Valentine's Day is approaching in northern California's Lighthouse Cove, the charming seaside town of Victorian homes where Shannon Hammer runs her own construction and restoration business. When Shannon's elderly neighbor Jesse Hennessey doesn't make his daily appearance in the local diner, she goes next door to check on him, only to discover him dead on his couch, the victim of an apparent heart attack. But his house has been ransacked; clearly, someone was looking for something. Shannon scoffs at the suggestion it could be the priceless necklace he claimed to have retrieved from a sunken Spanish galleon. Jesse was always telling tall tales Shannon never believed--that he had a beautiful girlfriend, for example, and that he trained the first team of modern day Navy SEALS. But Jesse's death is officially declared a homicide. And when charming Althea Tannis shows up at the funeral, claiming to have been Jesse's lover, and pawnshop owner "Cuckoo" Clemens says Jesse showed him the... Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге THIS OLD HOMICIDE (CARLISLE, KATE)