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From the
book jacket:
Annie Darling discovers the secret of
the Franklin house, but Death Walked In . . .
Max
Darling hasn't been interested in crime since his brush with a
seductive young woman put him in danger of losing his freedom. He even
refuses to talk to a woman who calls for help and says she is afraid.
The caller leaves word she's hidden something in the antebellum house
Max and his wife, Annie, are restoring. When Annie finds out, she
hurries to the woman's home, only to discover her shot. Annie hears her
final whisper as she holds the dying woman's hand.
Evidence
links the dead woman to a nearby home, where a fortune in
gold coins has gone missing. The gold coins, rare Double Eagles, were
stolen from a house filled with visiting family members,
twentysomethings hungry for money and several with secrets they must
keep. Is one of them willing to kill for a fortune in coins? Or is it
the dead woman's high school dropout son? Max is there when the police
arrest the son, but the boy's shock upon learning of his mother's death
convinces Max of his innocence. Max and Annie plunge wholeheartedly
into the investigation.
But are
the coins hidden in Annie and Max's Franklin house? The
intruder who shoots at Max seems to think so. And who walks in when
Annie discovers the secret of that house?
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