By Liza O’Connor
∞
Troubles & Crimes to be solved
Xavier’s dead great-grandmother wants Vic to solve a
crime
A Despicable Crime
(The Attempted Abduction of Xavier’s Mother)
A Painful Conclusion
The Improvement of Crime Lords
A Gift Returned
BLURB
Family
contacts that Xavier Thorn has long ago hidden from his life suddenly
return. His beloved great-grandmother,
which his father had declared dead when Xavier was six, turns out to be alive
and annoyed that his father is stealing money from her bank account and the
bank won’t stop him.
As matters
escalate from theft to murder to a most despicable crime, Xavier learns more
about his father who has hated him all his life and discovers some good news.
However, first, he must secure his great-grandmother and his mother, since the
connection between the two ladies and Xavier has become known to several Crime
Lords. As the man responsible for keeping all Crime Lords in line, the two
ladies are now in danger of becoming hostages.
It’s a hard
month for Vic. Due to saying too much while teaching the Scotland Yard officers
on how to stop forgeries, Vic believes she has lost Xavier’s love. Also, her
crazy sister Claire burns down the house Claire lives in simply because it
cannot be put into her name. Then she arrives at Xavier and Vic’s house with
the intention of killing them all.
Family can be so
difficult!
Excerpt
Xavier
sat and listened to the old woman, seated on the other side of his desk, drone
on and on. Honestly, he had no idea why she was here. Worse yet, she seemed to
be telling her story backwards, or at least he suspected as much. Every time he
took the effort to listen, she was talking about something that happened
further in the past.
If
she had been a man, he would have tossed her out long before now, but she was
almost the spitting image of his great grandmother whom he had truly loved. Now
that he gave the matter more thought, his great-grandmother often told him
stories in reverse, insisting a person could learn more by going back.
“We all know where we are, but the
past we know is often nothing but nonsense.” She would then give him a hard
glare. “I expect better of you, young man. You are like me. We remember the
truth, not some made up magpie, pretending to be a sparrow.”
Yes,
this woman sounded a great deal like his dead great-grandmother. She also made
statements that truly made no sense.
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Liza O’Connor was raised badly by feral cats,
left the South/Midwest and wandered off to find nicer people on the east coast.
There she worked for the meanest man on Wall Street, while her psychotic
husband tried to kill her three times. (So much for finding nicer people.) Then
one day she declared enough, got a better job, divorced her husband, and fell
in love with her new life where people behaved nicely. But all those bad
behaviors has given her lots of fodder for her humorous books. Please buy these
books, because otherwise, she’ll become grumpy and write troubled novels
instead. They will likely traumatize you.
You have been warned.
The Adventures of Xavier & Vic Sleuth series: (Late
Victorian/Mystery/Romance)
The Troublesome Apprentice — The greatest sleuth in Victorian England
hires a young man who turns out to be a young woman.
The Missing Partner — Opps! The greatest sleuth in Victorian
England goes missing, leaving Vic to rescue him, a suffragette, and about 100
servants. Not to mention an eviscerating cat. Yes, let’s not mention the cat.
A
Right to Love
— A romantic detour for Jacko. Want
to see how amply rewarded Jacko was when he & Vic save an old woman from
Bedlam?
The Mesmerist — The Mesmerist can control people from afar and make them murder for
her. Worse yet, Xavier Thorn has fallen under her spell.
Well Kept Secrets — The problems with secrets is
that they always come to light, no matter how you wish to silence them.
Pack of Trouble — Changes are a part of life,
but these changes almost kill Vic.
The
Darkest Days — Muddled cases make Vic very grumpy.
The CrimeLords’ War — Vic
is almost killed twice as she tries to prevent a CrimeLords’ War, stop a female
Russian spy, and locate Xavier.
Toxic Diamonds — The Queen’s Diamonds have been
stolen, Director Stone of Scotland Yard is missing, and there is a toxic gas
that may kill hundreds of Londoners.
A Despicable Crime — Just when you think Crime Lords cannot
behave worse, they step up their game, and I’m sorry to report that Xavier’s
father caused this debacle.
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