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Murder at the Festival is a P J Barnes (series) Mystery. A local author is murdered at the Virginia Highlands Festival. The suspect Jo Bowling was observed in a heated discussion with the author just hours before he was killed.

Polly Jean Davis, born to a rural Appalachian farm family, marries her high school sweetheart, Doug Barnes, after graduation, ending her dream of attending the University of Virginia. After enduring twelve years of marriage to an unfaithful husband, she seizes an opportunity to reclaim her dream and redefine her life. Upon arrival in Charlottesville, hoping to earn money to help pay for college, she takes a job working with Rick Beeson, a Private Investigator. Polly soon finds herself engulfed in the underworld of drug dealers, assassins and corporate greed. More than once Polly longs for the shelter and the safety of her Appalachian Mountain home - but the life she has found and the love of a kind and gentle man are stronger than the pull of her mountain roots.

Secrets can destroy families and individuals. Hidden in the past of Dolores de Los Rios is a secret which, though unknown to her, has affected her life since the day she was born. Share her sadness, her happiness, her struggles and her triumphs. Read the first two chapters here. You won't be able to stop.

Successful writer Phil Martin wakes up one Monday morning not knowing who or where he is - ""...in another man's world, in another man's house, wearing another man's beige silk pajamas..."" Trying to make sense of what's happening, he becomes bombarded with non-stop phone calls from people he doesn't recognize, demanding answers to questions - when he has none. In a quest for his identity he travels to the remote reaches of Appalachia retracing the path of his birth family, In Search of Himself.