The Stories We Tell

A recovering technical writer, Liz Milliron is the author of The Laurel Highlands Mysteries and The Homefront Mysteries. Her most recent release, Thicker Than Water, is the sixth in the Laurel Highlands Mysteries series. Short fiction has appeared in multiple anthologies, including the Anthony-award-winning Blood on the Bayou, Mystery Most Historical, Fish Out of Water, A Guppy anthology, and the upcoming Mystery Most International. She is a member of Pennwriters, Sisters in Crime, International Thriller Writers, and The Historical Novel Society. Liz lives in Pittsburgh with her son and a very spoiled retired racer greyhound.

It's December 1942 and Betty Ahern is enjoying her fledgling career as a private detective, investigating everything from missing jewelry to wandering boyfriends. But when Bell Airplane co-worker Emilia Brewka, whose grandmother recently died, wants Betty to prove the death was murder and not natural causes, Betty thinks Emilia's grief has her seeing things that aren't there.After a member of the visiting Polish government in exile is murdered, she learns the grandmother may have contacted him about a secret involving a wealthy Buffalo family-a secret that goes all the way back to the Old Country and the aftermath of the Franco-Prussian war. Suddenly, murder looks more than possible.Betty and her friends travel between Buffalo's working-class¿neighborhoods and the city's high society, determined to unearth the¿secret and¿find justice for Emmie's grandmother. But mixing with the upper class quickly becomes dangerous and potentially deadly-both for Betty's career as a detective and herself.