Rett MacPherson

Torie O'Shea investigates the tangled roots of an ancient family tree. Torie O'Shea- genealogist and amateur sleuth- is having a killer of a day. The town gossip spreads the word that her sweet wheelchair-bound mother is having an affair-with the sheriff! Then quiet Marie Dijon is found dead at the foot of her basement stairs. Did she fall? Was she pushed? All Torie knows is that Marie had a family tree with royal roots completely foreign to a folksy...

While out birding, someone starts shooting at genealogist Torie O'Shea and her partner. Running for her life, Torie trips over an antique trunk containing a dead body. On the heels of this discovery, a visitor to Torie's textile museum says he has proof that songs being sung by famous country music singers were originally written by Torie's grandfather. In the process of looking into both incidents, Torie unearths well-hidden family secrets.

In Rett MacPherson's charming cozy mysteries, genealogist Torie O'Shea always seems to be right in the middle of it all in the goings-on in New Kassel, Missouri. When a drought hits the tiny river town and the depth of the mighty Mississippi lowers, Torie is one of the first on the scene to see what the water has revealed: the decades-old wreckage of a riverboat. Soon, the rumors that surrounded its sinking have resurfaced as well and are swirling...

Learning that her mentor and boss, Sylvia, has passed away at the age of 102, Missouri mother and genealogist Tori O'Shea discovers a cryptic postcard from the 1920s among Sylvia's possessions and begins to fear that the elderly woman's death may not have been natural.

Genealogist Victory O'Shea of New Kassel, Missouri, is hired by Norah Zumwalt, a local antique dealer, to draw a family tree. Since her client's father never returned from World War II, Victory checks military records and discovers the father is living in a nearby town. She informs Norah who is promptly murdered. A first novel.