
British-born Kate Bart, the interior decorator in this New Jersey town, helps her friend, Dutch, with his P.I. investigations. He’s decided that he’d like to be more than just a pal, so things get hot when they’re working together. She’s been a widow for some time now, but although she’s attracted to him, she still needs time to learn how to love again.

The arrival of the new sexy undertaker causes a ripple in the traditional-minded townspeople. She slinks around meeting Tom Yoast, the general store owner. What’s she after? He’s certainly no trophy husband-to-be.

“You’ll have ta deal with two dead people very soon,” Carmella, an elderly Italian psychic, warns Kate. Just what she wanted, something more to scare her as she and Dutch search for clues to solve the mysterious deaths. They follow leads, some to dead ends, but in the end the perpetrators are brought to justice.

 No explicit sex, but you will find relationships that die a sudden death and relationships that take a warm turn—see what happens in a small quiet country town.

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THE DRAGONFLY

A Bury St. Edmunds Historical Time-Travel Novel. Available from Whiskey Creek Press and Amazon.com

A history professor, Cathy White, is in a car accident that delivers a traumatic blow to her head. She wakes to find herself in a 620 A.D. Anglo-Saxon village, where her knowledge of the future confuses the villagers.

Her further travels take her to a 1606 manorhome in Bury St. Edmunds, England, where she warns of the plight of the Jamestown, Virginia, explorers. The owner of the manor is Bartholomew Gosnold who planned the journey to America and captained the expeditionary sailing ship, Godspeed, accompanied by the ships, Susan Constant and the Discovery. Their landing in Virginia on the James River on May 12, 1607 is marked by the 400th anniversary being celebrated in 2007 in what is now known as Jamestown. Celebrations will take place in Virginia and in England, including a special service held at the Cathedral in Bury St. Edmunds, marking the founding of the first English-speaking settlement in the United States. Cathy’s foretelling of the outcome of the Jamestown voyage is misinterpreted and causes problems for her with the superstitious townspeople.

Cathy’s final destination is a country village in 1943, during World War II, where she lives as a Land Army gal. Being a history professor provides her with knowledge of the war which she recounts, raising governmental suspicions toward her.
Throughout the story, her goal is to find her way back to her husband in present time. Woven throughout this story is the true, fascinating, history of the author's hometown in England.

THE LIFE of OUIDA

The Romantic Victorian Writer from Bury St. Edmunds, a non-fiction biography booklet. Self-published and now available.

Louise de la Ramé (known as Ouida) was born in Bury St. Edmunds, England, in 1839. During her lifetime she wrote more than forty novels, numerous articles, and many children’s stories that were read the world over. Some of her books were translated into other languages including Japanese, Dutch, and Yiddish. In 1975 her children’s book, A Dog of Flanders, was made into a very popular TV series based on the story by the Japanese Nippon Animation Company. That book has been made into a movie several times including one made in 1935, 1959, and 1999 starring Jon Voight. Several versions of her book, Under Two Flags, have been made. The first was in 1916 with Theda Bara in a lead role, then the 1922 version starred Rudolph Valentino, and in 1936, a talkie this time, starred Ronald Colman and Claudette Colbert. Ouida was a plain-looking, arrogant woman who led an extravagant lifestyle but died in poverty. She helped start the Italian Society for the Prevention of Cruelty on Animals, was an animal rights activist and at one time owned as many as thirty pampered dogs.

LAVENDER and LOVE

 A contemporary, mainstream novel w/romantic elements. Lavender’s intertwined in Angela’s life—from the family’s lavender fields in England, to the lavender fields of France. While living in England, Italy, France, and the U.S., she grows from a dependent, twice-divorced woman into a self-sufficient, successful entrepreneur. All that’s missing is her truelove, her first husband. He says he still loves her, but why was she commanded to meet him and his lawyers at a Pennsylvania estate? Is he going to take their son away?

. . . quick paced . . . reads like an enchanting movie . . . unique attention to detail . . . intimately portrays a strong heroine and the hardships she endures . . .is a must read for anyone who needs encouragement in their personal life. The Road to Romance

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