As the town prepares for the twenty-fifth reunion of Mellingham High School, police chief Joe Silva discovers that some members of the Class of '69 are more interested in revenge, violence, and murder. Reprint.

Friends and Enemies: A Mellingham Mystery

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Oleksiw, Susan

Mystery

Worldwide Library

Paperback mystery book: A Murderous Innocence by Susan Oleksiw. A Joe Silva Mystery. Setting is small-town Massachusetts.

A Murderous Innocence

Worldwide

Trouble befalls two American tourists staying at the cozy seaside Hotel Delite in southern India.  Helping her aunt Meena run the place, photographer and gallery owner Anita Ray is drawn into the mystery.  The victims, both women, were nurses, one of whom admitted to smuggling black market medical supplies across the border to those in need.  Now one of them is dead, the other in a hospital.  Aunt Meena is teetering on hysteria and Anita needs answers.Of all the exotic sights and sounds of the city, few are as captivating as the Balabhadrakali Temple and its alluring statue of the goddess Kali.  But tourism had little to do with the tragedy---something else is going on.  Pushing aside her fear of poking into the dangerous world of illegal trade, Anita discovers the motive for murder was far more personal.  And one of her own photographs may hold the key to the killer's identity.

Under the Eye of Kali (An Anita Ray Mystery) by Susan Oleksiw (2011-08-01)

Gwen McDuffy has returned to Mellingham with her two children, but something is haunting her. Distracted by her own worries, she barely notices the tension at the Arbella Society, where George Frome, determined to bring questionable practices to the attention of the board of directors, is systematically offending everyone he encounters. Catherine Rocklynd, wealthy patron, is on edge, and refuses to confide in her nephew, Edwin Bennett. Kelly Kuhn, art dealer and collector, is sinking into debt trying to woo customers like Annalee Windolow. Quiet, picturesque Mellingham cannot erase the secrets and sorrows of a lifetime, so its residents do their best to hide them behind facades of philanthropy and family. But when a secretary discovers a dead body in the attic of Arbella House, the staff and volunteers of the historical society are doubly threatened.Chief of Police Joe Silva knows he'll uncover some painful secrets when he begins investigating the murder, but he must prepare himself for personal disappointment as the murder investigation moves closer to Gwen McDuffy. Richly evocative in setting, with finely drawn characters and an absorbing plot, Family Album asks meaningful questions about family and identity, and the need to belong.

Family Album: A Mellingham Mystery

iUniverse, Inc.

Preston Mattson has spent his career teaching in an out of the way school, never having to confront his failures until adult student Hank Vinnio shoulders his way onto campus, disrupting classes and everything else with his sly and cynical style. Mattson and a lot of others are relieved when Vinnio is found dead-until Chief of Police Joe Silva begins investigating. Soon the college doesn't feel very safe, and both teachers and students begin to worry about what Silva is finding out. Joe Silva brings his astute and likable style to another murder in Mellingham, pulling aside complacency and shame as he zeroes in on a murderer.

Double Take: A Mellingham Mystery

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

An absorbing investigation into murder and mores in a New England coastal village, featuring attractive and intuitive Chief of Police Joe Silva.

Murder in Mellingham

iUniverse

Socially prominent and manipulative Beth O'Donnell visits her brother in the small Massachusetts village of Mellingham and is promptly murdered, and Police Chief Joe Silva has too many suspects

Charles Scribner`s Sons

When a student at Massasoit College is murdered, Mellingham's chief of police Joe Silva investigates and discovers some surprising secrets about the local art world and small-town life.

United States

Scribner

Gwen McDuffy, a woman with a secret, panics when she realizes someone has found her out and no longer enjoys her work at Arbella Historical Society--where there are mysterious problems including disappearing paintings and a body in the attic

A Reader's Guide to the Classic British Mystery

London: Blandford

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Friends and Enemies: A Mellingham Mystery

A Murderous Innocence

Under the Eye of Kali (An Anita Ray Mystery) by Susan Oleksiw (2011-08-01)

Family Album: A Mellingham Mystery

Double Take: A Mellingham Mystery

Murder in Mellingham

Murder in Mellingham

Double Take: A Mellingham Mystery

Family Album: A Mellingham Mystery

A Reader's Guide to the Classic British Mystery