Genres: Contemporary Fiction, Cosy Mystery, Mystery
Formats: E-Book, Paperback

Ella Graepenteck’s sleuthing skills have so impressed Detective Cormac Roth that he recommends her to a colleague in charge of a high profile murder case. The victim’s family secrets are the key to finding the killer, but they are frustratingly difficult to unearth. Ella needs her genealogy expertise and all the resourcefulness she can muster to uncover the truth. She also faces new challenges outside of work, because her relationship with Detective Roth is no longer purely professional. The case concerns a body found at the downtown tourist hotspot of Olvera Street, and the victim turns out to be one of three sisters who used to be a famous singing group. All Ella has to go on is a vaguely threatening note that was found in the young woman’s pocket. While she is digging up the family’s history, the pool of suspects and the list of possible motives keep growing....

Genres: Contemporary Fiction, Cosy Mystery, Mystery
Formats: E-Book, Paperback

When Detective Cormac Roth calls, asking for help with a murder high in the Hollywood Hills, genealogist Ella Graepenteck is happy to oblige, and not just because she remembers his intriguing hazel eyes. Consulting for the police could be an exciting new branch of her career. Unfortunately, Detective Rafael Vasquez, Roth’s partner and mentor, doubts the value of Ella’s participation, but the best way for her to prove him wrong is to crack this puzzling case. Ella’s initial task is to clear up confusion about the victim’s extended family and their ties to the luxurious house in which he was killed. She quickly unearths a family secret, which leads her to another one, and another. Her work keeps expanding, uncovering multiple potential motives and throwing suspicion in different directions. Her well-honed research skills and her sometimes dangerous curiosity, along with some insight from her own eccentric relatives, guide Ella through...

Genres: Contemporary Fiction, Cosy Mystery, Mystery
Formats: E-Book, Paperback

Los Angeles genealogist Ella Graepenteck is used to surprises. Clients lie, and old documents can reveal uncomfortable information. Stumbling across a dead body, though, is a more surprising experience than usual, and it leads Ella into a dangerous web of secrets and suspicions going back many generations. To find her way out, she will need all her professional skills, the help of eccentric relatives, and the trust of a detective with intriguing hazel eyes. It starts with a new client’s fairly ordinary request. She wants to know who her grandmother’s father was. Ella makes a routine appointment to look at some 1920s movie memorabilia and lands in the middle of a murder investigation. It seems like a random piece of bad luck, so she tries to keep her focus on her work, but connections start to appear between the murder and Ella’s research. The lead investigator considers Ella’s discoveries mostly...

Genres: General Fiction, Historical Fiction, Young Adult (YA)
Formats: E-Book, Paperback

It’s 1985. Exhausted by her complicated family, seventeen year old Tamar Kelly longs for something different. She seizes an opportunity to spend a year as an exchange student in Thailand, which sounds as far away as it’s possible to go. There, across the world from her home in California, she finds excitement, confusion, new kinds of complication, and new sources of exhaustion. It’s not easy, but it’s definitely different, and it might just change everything.