Santa Fe Mourning

Perfect for fans of Victoria Thompson and Rhys Bowen, brilliant new heroine Maddie Vaughn-Alwin makes her daring debut in the first Runaway Flapper mystery, discovering that speakeasies concealed more than just liquor.When aspiring painter Madeline Vaughn-Alwin's childhood sweetheart dies in the Great War, she leaves her wealthy New York family behind to travel across the country. Headed for California, Maddie instead stops in Santa Fe, New Mexico, believing she's found her new spiritual home. She decides to hire a family, the Anayas, to help her out around her new adobe cottage home, but then the father is found murdered outside a speakeasy.The police are negligent, believing it's just another inebriated Indian finding trouble for himself, so Maddie decides to take on the case herself. But as she dives in, she realizes the Anayas' marriage was not what it seemed and the family was beset with confrontations. And just as she's about to stumble upon the truth, the...