Paco LeSoto, a dapper retired detective, and Molly Mesta, a witty housekeeper/cook, team up as an endearing pair of sleuths. They encounter murder and mayhem among the residents of Black Rain Corners, a quaint Maryland town on the Chesapeake Bay. When a million-dollar painting and a jeweled antique key suddenly disappear from Marche House mansion, hidden rooms, locked doors, and dead bodies embroil the town's elite Historical Society in sizzling scandal. Trapped in the web of suspicion are a psychoanalyst, an alcoholic gambler, a mob enforcer, an iron-pumping gigolo, and an art dealer from the Orient. Paco and Molly set out to expose the mansion's terrifying secrets.
ROSEMARY, a graduate of Smith College, is a former assistant editor of Harper's, a managing editor of Chemical Times &Trends, and an engineering writer at Westinghouse. She is the author of the much acclaimed Miriam's Gift: A Mother's Blessings--Then and Now. She is also the author of the newly published Miram's World--and Mine. Together with husband Larry they have authored three Paco and Molly murder mysteries: Lox and Cream Cheese, Hot Grudge Sunday, and Boston Scream Pie. With Larry, they authored the much acclaimed Cry Ohana, Adventure and Suspense in Hawaii. She has published articles in The Washington Post, The Baltimore Sun, Washington Parent, Washington Woman, Senior Highlights, Smith Alumnae Quarterly, and elsewhere. She is a member of the National Press Club, Society of Professional Journalists, Sisters in Crime, Mystery Writers of America, and the Maryland Writers' Association.
The Milds divide their time between Severna Park, Maryland and Honolulu,Hawaii, where they have family including two granddaughters. Additional family including two grandsons and a granddaughter--as well as 15 grandhorses--draw them to South Carolina.
