Torie O'Shea mysteries

Torie O'Shea investigates the tangled roots of an ancient family tree. Torie O'Shea- genealogist and amateur sleuth- is having a killer of a day. The town gossip spreads the word that her sweet wheelchair-bound mother is having an affair-with the sheriff! Then quiet Marie Dijon is found dead at the foot of her basement stairs. Did she fall? Was she pushed? All Torie knows is that Marie had a family tree with royal roots completely foreign to a folksy...

Learning that her mentor and boss, Sylvia, has passed away at the age of 102, Missouri mother and genealogist Tori O'Shea discovers a cryptic postcard from the 1920s among Sylvia's possessions and begins to fear that the elderly woman's death may not have been natural.

With the Garden Club's First Annual Rose Show right around the corner and a historic house up for sale, Torie O'Shea, mother of three and president of the historical society in New Kassel, Missouri, has her hands full. Nosy by nature, Torie can't help but poke around the old Kendall house, rumored to contain rare Civil War artifacts and even rarer quilts that would make fantastic additions to the historic Gaheimer House that Torie runs. But, why...