To celebrate the impending release of Book #1 in the Riley Russell Mystery Series (less than a week away!), today I’m offering a Secrets & Lies excerpt which gives you a glimpse into Riley’s world…and how everything’s about to change. Let me know in the comments what you think.

I’d spent the week battling lawyers, real estate agents, and the family of an apparently senile ninety-two-year-old woman who, so far, was refusing to vacate the house she had sold me. If Chris Fiorelli thought he was go...