MWA Announces the 2022 Edgar Award Nominations: SIMON & SCHUSTER MARY HIGGINS CLARK AWARD Nominee for Ruby Red Herring by Tracy Gardner published by Crooked Lane Books and from NYPL voted the Best 100 book of 2021
Ruby Red Herring: An Avery Ayers Antique Mystery —Crooked Lane Books And Ruby Red Herring: An Avery Ayers Antique Mystery https://www.harlequin.com/shop/books/9781335589248_ruby-red-herring.html The first in a new series is an Avery Ayers Antique Mystery series debut, perfect for fans of Ellery Adams and Jane K. Cleland, an antiques appraiser hunts a missing gem while probing her parents' deaths. Avery Ayers takes over the family business, Antiquities & Artifacts Appraised, from the home office in Lilac Grove and a branch in Manhattan. Now living back at home with her younger sister Tilly and their newly moved-in, eccentric Aunt Midge and her Afghan hound, Avery's life is filled with jewels, tapestries, paintings, and rare finds. But their world is rocked when Avery learns that the theft of a priceless ruby may be connected to her parents' demise. Peril at Pennington Manor: An Avery Ayers Antique Mystery
Publishing June 7,, 2022—Crooked Lane Books Perfect for fans of Jane K. Cleland and Ellery Adams, the second volume in Tracy Gardner’s antiques-themed mystery series finds appraiser Avery Ayers sleuthing a murder in a castle. Thanks to Aunt Midge’s unlikely friendship with Nicholas Pennington, the Duke of Valle Charme, Avery Ayers and her associates at Antiques and Artifacts Appraised head off to their most glamorous assignment yet—cataloguing and appraising the contents of a castle-like mansion on the Hudson River. But regal splendor becomes a backdrop to mayhem when the precious Viktor Petrova timepiece disappears—and housekeeper Suzanne Vick plummets from a parapet to her death. |
Tracy Gardner is a Metro Detroit native who lives in a small, rural community. When not writing fiction or traveling the roads in scrubs as a visiting nurse, Tracy enjoys baking up a storm, playing with her fun family and menagerie of rescue pets, and writing her blog, Made in Michigan, an exciting insider's look at Michigan's creative community, highlighting local authors and artists.
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