Julie Jones knows what she is: a country girl, not beautiful but presentable, in skirts too long to be fashionable. A responsible young woman who has been raising her brothers and sisters since her mother's death and helping her father on their hardscrabble farm. Secretly, she wishes someone she could love would find her special enough to come courting.

In The Last Drop of Hemlock, the dazzling follow up to Last Call at the Nightingale, even a dance can come with a price...
The rumor went through the Nightingale like a flood, quietly rising, whispers hovering on lips in pockets of silence.
Life as a working-class girl in Prohibition-era New York isn't safe or easy. But Vivian Kelly has a new job at the Nightingale, an underground speakeasy where the jazz is hot

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A teenager from a small Mississippi River town is, sent to a private boarding school near Boston, surrounded by wealthy classmates, but has a secret that would amaze them all.

Shocking in a clever, poignant way, this story is about a pitiful young guy, who falls in love from afar with a beautiful, wealthy, young and vivacious girl with russet red hair. A seemingly chance run-in with her has a profound impact on the rest of his life.

New York, 1924. Vivian Kelly's days are filled with drudgery, from the tenement lodging she shares with her sister to the dress shop where she sews for hours every day. But at night, she escapes to The Nightingale, an underground dance hall where illegal liquor flows and the band plays the Charleston with reckless excitement. With a bartender willing to slip her a free glass of champagne and friends who know the owner, Vivian can lose herself in the...

Double Mystery! Set in the 1920's Jazz Chronicles centers around Ace Mifflin, private eye, who finds himself plunged into mysteries that go beyond his comfort zone of speakeasies and the streets of Boston. "The Case of the Beguiling Baroness". When famed archeologist Clifford Jennings' Secret Society needs to keep track of Baroness Von Treska, a notorious dabbler in the black arts, they hire Mifflin. And that's when things really get out of hand....

"The Case of the Beguiling Baroness" part 3 of 3. Time is running out for Professor Jennings, private eye Ace Mifflin, and Flynt as they desperately try to find a seemingly supernatural killer that now has taken Flynt's sister.

While Professor Clifton Jennings and Ace Mifflin settle their differences in a heated baseball game, young genius, Nora Carlisle, uncovers a mystery of her own at the college she is attending.

"The Flowers of San Pedro" part 2 of 3. Ace Mifflin finds himself out of his element of speakeasies and city streets as he travels to Colorado into the midst of cutthroats, Indian shamans, and occult evil. Now he has to deal with a town of very angry villagers and a secret tunnel covered with the mysterious flowers of San Pedro. But when the lead starts to fly, how do the four of them stand a chance? And what connection could the flowers that Professor...

"Vote Early and Often" part 2 of 2. Ace Mifflin, private eye, finds himself on the wrong side of the law as he attempts to help an old friend beat a murder charge. On the verge of finding the proof that he needs to clear his friend, his evidence disappears. With the election primary coming up, can Mifflin reassemble all the pieces and prove his allegations that the real murderer is running for office?