Killer Tied

Eve Appel Egret is adjusting to married life with Sammy and their three adopted sons in Sabal Bay, Florida. While still running her consignment stores, she is going pro with her sleuthing by becoming an apprentice to a private detective. Until her marriage, Eves only "family" was her grandmother Grandy, who raised her after her parents died in a boating accident. Now, in addition to her husband and sons, she has a father-in-law who clearly dislikes her. Sammys father, a full-blooded Miccosukee Indian long presumed dead, has emerged from the swamps where hes been living like a hermit, and he isnt happy about Eves marriage to his half-Miccosukee, half-white son. As for Eves family, are her parents really dead? A woman named Eleanor claims to be Eves half-sister, born after her mother faked a boating accident to escape her abusive husband, Eves father. Then Eleanors father turns up dead in the swamps, stabbed by a Bowie knife belonging to Sammys father, Lionel. Strange as Lionel Egret is, Eve knows he had no motive to kill this stranger. In order to clear him, Eve must investigate Eleanors claims, and she might not like what digging around in her familys past uncovers. Book 6 in the Eve Appel Mystery series.