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Changes in Elle’s appearance began when she bought the house, and her friends were pleased—a nice change from the ponytail and her usual jeans and work boots. But it was Elle’s occasional lapse into a haughty British accent that most disturbed her friends. And it was a death at Elle’s house that most puzzled law enforcement.

It is in the early morning hours on a rainy night, when the sound of gunshots is reported by a trawler crossing the bar from the bay into the ocean. Nora Brady, a detective with the Jefferson County Sheriff’s department, is called to the south spit—that remote strip of land separating the Pacific Ocean from Williams Bay. Three murder victims, with no apparent connection, have been discovered near a lone campsite. The subsequent investigation by Nora and her partner, Sam Duffy, provide a number of possible suspects, but each one seems to lack sufficient motive.

In this third book of Nora Brady’s adventure, Nora and her friend Tina are now in Dublin, Ireland, on a work-study phase of their student-nursing program. Charmed by life in Dublin, Nora soon learns that even there people can have a dark side. After meeting fellow students Ailish and Maire, who are cousins of her friend from home, Dan Maguire—the police detective in Jacobsport—she once again becomes entangled in a web of politics, lost jewels, and murder. This time, however, she has help from above.

When a wooden box filled with old newspaper clippings is found in Sophie Dawson’s attic of fifty years, no one is prepared for the family secrets they discover. With their grandmother’s unwillingness to answer questions about the findings, the family is left to guess at answers which will forever haunt them.

Nora Brady has left the sheriff's department after a personal tragedy leads her to re-evaluate her life. She takes a job in the oncology clinic at Harrison Hospital, where she has been a per-diem nurse for some years. When it's discovered that a patient who had been treated in the clinic dies while on a cruise, but an autopsy reveals no evidence of cancer, Nora and her friends are left to wonder if he was the only victim. Unwilling to alert the perpetrators, Nora and the team covertly explore the who and why of such a deplorable scheme.

In the sleepy town of Jacobsport, California, shadows from the past return. Bob Doyle, once the golden boy of the sheriff's department, who fled under a cloud of suspicion, is found brutally murdered at the isolated fishing camp of Tom King, his former partner. Whispers of corruption and betrayal swirl through the pines when it is learned that Brian Lang, a former Jacobsport firefighter, has also returned.