Dark Water under the Bridge, book #3 in the Parks Pat Mysteries series, is now out. Looking for some more police procedurals to fill your eReader? Check out my latest blog post, for the latest in the Parks Pat Mysteries and more police procedural mysteries by other authors.
Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme. Read the rules and more teasers at The Purple Booker. Anyone can play along.
This week’s teaser is from All By Myself, Alone by Mary Higgins Clark. I think the first book that I read by Mary Higgins Clark was The Cradle Will Fall, a scary medical thriller that kind of freaked me out as a twelve- or thirteen-year-old. I was hooked. All By Myself, Alone, is part of Mary Higgins Clark’s Alvirah & Willy Series, a cozy mystery series far removed from the medical thriller genre. But it is still good. Full of interesting characters, several murders and attempted murders, and a priceless emerald necklace all aboard a cruise ship.
In case you haven’t read any of the series, Alvirah and Willy are amateur sleuths, a reporter and her plumber husband who won a lottery, an event that turns their lives upside down and throws them into all kinds of interesting situations they have not previously faced.
In case you’re wondering if All By Myself, Alone or something about it inspired my book Gem, Himself, Alone… no. Sorry. They are nothing alike but they are both awesome books and you should get them both!
As the passengers began to disperse, wishing each other “Bon voyage,” they could not know that at least one of them would not reach Southampton alive.
Mary Higgins Clark, All By Myself, Alone
Fleeing the disastrous and humiliating last-minute arrest of her fiancé on the eve of their wedding, Celia, an expert on gems and jewelry, is hoping to escape from reality on a glamorous cruise ship.
But it is not to be. On board in the most luxurious suite is the elderly and world-famous Lady Emily Harworth. Immensely wealthy, Lady Em is the owner of a priceless emerald necklace that she intends to leave to the Smithsonian on her death.
Three days later Lady Em is found dead—and the necklace is missing. Is it the work of her apparently devoted secretary, or her lawyer-executor, both of whom she had invited on board for the cruise?
Celia, with the help of her new friends Willy and Alvirah Meehan—who are splurging on their wedding anniversary—sets out to find who the killer is, not realizing that she may have put a target on her back.
