Relative-ly Dead
A Family Tree Mystery
1st Edition
Published on 9. September 2025
287 pages
979-8-9923441-1-0 (ISBN)
Description
Genealogist Betts Harvey prides herself on spotlighting missing ancestral links and restoring life to dying branches of family trees. When a client asks her to find an heir for a centuries-old book of herbal recipes and seeds, the outcome is a brutal case of lights out in a cold alley. Someone wants the book badly enough to kill for it. Determined to protect the heirloom, Betts works to expose the murderer with the help of Warren, her retired firefighter boyfriend, and Philly, coffee-break buddy, and local mud-run champion. Trouble doubles when police suspect Betts. How does a crime novice keep the law at bay and protect herself and her friends from a poisoner, one who has her name at the top of a killer to-do list?
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Heddy Simmons, a Kitsap County, Washington writer, is happiest in her little green shed creating cozy mysteries and researching all things cultural, including paranormal anthropology. She can't help but blend bits and pieces of magic and mayhem with the criminal elements of her characters' adventures. Readers who appreciate dark tension, balanced with the support of strong friendships, will enjoy a Heddy Simmons mystery. Heddy's background includes newspaper reporting, teaching college, and tending to a garden. Currently, Heddy is working on Relative-ly Lifeless, the next book in the Family Tree Mystery Series. She has another mystery out titled Do You Know the Lantern Man: An Elmira Book Club Mystery.
