This series of four cozy historical mysteries is set in the eighteen-seventies on the Murray River where Emma Haythorne’s comfortable life at Wirramilla, her family’s sheep station, is about to be turned upside down. There’s a murder, and an old promise raises its ugly head. She might be able to solve the murder, but what she does to avoid the promise leaves her with a share in a riverboat and a business partner who doesn’t approve of anything she does, especially getting involved in murder.
Would she have fared better if she’d honoured the promise?
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Book #1 – Saddled with Death – When Margaret Macdonald, terminally ill and fearing for her family’s future, begs Emma to investigate a suspicious death in their stable, how can she refuse the dying woman? But then that old promise is called in and Emma finds herself battling on two fronts. Not that any of it will matter in the end, murder or promise, if her questions put her squarely in the killer’s sights.
Book #2 – A Gem of a Problem– Emma’s family never approved of her marriage so when her husband’s shady activities threaten ruin whatever she decides to do had better be done on the quiet. Once she’s put the matter to rights her family need never know what deep pit her marriage brought them to the edge of. Do they? But will Daniel risk his reputation to help her bring a resolution? Because time is fast running out.
Book #3 – A Body in the Woodpile– As river levels fall on the Murray Emma is looking forward to the summer break but discovering Hilda’s children alone, and her body in the woodpile, immediately turns the last journey of the season into a nightmare. She quickly discovers that while the dead may have secrets it’s the secrets of the living that can be deadly, especially when uncovering them puts her life on the line.
Book #4– Murder at the Mill– There’s murder on the Darling River when a flour mill explodes and Emma’s friend is a suspect. Lies and hidden agendas aren’t the only problems as she tries to unravel the truth. Are she, and her friends back home, finally free from the curse of that old promise? And with Daniel failing to collect her for another season on the river, has he finally tired of her company on the PS Mary B?
Complete Murray Valley Mystery series
