Troubled Water - Peter Bartholomew, Bk 4 Author:Sally Gunning WHEN SECRETS ARE HIDDEN TOO DEEP, MISFORTUNE IS SURE TO SURFACE . . . — Peter Bartholomew has rehired his ex-wife Connie at Factorum, his odd-job company at Nashtobia Island, But his hopes of rekindling her love are waylaid when he finds Annabel Bates collapsed on her own porch, an unopened bottle of pills just out of her ... more »reach -- and Connie discovers Annabel's sister Clara, who is slumbering altogether too peacefully. Dr. Hardy Rogers quickly pronounces both women dead of natural causes. But Pete can't forget the bruise-like blotches on Annabel's upper arm and leg...
Then he finds their month-old wills. Annabel has left everything to her great-niece Paula, an infrequent visitor, but Clara, with a cryptic note, has made Connie her sole heir. Connie is numb -- and scared of Paula, who will stop at nothing to claim the property, bulldoze the house and subdivide the land. Paula's relentless -- but is she up to murder?
Pete is determined to protect Connie, and convinced that the Bates sisters died of unnatural causes. Consider the doctor who knows more than he's telling, the greedy would-be executor and his mendacious wife, the mysterious red-headed burglar, the spurned suitor -- and the swamp of toxic secrets hidden by two spinster sisters who would rather die than reveal the truth. Had someone given them a helping hand? « less