Virginia Davies, a graduate student in history is embroiled in an unclassic adventure involving a hoard of gold, thieves and a ring of smugglers in a plot that almost costs Virginia and her friends their lives. Laguna Treasure begins in 1933 in a watery cave in the coastal mountains of Southern California. Sixty plus years later, an antique dealer friend of Virginias, Abbey McQueen, provides a clue that launches Virginia on a perilous adventure. Virginia finds her life is placed in jeopardy by a group of thieves interested in gaining her treasure at any cost. People she contacts keep turning up dead. She and Dr. Andy Clark, her boyfriend and Professor of Engineering, plunge headlong into a vicious, no-holds-bared, seemingly non-ending struggle to what could be a one way journey to survive.

Laguna Treasure: A Virginia Davies Mystery

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Ciambrone, David

Mystery

iUniverse

Pelican Cove: A Virginia Davies Mystery

Virginia Davies, curator at the Southbrook Museum, is leaving on vacation to the romantic seaside town of Pelican Cove with her boyfriend, Dr. Andy Clark, when her boss innocently asks her to make it a well paid, working vacation. The old director was murdered trying to mount an exhibit about a ship that sunk off the coast years before, touching a nerve in someone bent on keeping a secret that went down with the ship. Virginia stumbles upon the secret and deeper intrigue involving smuggling, drugs, deceit and murder by local, prominent citizens. She leads her friends, US Marshals, the Coast Guard and the murderers on a wild adventure to the cutting conclusion.

Virginia Davies has a lot going on in her life - a new marriage, new city, new job, a new play - and murder! She married her longtime boyfriend Dr. Andy Clark, then they moved from Orange County, California to Georgetown, Texas, where she took a job as a curator at the prestigious San Gabriel Museum. Her main source of pride, her manuscript - Murder as a Community Project - was optioned for production as a play. Unfortunately, Virginia's propensity for finding trouble followed her from the west coast - at the first Georgetown Community Theater rehearsal she discovered one of the actors, a reporter for an area newspaper, with a knife stuck in his chest, and it's not a prop. Dragged into the action-packed mystery by strange photographs and actors' antics, Virginia's husband is kidnapped to stop her from nosing around. Snooping around in her usual unorthodox manner, while people keep trying to kill her, she manages to rummage through trouble in Georgetown, Austin, and Williamson County, Texas - while befriending the police and the Mafia.

Left at Georgetown

L & L Dreamspell

Dangerous Threads

Virginia Davies-Clark must find a quilt missing for seventy years. An award-winning quilt hiding an amazing secret. Virginia Davies-Clark is called back into the service of the Smithsonian Central Security Service and the Department of Defense along with her husband Andy and her friend Donna to locate a quilt. This isn't just any quilt. At the 1933 Century of Progress in Chicago, Sears Roebuck Company sponsored a quilt contest. The Grand Prize was to be $1,000.00. The quilt that won the prize was a pieced called "The Unknown Star" by the maker, Margaret Rogers Caden of Kentucky. The quilt itself was presented to the President's wife, Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt. Sometime during FDR's presidency the quilt disappeared and has not been seen for almost seventy years. Virginia questions why the DOD is interested in an old quilt. As she, Andy and Donna start their quest, they find they are not the only ones searching for the quilt and they are attacked by various organizations bent on stopping her. Their adversary list grows as they try to accomplish an impossible assignment. Virginia makes some strange alliances across the country to take down the organizations trying to stop her. Using her wits, cunning, intellect, and guts, she, Andy and Donna attempt to locate the quilt and use any means she can to undermine a bold strategy by her adversaries trying to kill her and her little group. Her conniving, devious and messy strategy brings the villains to an explosive end.

Progressive Rising Phoenix Press, LLC

The effective means for an undiscovered, perfect murder is illusive. The bottomless fear of discovery has kept most of us from the real life dastardly deed. But what about authors who need to craft a believable plot? Those who kill "fictionally" will find this book a valuable resource. A book that covers all types of poisons would be the size of an encyclopedia, and is not needed by writers' in search of a believable method for their criminal to dispatch their victim. This handbook will discuss poisons a "normal" person could get with little or no trouble, and if done right will leave little or no trace back to the murderer. Have fun planning your perfect fictional murder by poison.

