Time and Trouble

Gillian Roberts

Dec 2014 · An Emma Howe and Billie August Mystery Book 1 · Untreed Reads

About this ebook

Marin County is famous for its affluent pleasures and the beauty of its beaches, mountains and redwood forests. In Time and Trouble, a teen-aged runaway, a yellow hearse, an insurance scam, a heart-shaped talisman, a baby’s skeleton in a meadow, and something ugly and odd going on in a Sausalito houseboat all converge there to provide the first—and nearly last—case for Billie August, the new hire of seasoned P.I. Emma Howe.

 

Billie, a single parent with no practical job skills, desperately needs the job, and Emma, whose personality has caused most of her employees to head for the hills, hires the sure-to-fail inexperienced young woman out of her own desperation. An unlikely, antagonistic pair, both find out that things are seldom as they seem, and appearances—in and out of crime and investigation—can be dangerously deceiving.

About the author

Gillian Roberts is an associate professor in North American Cultural Studies at the University of Nottingham. She is co-investigator of the Leverhulme Trust--funded Culture and the Canada--US Border international research network. She recently completed a monograph on cultural representations of the Canada--US border.