Margarite St John: 7 books

Thelma Cox is obsessed with finding the man who raped, strangled, and murdered her daughter in Chicago fourteen years earlier. With the help of an ex-CIA investigator and the Fort Wayne Police, she comes to suspect Clay Teeter, a prominent real estate lawyer and secret swinger who used to work for...

Lexie Royce, Fort Wayne’s richest and most famous woman, has a secret stalker who leaves sappy poems about her in public places. Lexie is more worried about losing her baby weight and keeping the sexy new nanny from seducing her husband than identifying a cowardly admirer. Then the murders...

At 33, Alexandra “Lexie” Royce is beautiful, smart, newly divorced, and very, very rich.  She and her half-brother, Rolland, are the owners of Summit City Metals and Scrapyard, a fourth-generation family business which has been losing steam ever since the sudden death of their father four...

At 28, Lily Anderson, a pretty, self-assured career woman living in Fort Wayne, Indiana, is facing problems in the law firm where she’s the manager. She’s also sick of living so far from her only sister. She wants a better work environment, warmer weather, and marriage before she turns...

When the newly married Lexie Royce and Steve Wright (the principals in Murder for Old Times’ Sake) learn that Antoinette “Tawny” Delamarter died of poison at Scuttlebutt’s, a gentlemen’s club in Fort Wayne, they merely note it in passing.  After all, Tawny -- the skank of the Carroll...

At 36, Poppy Beaudry McBride is the beleaguered wife of a prominent Florida politician. In the 1989 Miss South Carolina contest, she finished first runner-up to Molly Applegate Standardt, now an investigative journalist for The Naples Daily News. Poppy and her husband, U.S Rep. Ferrin McBride (R),...

The much-married Madeleine Harrod is a beautiful and talented woman obsessed with death. She sees things no one else sees. As one of the best forensic artists in the country, she visualizes the face of an unidentified skull before anyone else can. She owns Appledorn Exploratorium, which makes spooky...