Poisons: The Handbook for Writers

Reference

Writing, Research & Publishing Guides

White Bird Publications

Virginia Davies, who is a cross between a young Jessica Fletcher and Indiana Jones, has a lot going on in her life - a new marriage, a new city, a new job, a new play. And murder. After marrying longtime boyfriend Dr. Andy Clark, Virginia moves with him from Orange County, California, to Georgetown, Texas. She takes a job as curator at the prestigious San Gabriel Museum; but her main source of pride is that her manuscript, "Murder as a Community Project" has been optioned for production as a play. Unfortunately, Virginia's propensity for finding trouble has followed her from the West Coast. At the first Georgetown Community Theatre rehearsal she attends, she discovers one of the actors, a reporter for an area newspaper, with a knife stuck in his chest - and it's not a prop. Virginia is dragged into the action packed mystery by some strange photographs and the antics of a few of the actors. The kidnapping of her husband to keep her from nosing around has the reverse affect. She wants revenge and the murderer. Snooping around in her usual unorthodox manner she manages to rummage through trouble in Georgetown, Austin and Williamson County, Texas, while people keep trying to kill her. In her misadventure she needs to befriend not just the police but the Mafia as well. The cops are doing a poor job of trying to protect her while the Mafia is keeping her alive and well. Using her wits, cunning and guts, she discovers who kidnapped her husband, who the murderer is and brings down a local crime syndicate trying to get a foothold in Central Texas.

Left At Georgetown

Someone tried to kill a friend of Virginia Davies Clark in Virginia's museum. The killers are after the gold, a mysterious Civil War era quilt, jade jaguar, and a ceremonial jade dagger her friend just inherited. More murders take place because of the old quilt and the inheritance. The list of suspects includes a university professor and a few relatives of Virginia's friend. They all look suspicious and innocent at the same time. Tests on the gold indicate it came from Central America. Virginia's examination of the quilt reveals it was made in the mid-1800s in Texas. It holds a hidden map to a Mayan golden temple in an unexplored area of jungle in southern Mexico and northern Guatemala. It is a fabled Mayan temple of gold and the city of gold-El Dorado. With the backing of the police and the Smithsonian Central Security Service, Virginia and her colleague and archaeologist, Dr. Terry Sorenson, using photographs of the quilt blocks and the binding as maps, head for the jungles of Mexico and Guatemala in search of the fabled Mayan temple and city of gold. When Virginia and Terry tromp through the jungle to locate the source of the Confederate gold supply and the fabled Mayan temple of gold, they must outsmart a corrupt undercover U.S. DEA agent, face a dangerous and violent drug lord, handle a very real Mayan curse, and fight unfriendly natives all of whom want them dead. The question is, using the hidden map in the quilt, can they find the mysterious temple and city of gold, and capture the murderer, before getting themselves killed.

Trail of Threads

Nestled on the San Gabriel River in Central Texas’ Hill Country, Georgetown is a small town where things are normally pretty quiet. That is, until Adam Thomas, a retired scientist and now writer of a newspaper column for women under the name Aunt Kay, inherits a Confederate solder’s journal and a new murder. Adam and his girlfriend Kathy find themselves the center of dark doings, strange people and racing headlong into a fast paced, high stakes adventure to untangle a murderous puzzle, a series of macabre organizations and locate the centuries old and highly unusual, San Gabriel Secret.

San Gabiel's Secret (1)

Thrillers & Suspense

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Laguna Treasure: A Virginia Davies Mystery

Pelican Cove: A Virginia Davies Mystery

Pelican Cove: A Virginia Davies Mystery

Left at Georgetown

Dangerous Threads

Dangerous Threads

Poisons: The Handbook for Writers

Left At Georgetown

Trail of Threads

San Gabiel's Secret (1)