<p><B>An amateur sleuth attracts the right clients, the wrong boyfriends&#8212;and a kinky killer&#8212;in this cozy mystery by <I>New York Times</I>&#8211;bestselling author Eileen Goudge.</B><BR /> <BR /> After wrecking her real estate career in a booze-fueled blowout, Cypress Bay property manager and recovering alcoholic Tish Ballard thought she had put her past behind her. But when she opens an old trunk, a bequest from an anonymous benefactor, she finds it filled with bones and roses.<BR /> <BR /> Suddenly Tish is plunged into a murder case that dates back to her childhood. Pitted against her high school crush, homicide detective Spence Breedlove, she finds herself in jeopardy&#8212;in more ways than one.<BR /> <BR /> Can Tish unmask a killer before the man who broke her heart puts her behind bars or, worse, she becomes a corpse herself?<BR /> <BR /> Author Nora Roberts raves that Eileen Goudge "writes like a house on fire"&#8212;and with <I>Bones and Roses</I>, the first book in the Cypress Bay Mysteries, the <I>New York Times&#8211;</I>bestselling author of <I>Garden of Lies</I> delivers a suspenseful plot, memorable characters, and delectable touches of romance.<BR /> <BR /><I>Bones and Roses</I><I>is the 1st book in the Cypress Bay Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.</I><BR /> <BR />

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