Bones and Roses

An amateur sleuth attracts the right clients, the wrong boyfriends-and a kinky killer-in this cozy mystery by New York Times-bestselling author Eileen Goudge.

After wrecking her real estate career in a booze-fueled blowout, Cypress Bay property manager and recovering alcoholic Tish Ballard thought she had put her past behind her. But when she opens an old trunk, a bequest from an anonymous benefactor, she finds it filled with bones and roses.

Suddenly Tish is plunged into a murder case that dates back to her childhood. Pitted against her high school crush, homicide detective Spence Breedlove, she finds herself in jeopardy-in more ways than one.

Can Tish unmask a killer before the man who broke her heart puts her behind bars or, worse, she becomes a corpse herself?

Author Nora Roberts raves that Eileen Goudge "writes like a house on fire"-and with Bones and Roses, the first book in the Cypress Bay Mysteries, the New York Times-bestselling author of Garden of Lies delivers a suspenseful plot, memorable characters, and delectable touches of romance.

Bones and Roses is the 1st book in the Cypress Bay Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.