When an old friend is murdered, Claire and her husband search for the killer Ever since she got married, Claire Breslinsky has dreamed of living in the tree-lined Queens neighborhood where she grew up. But her husband is a cop, and cops aren't allowed to live in the precincts they police. When Johnny's transfer request finally comes through, Claire sets her sights on a beautiful, shabby old Victorian mansion. She is about to tour the house when she hears a half-forgotten voice: that of her old friend Tree, who lives across the street from the one Claire wants to buy. They hug, exchange numbers, and promise to see each other more often. They won't. Tree will be dead by morning. A talented photographer with a Buddhist sense of cosmic justice, Claire can't help but suspect Tree's oddly cheerful husband of doing her in. With Johnny's help, she digs into the bizarre murder and finds that strange things have been happening lately on the shady side streets of...

When photographer Claire Breslinsky's Irish aunt dies in a fire, she sets off to Ireland for the funeral. She tries not to think of the man with whom she almost had an affair years ago who still lives in Cork county. However, on the day that Claire is leaving, two things happen. She discovers that her husband is having an affair. Then her mother reveals that on a visit to Ireland seventeen years ago, her sister delivered an unwanted child name Jenny Rose. In this radiant, mysterious tale by Mary Anne Kelly, Claire encounters a lively assortment of eccentric, bickering Irish relatives and a shot, if she dares, at a life which stems from a dream.

After five extraordinarily moving mysteries, Mary Anne Kelly turns to a touching and charming novel filled with true-to-life characters and deep emotion.At the start, Claire Breslinsky is in Munich working as a model. She rents a room in a large apartment and meets a series of magical people—-or so they seem to her. Isolde, her landlady and sister model, introduces her to a number of people, including Germany's leading movie star, a noted film photographer, a doctor whose popularity with the opposite sex matches his medical skills, and many more. It's a dream for Claire, who fled her home in Queens because of its constant reminders of her cop brother's death. At a wine-soaked dinner party in Isolde's flat, it is noisily agreed that the odd assortment of friends will drive a string of caravans to India, taking photographs and filming along the way for a documentary that will eventually pay for the trip. And so the trek begins—during which Claire...

Home for the first time in a decade, a photographer is sucked into a murder investigationClaire Breslinsky dozes in the hammock on the front porch of her family home in Queens and hardly glances up when a car drives by. Ten years ago, she lost her brother, a rookie cop who made the mistake of trying to reason with a mugger, and she left home to travel the world. Now she is back, camera in hand. But something is about to throw the whole neighborhood into complete disarray, the Breslinskys included.The body of a young boy is found in the woods, molested, beaten, and murdered. Claire may have seen the killer driving away, and her search for him will put her family directly in the line of fire.

In search of hidden diamonds, Claire returns to the German countryside At the height of World War II, Iris is a young Jewish girl living in Munich. One night, while on a double date, she lets herself get talked into staying out far past curfew. When she returns home, her family has disappeared. With her uncle Oswald, Iris races for the frontier, pausing at Saint Hildegard's Mill to bury the family diamonds. She escapes to the United States, where she lives quietly for five decades. She will never return to look for her diamonds, but she has a friend who will. Claire Breslinsky lived in Munich during her wild, carefree youth, but those days are long gone. When an old friend invites her to a wedding at Saint Hildegard's Mill, Claire demurs—until Iris tells her about the hidden fortune that awaits her. Claire returns to Munich to attend the wedding, take some pictures, and do some light treasure hunting. But she will end up investigating a murder instead.

Searching for her birth mother, an Irish girl comes to Long Island and stumbles upon a terrible secret One of the first things Claire Breslinsky loved about Johnny was that he never even glanced at her sister. Carmela had always been the glamorous one, but Johnny only had eyes for Claire—the frazzled, world-traveling photographer who solved mysteries in her spare time. Only when their marriage fell apart did Claire learn that Johnny avoided Carmela because they'd had a clandestine fling in high school. When Carmela discovered she was pregnant, she fled to Ireland, where she left her daughter to be raised by her eccentric spinster aunts. Now Johnny is gone forever—but Claire's niece is coming home. Jenny Rose Cashin arrives from Ireland to take a job as an au pair in a fading Long Island resort town, hoping to reconnect with her long-lost mother. But something evil lurks in the quiet beachside residences of Sea Cliff. There is a killer on...