This is the first installment of The Dolphin's Landing Cozy Mystery series (27 page novelette). Annie Laine lives in the small town of Dolphin's Landing and can't resist a good mystery! When a murder mystery surrounding a fabulous necklace, the Blue Love, drops into the shop she owns, Beautiful Jewels, her curiosity is more than she can bear. Bart Keane's death is being attributed to the bad luck attached to this beautiful necklace. Investigating the death associated with the 'sinister' necklace, Annie finds affairs, good people, not-so-good people and more mystery. Come along for the excitement while amateur sleuth Annie finds the killer and frees the necklace from a legacy of doom!

Annie Laine is at it again! It seems Bill Owens recently moved back to Annie’s small town of Dolphin’s Landing (in Northern California) only to get himself killed. Bill had gone to college in Dolphin’s Landing years before, where he fought, antagonized, and bullied his way through. Did an old nemesis catch up to him and do him in? Or could it be someone from his present who followed him to town and decided it was a good place for Bill to die? Whichever way had brought about this murder, Annie is thrust into investigating when someone close to her employee and friend, Patty, is accused of carrying out the killing. Investigating the past and the present can be dangerous, Annie finds out. People aren’t happy with her inquires and want to keep their private lives to themselves, which leaves Annie having to work to uncover secrets they would rather keep buried. When she does figure out the identity of the killer can she get help before she becomes the next victim? This is the second book of the Dolphin’s Landing Mystery Series.