Charley Marsh

An entertaining start to a fresh new mystery series.Harriet Monroe needs to get away from her fianc -turned-jailer. Taking her dream job as Public Relations Director for the exclusive Island Resort seems like the perfect answer to her problem, but things go horribly wrong when Harriet discovers a dead body only hours after her arrival on the beautiful island.Worse luck, the dead man turns out to be her ex. The news media loves it. Harriet, not so much. Not even settled into her office and she's already bringing bad PR to the resort.Not an ideal way to start a new job. Trying to impress her new boss while suspected of murder makes settling in to the job next to impossible. Harriet's only option? Find out who killed her ex. And while she's at it, discover who is stalking her and why.

Harriet Monroe's dream job as public relations director for the exclusive Island Resort should be a piece of cake. After all, the resort has everything the well-heeled require for a top of the line vacation. If it wasn't for those bodies that keep popping up . . .When the high profile Pelookie family books a week long retreat at the resort, Harriet works extra hard to give them what they want. This includes four busts of the family leaders carved in ice for a special unveiling at the week's final family event.Exhausted from keeping everyone happy, Harriet can't wait for the big event to be over and done with-until she checks on the ice sculptures and discovers that one has been defaced. Worse, she finds a frozen body locked in the kitchen's industrial freezer with the sculptures.Against her better judgement, Harriet gets drawn into the Pelookie family's darkest secrets-and learns that that is a very dangerous place to be.

Amateur sleuth Harriet Monroe's new job as PR director for the exclusive Island Resort is a dream come true. Except for the dead bodies that keep turning up.Working in public relations means Harriet needs to experience everything the resort has to offer. She takes her closest friend with her to check out the resort's amazing spa-only to have a woman collapse and die at their feet before they even make it past the reception area.According to the granddaughter, the dead woman had no known enemies. So who wanted her dead? Harriet needs to help the island's security director find the answer before word of the murder gets picked up by the ever-hungry news media. News of another murder would destroy the newly opened resort's reputation. When a wealthy woman dies unexpectedly the cops always look at who will benefit. The dependent granddaughter? The granddaughter's struggling boyfriend? Another guest? The more answers they find, the more questions they have-until nothing makes any sense. Who killed Alice Haggedorn and why?

Curiosity changed the course of mankind.Pandora was the first mortal woman and the first bride. Zeus gave Pandora a storage jar for a wedding gift which she of course opened. Who wouldn't? It was a wedding gift, for crying out loud. The evil spirits trapped inside the jar were freed and have wreaked havoc on mankind ever since.Fast forward to today . . .Pandora Jones lives in a modern stone castle stuffed to the roofline with handmade boxes filled with the worries and troubles she collects each night. Trying to atone for her ancestress' costly mistake leaves no room for friendship, let alone romance.Head God Zeus sends his handsome eldest son to set things right with Pandora, but neglects to tell him who, what, or why. That would take all the fun out of the game-and everyone knows the Olympic gods love their games.