Ghosts
Philip Westerbrooke, an attractive and brilliant young man with a troubled past, unexpectedly finds himself filling in for a semester as an instructor at a prominent New England women’s college. The time is 1965, during the early years of the Civil Rights movement and the Vietnam War. Crandon College for Women is already on the brink of political activism, when the brutal murder of one of the college’s students wrongly implicates Philip, prompting several students to come to his defense. Aided by two professors who well know the meaning of false accusations, plus a recent graduate with memories of her own, these students try to help Philip get to the bottom of an increasingly intricate and dangerous case. The murder has occurred on campus, but the victim regularly frequented some of the seediest bars in Crandon, a decaying industrial river town. Crandon’s blue-collar townspeople resent the college’s wealth and privilege, as well as its politics, and relations between town and gown have long been tense. The victim seems to have mingled with some of Crandon’s most volatile elements, and Philip soon discovers that finding the killer means entering a world of drug abuse, racism and hate.
Ebook available Spring 2014
Rembrandt Quartet
Conspiracy, intrigue, murder—“The Fifth Face” takes the reader from the dark and dangerous days of wartime Paris to the swinging scene of New York in the 1960s. A glamorous French pianist, her collaborationist husband, and a ruthless oil tycoon intersect with a dashing young Austrian count of dubious origins and a Swiss banker’s beautiful daughter. Their dangerous liaisons spin a web of deadly deceit that impacts decades later on a young British jet-setter, his unstable wife, and a cold-blooded killer. An unusual painting by Rembrandt lies at the heart of this international tale, where few things—or people—are what they seem, and the sins of the past lead to murder. The first of a series, introducing Philip Westerbrooke and his remarkable world.
Ebook available Spring 2014
Last Tango in Venice
Publication Date to be announced
???The Westerbrooke Trilogy
By Mary McAuliffe