A Helen Bradley Mystery Helen returns to her beach home on the Oregon coast after a month-long honeymoon in Europe to find her door ajar, her house ransacked and the body of her house-sitter in the back yard. Hardly a proper homecoming, but semi-retired Helen Bradley is determined to put her house in order and find the killer at all costs.

After ten years of widowhood, Helen Bradley is in the prime of her life with a wonderful new husband, a terrific job as a freelance travel writer, and the occasional assignment from her former employer - the U.S. government - just to keep life interesting. But a phone call from Irene Kincaid detailing her husband's mysterious death interrupts Helen's leisurely pace. A prominent gerontologist, Dr. Paul Kincaid had developed a number of anti-aging products, including what was hoped to be a cure for Alzheimer's Disease. When Irene dies following a gunshot wound, Helen is convinced that secrets are lurking in Kincaid laboratories and someone is willing to kill to keep them quiet. To discover the truth, Helen checks herself into Edgewood Manor one of the best convalescent homes in the county and Dr. Kincaid's dream child. Helen Bradley's son had pleaded with her not to go there. Once inside, Helen understands why.

Helen Bradley's latest assignment takes her to a coastal town in Washington State where she's to finish assembling a regional travel guide. Arriving at the quaint B & B where she'll be staying, she learns why the original author, Isabelle Dupont, couldn't finish the project - she's dead. Helen's host at the B & B insists that her death had something to do with the guidebook and that a local fisherman has the answers to the mystery. Now, with the fisherman's dark secret buried with him at sea, Helen must decide if she too will become a killer's victim...

An impromptu family reunion on a lovely, secluded island becomes far from joyous when Helen Bradley's beloved yet eccentric uncle Paddy dies after sharing his suspicion that attempts have been made on his life.Discovering that she is now part-owner of Paddy's impressive estate, Helen plunges into the investigation of his murder, but each discovery is riddled with possible motives. A faithful nurse stands to inherit a substantial sum at Paddy's death, and Paddy's own children harbor masons that portray them as suspects, too. And what of Paddy's own speculations of a strange, legendary haunting? Helen realizes that her quest to discover the truth must succeed before death strikes again.

Book 4 of the Helen Bradley Mysteries. Newly remarried, Helen finds herself troubled when J.B. departs for Portland after a mysterious call. News of two deaths soon follows, and only Helen can shed light on the layers of surrounding mystery.