Brain Teaser Mystery

Heather Samuelson is moving through the supermarket checkout line when she encounters her Aunt Myrtle, worrying that her friend, Anna, has not returned from a jaunt across the store for free coffee. Moments later, Heather sets out on a search for Anna that takes her straight into a pitch-black storeroomand a gruesome murder scene. With one man dead and her aunts friend on her way to the hospital, Heather is once again plunged into circumstances beyond her control, as she tries to discover who killed Michael Santiam and wonders whether the murderer plans to return to finish off her aunts friend. Determined to solve the puzzle before her upcoming wedding, Heather partners with the police department and her fianc detective, Jazz, to search for the identity of Anna, whose memory only goes back two years. Just when she is getting somewhere, Anna suddenly disappears from her hospital bed. Now Heather must determine if Anna is being held captive or if someone is protecting herand if or how the recent turn of events ties into a murder committed twenty years earlier. In this brain teaser mystery, an amateur sleuth immersed in a complex investigation to solve a murder must find the link between the past and present before a killer strikes again.

Heather Samuelson has always loved puzzles, but her next one may be more challenging than the rest. Heather and her sisters have inherited a letter and a package full of cards from their recently deceased mother. The letter itself contains a rather creepy fairy tale, and the cards were all sent after their father died. What, exactly, was their mother trying to tell them? Heather also discovers a scrapbook with a collection of obituaries and details of a murder trial in her mothers things, further deepening the puzzle. Does it have something to do with one of their fathers former clients? After all, as a witness, he helped put away some pretty hardened criminals. As Heather dives deeper into the mystery, the danger becomes all too real. Events in Heathers neighborhooda burglarized home, a mysterious neighbor, and her sisters near-fatal run-in with a carare seemingly unrelated to solving the riddle of her parents past. But it soon becomes all too clear that nothing is as it seems.