Nora Cooper series
Nora Cooper #1
Nora Cooper is still whirling from her husband’s recent death when she finds out that before being killed in a bank robbery, her husband Joe, Boston’s Chief Detective, secretly sold their newly purchased dream home on Martha’s Vineyard, where the couple had planned to retire.
All her certainties are dashed. Everyone considered Joe a sincere, honest and loving man.
She had been loving him for thirty, happy, years of marriage. She still loves him.
But how could Joe have done this to her? And who was he really?
While so many doubts torment her, Nora finds a mysterious and inexplicable message spelled out with Scrabble letters that no one else could have written. No one else but her husband...
Could those words actually come from the hereafter? Or is she suddenly losing her mind?
Using a strength she didn’t know she had, Nora follows these strange clues to discover the truth about Joe and their life together—and navigates the danger inherent in her new, special gift.
Nora Cooper #2
Susan Bley, a celebrated chef with a promising career, is adjusting to life after a tragic accident leaves her blind. Just as she’s learning to navigate her new reality, her young daughter, Margot, vanishes without a trace from the condo park in Rome, Italy, where they live.
Susan soon discovers that Margot has been kidnapped—perhaps because she saw something she shouldn’t have.
Meanwhile, on Martha's Vineyard, Susan’s close friend Nora Cooper begins experiencing strange dreams and unsettling visions about Susan and the dark web of mystery and violence closing in around her.
With time running out and an ocean between them, Nora and Susan must piece together clues to find Margot before it’s too late.
But the killer knows Margot has seen something dangerous—and they’ll stop at nothing to keep her silent.
Nora Cooper #3
Kelly Scott, a renowned artist known for her copper sculptures, is determined to take control of her life from the moment it shattered so many years ago. That’s why she leaves New York and moves to Martha's Vineyard.
Unaware of Kelly’s troubled past, Nora Cooper, through her real estate agency, sells her the house of her dreams—but also of her nightmares. Because buying back the cottage where Kelly lived the only happy period of her life isn’t enough to erase the memory of being “the little girl in blue,” photographed by every newspaper as she walked her mother’s casket into the church.
What does Kelly remember from the night her mother was murdered at home, while she slept? And what continues to slip through her memory?
After thirty years, the past is far from settled, and Kelly’s return to Martha's Vineyard forces the killer act once again, determined to protect a truth that has stayed buried for far too long.
Nora Cooper #4
Amanda always dreamed of adventure, but her three months in Kenya weren't just a trip—they were her last taste of freedom before embracing a high-powered New York career and settling down with her fiancé.
As her journey nears its end, Amanda feels transformed, ready to return home with a gift for her mother, countless stories, and new plans for the future.
But driving alone through the dark, desolate road to the airport, Amanda senses something is wrong. A pair of headlights looms in her rearview mirror, too close, too persistent. They seem to follow her, never letting up. By the time the lights disappear, Amanda's future is stolen forever.
When Amanda's violent death shatters those she left behind, Nora Cooper—longtime family friend—feels compelled to uncover what really happened. Amanda wasn't just a promising young woman with a bright future; she was like a second daughter to her.
Retracing Amanda's steps in Kenya, Nora discovers a tangled web of betrayal, secrets, and lies that stretches from distant savannahs to the heart of New York's elite. With every revelation, the danger escalates, and the closer Nora gets to the truth, the more she realizes Amanda's story isn't over—and uncovering it may come at a deadly cost.
Ten-year-old Emily Parker thinks the Fourth of July Parade will be the highlight of her summer. Instead, it becomes the day she vanishes.
Upset that her father, famed film producer David Parker, broke his promise to take her to the festivities, Emily sneaks off to watch the fireworks on her own.
But when the police find traces of her blood near the cliffs of Aquinnah, they assume the worst: Emily must have slipped on the rocks and been lost to the sea.
What no one knows is that Emily is still alive—trapped in a grim, musty basement not far from Promises House, the Parker family’s summer estate. As the world mourns her and the search is called off, Emily fights to hold on to hope, knowing her time is running out.
Will she find a way to escape, or will her captor’s secrets remain buried forever?