Revenge by Ruby

Emma Goldsmith Mysteries #3

by Jenny Andersen

She loved rubies more than life… even her own.Gemologist Emma Goldsmith is thrilled to be invited to the city’s most prestigious charity function—until she stumbles across the body of a woman murdered moments before in the ladies’ room.A woman who had just publicly accused Emma of selling fake stones.Ruby Chantal, wife of one of Emma’s best customers, is the quintessential woman with a thousand enemies. She masquerades as a generous, loving philanthropist, but those close to her know that under the kind exterior lies a ruby-obsessed narcissist. Was she killed by a fair-weather friend who envied her jewels? By her husband, who was being run into bankruptcy by her thirst for rubies? By Emma—or worse, by Tony, in his daughter’s defense?Emma knows she and her father are innocent, but how can the police identify the murderer when so many in the genteel world of charity money hated Ruby enough to kill her?

232 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 17, 2021

About the author

Writing romance was a natural for Jenny Andersen, given her lifelong fascination with words. (And men.) Like most writers, she has had a number of weird jobs and strange experiences that sometimes mutate and show up in her stories. Jenny has an M.A. in Writing Popular Fiction from Seton Hill University in Pennsylvania; the master's thesis turned into her first book, Loving Luke, for The Wild Rose Press.

Reviews

[Margery · Rating 5 out of 5]

love reading about rubies. my favorite gem and what a page turner this tale is