Murder in a Safe Haven

California Central Coast obituary writer Bella Kowalski, a former nun, arrives at the Detroit Airport for a quick stay. She's here to put her late mother's home up for sale and collect important papers from her husband's safe deposit box. The couple hope the documents will remove any suspicion the former DPD detective was linked to the Mafia. When the second person in a month from Mike's past is murdered-this time in front of Bella-she must rethink her plans and the future of her marriage. Several frightening incidents at her family home force Bella to flee to the convent where she took long-ago vows, and she renews a friendship with her former Mother Superior. But even Sister Monica can't protect Bella from forces determined to destroy her.

With little more than an urge to hang out at the beach, write mystery novels and calm a cat experiencing his first car ride, Sue McGinty left Los Angeles June 17, 1994, the same day OJ Simpson took his infamous ride. Unlike OJ, Sue had a destination in mind: the Central Coast hamlet of Los Osos. Not the Cabot Cove of ＂Murder She Wrote,＂ but close. Her California Central Coast mysteries include ＂Murder in Los Lobos,＂ ＂Murder at Cuyamaca Beach,＂ ＂Murder in Mariposa Bay,＂ and ＂Murder in a Safe Haven.＂ Her short fiction has been featured in four Sisters in Crime Central Coast chapter mysteries.