Henry Carter Hull

Daisy Phillips, who is tired of being treated like an old lady, finds a watch that once belonged to her first love, an American soldier stationed in England during World War II, and is joined by her cousin in a search for the man in New York City to return his watch and get a glimpse of what her life could have been.

Still suffering effects of a near fatal attack, David Hunter has returned to the Body Farm in Tennessee, the world-famous facility where he learned his trade as a forensic anthropologist, desperate to prove that he's still up to the task. But while there a grisly discovery is made in a holiday cabin in the hills--a body, bound and tortured, decomposed beyond recognition. Fingerprints found at the scene seem to identify the killer, but it soon becomes...

"Hard times send a pair of aristocratic English siblings to Prohibition era-Chicago where a bride, gangsters, and trouble await. It's almost too ghastly to say, darlings, but Blotto and la famille are facing... call it an embarrassment of no riches. No, I wouldn't have imagined it either, but this is the 1920s, famed for financial reversals. At any rate, things are so dire that the Dowager Duchess -- oh she's a tiger, an absolute tiger! -- is packing...