1st Short Story in the Sailing with Mystery anthology
featuring Isabella Newcombe Tarrant from the Into Death series.
Aboard the Passenger Ship Nomadic
A short story mystery featuring Isabella Newcombe Tarrant from the Into Death series.
Blackmail threatens a young bride when her secret diary is stolen. Her marriage of convenience is threatened if the contents are revealed to her new husband and his autocratic mother.
Can Isabella recover the diary before the bride loses all hope?
Sailing With Mystery ~
Travel presents opportunities to meet new friends and see new places. Isabella also encounters puzzling crimes and dangerous intrigue as she sails from England to India.
The next short story is “Purple Poison”.
Link for Amazon. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C1YG2J6Q
Link to Wide Distribution ~ Books2Read https://books2read.com/u/3yWAAl
In discussing with the covers with Kim, the design project manager at Deranged Doctor Design, we decided to avoid the problem with so few accurate images from 1921. Instead, we chose to emphasize the protagonist Isabella’s art with five watercolor images. Finding similar images became the next design challenge. We hope that the ones we have picked not only represent Isabella’s venture into watercolors but also the atmosphere and settings for the story.
The “Amber Dreams” cover represents the rocky coasts that Isabella would have seen along the French and Spanish coastlines.
The primary cover harks to Isabella standing to one side of the image. The ocean and the railing of the ship evoke where she is while the tumultuous sky echoes the mysteries she encounters while aboard the passenger ship.
Enjoy!
The Into Death series:
Digging into Death ~ Love and murder on an archaeological dig. Has the love of her life beguiled Isabella straight into death?
Christmas with Death ~ An English country manor offers Christmas merriment, miracles, and murder. Will Isabella be the next victim?
Portrait with Death ~ When murder paints with blood, will Isabella and her new friend Flick discover that the murderer? Or will the murderer stop them?
View M.A. Lee’s page on this site (click the link above) for more information about the Into Death series and to find links to the three novels and a bundle of the first three novels.