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A Desperate Mother Searches for Her Child Step into True Colors -- a new series of Historical Stories of Romance and American Crime Widowed in Memphis during 1932, Cecile Dowd is struggling to provide for her three-year-old daughter. Unwittingly trusting a neighbor puts little Millie Mae into the clutches of Georgia Tann, corrupt Memphis Tennessee Children's Home Society director suspected of the disappearance of hundreds of children. With the help...
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Death plagues the Robinson family When Harriet Peters came to Boston four years ago, the Robinson family took her in like one of their own, and Harriet became closer to Lizzie Robinson than her own siblings. Now Lizzie is deathly sick, failing quickly just like several others in her family have done over the past few years. How can so many in one family die from the same mysterious illness? Harriet doesn’t have answers, but she is determined to...
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A Widow's Ad for a Husband Leads to Mysterious Disappearances
In 1907, shy but loyal Ingrid Storset has traveled from Norway to support her grieving sister, Belle Gunness, who owns a farm in LaPorte, Indiana. Well-to-do widow Belle, who has lost two husbands and several children, provides Ingrid with enough money to start a small business.
But Ingrid is confused by the string of men Belle claims to be interviewing for her next husband. When Nils...
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A Shadowy Figure Swings a Dangerous Club
Denver of 1900 is still a perilous place to be following the silver crash of 1893. And of out of the dark comes a shadow intent on harming women.
Ambitious young Denver newspaper reporter Polly Blythe is searching for the big story that's going to launch her career. On Friday evening, August 24, 1900, she gets her break when two women are cracked over the head within a two-minute
walk of each other. But...
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