When I first started writing
my mystery series, I decided to set the books in the fictional town of Oak
Grove, somewhere north of Pittsburgh, PA. Having grown up in a similar town, it
was easy to picture my main character, Harmony Duprie, having an interest in
the architecture of the town. And since she lives in a third-story apartment of
a Victorian style house, it was a short leap to imagine her getting involved in
remodeling an old home.
There are plenty of houses
scattered throughout northwestern Pennsylvania that need a little help. Or, in
some cases, a lot of help. And some have already been remodeled with various
levels of success.
But Harmony's goal is to
keep the style of the houses she fixes up intact while bringing them up to more
modern standards for electricity and appliances. And since she does Internet
research for a living, she wants to make sure that it's easy to jump on the web
no matter what room of the house she is in! And she does this in-between her various adventures.
She's not alone in her quest
to bring old houses back to their original glory; she has friends to help her
out. Friends who know where to find period hardware and have the tools to
re-create spindles for staircases and missing bits of gingerbread. Friends who
help her out of the situations she finds herself involved in.
Harmony develops personal
connections to the houses she works on, imaging their voices speaking to her.
Despite this, she knows she'll give them up and sell them when she is done with
them. As she says, they deserve to have a happy family living in them, filling
their rooms with laughter. So as hard as it is, she knows that they will have
to be sold, since she is a single woman with no children of her own.
Her Ladyship's Ring
Harmony Duprie is back, and so is trouble in Oak
Grove.
When a man is murdered in
the backyard of the old Victorian house she is remodeling, Harmony is determined
to locate his next-of-kin so he can be put to rest properly. But with her
ex-boyfriend Jake out of prison, back in town and one of the suspects in the
murder, she takes on the challenge of solving the crime.
With Eli, her current love
interest, in Florida and Jake close by, old emotions come back to haunt her.
Can Harmony clear Jake's name and solve the mystery of her own heart?
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2 comments:
Thanks for letting me drop by today!
Lovely photos. Reminds me of the area in Northern Vermont where I went to college!
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