Mark de Castrique

At first it appears a mugging gone horribly wrong: one man dead and a woman left in a coma one Friday night in Washington, D.C. The woman is Arlington police detective Frank Mancini's niece and lives in the boarding house run by retired FBI-agent-turned-landlady Ethel Fiona Crestwater....

At seventy-five-years-old, Ethel Fiona Crestwater is used to being underestimated. She looks like someone's grandma, although she's never married or had children; petite and a bit frail, she's not a threat to anyone. Or is she....

"You want to borrow a casket?" Funeral director and part-time sheriff Barry Clayton finds United States Junior Chamber member Archie Donovan’s request absurd....

As a child’s life hangs in the balance, Gene Adamson believes he’s cracked a conspiracy wide open. He is so wrong....