Olivia Miller Mystery Books
Olivia Miller was raised by her aunt Aggie from the time she was a year old. Several weeks before Olivia graduates from college in Massachusetts, Aggie dies suddenly and unexpectedly, riding a bicycle at night near her home in Ogunquit, Maine. The death certificate lists the cause of death as a massive heart attack, but Olivia doesn’t believe it. Soon after her graduation, Olivia is on the highway, late at night, heading home to Ogunquit when she comes upon an accident. A man is on his back, in the middle of the road, his legs caught in the wreckage of his overturned Mercedes. He grabs at Olivia’s jacket and frantically mumbles something that sounds like, ‘red Julie’. The man dies at the scene, but not before he slips something into Olivia’s jacket pocket. Olivia is determined to figure out what ‘red Julie’ means, and how her aunt really died that night.
Olivia Miller has just finished her first year of law school. She is staying at her cousin John's house in Howland, MA to dog-sit his chocolate Lab while John goes on a business trip. Olivia promises to clean out the attic and she finds a stack of old newspapers that John's dad had saved. The articles recount the grisly murders of a young mother and her 4 year old daughter in the state park in Howland some forty years ago. John tells Olivia that the mother and daughter were their cousins and that the murderer was never brought to justice. Olivia decides to research the deaths and find out why no one was ever accused of the crime. How far will the killer go to keep his identity a secret?
This story takes place during the fall of Olivia Miller's senior year of college. Arriving at a Halloween party with her friend Melissa, the young women discover a gruesome crime scene in the hosts' living room. As Olivia and her friends try to uncover clues that will lead to the serial killer, it seems that the murderer may be someone they know and their investigation into the cases may be putting their own lives in danger.
This is book 4 in the Olivia Miller Mystery series. Taking a year off from her legal studies to recover from feelings of loss and sorrow over the murder of the aunt who raised her, Olivia is excited to meet up with a friend from college who will be in Boston for two weeks. Olivia doesn’t know that her friend, Ynes, is dealing with similar emotions and that she needs Olivia’s help to find justice for someone she loved. Will Olivia and Ynes find the answers they need before a killer strikes again to silence their questions? Although some of the details of this novel's crime are loosely based on an unsolved Boston art heist, this is a fictional story and the characters and setting are products of the author's imagination.