Whisper of Treasure and Lies by award-winning author Trish Esden

 

The ART OF THE DECOY is #3!

 Huge thank you to everyone who purchased THE ART OF THE DECOY during the recent sale. Its current #3 Amazon ranking has me dancing on air. @crookedlanebooks #MysteryNovel #Bookclub #Vermont #VermontAuthor #AntiqueDealer #LibraryReads #BestSelling #Awardwinningauthor

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Radio Interview: Trish Esden on Vermont Viewpoint

 

Here’s a photo of me talking with Bradley Ferland at WDEV yesterday.

If you’d like to listen to the podcast about Scandal Mountain Antiques Mystery series, antiques, writing, and more. My interview starts at 53 minutes. 

The entire podcast is worth a listen, by the way. Listen here. Enjoy!

Whisper of Treasure and Lies--first reviews coming in

 

Whisper of Treasure and Lies, a Scandal Mountain Antiques Mystery

  

Some secrets die with their owners. Others hide in silence, waiting to be set free. 

 

Edie Brown despises the bigwig antique and art dealer Felix Graham. She even suspects he had a hand in her mom being set up for the art forgery charge that sent her to prison. However, when Graham is drugged and robbed after purchasing a valuable antique bottle and a box of local historical items, Edie agrees to hunt down the thieves for him. In payment, she wants one thing: everything Graham knows about her mom being set up—who was involved, how they did it…all the information that could lead to her mom’s freedom. 

 

But the number of possible thieves is as plentiful as the potential motives. Graham’s womanizing ways and slippery business practices barely outweigh the stolen pieces’ rarity and value. As Edie, her uncle Tuck, and enigmatic employee, Kala, dive into the dangerous search, evidence that the crime is tied to the stolen pieces’ history surface. Both the bottle—known as the Glass Widow—and the box of ephemera are related to a tragedy that occurred the night before the grand opening of a Victorian-era hydropathic resort, a shocking fragment of Vermont history that involved a peculiar dowry, concealed murder, and a fire that claimed lives and gutted the lavish resort. 

 

With her mom’s mental health rapidly declining in prison, Edie must fight against the clock to expose the thieves by untangling a mystery with roots that stretch from the Victorian-era to the recent robbery, and perhaps into Edie’s own past as well. 

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