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Murder at Cuyamaca Beach

Bella Kowalski, former nun, now dirt-digging obituary editor, gets an urgent call from Magda Sereno regarding her sister's murder. Magda suspects Loreli's former fiancé, a maverick rancher who takes in the homeless on an ad hoc basis. Then Magda, a surfer, is brutally murdered on New Year’s Day at Cuyamaca Beach's annual Polar Bear dip.

This second book in the Bella Kowalski series leads readers through the dark underbelly of California's scenic Central Coast, where the homeless gather under bridges while the wealthy slumber beneath satin sheets, and where a crowded, sunny beach offers no guarantee of safety.

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Murder in Los Lobos

Something is rotten in the California Central Coast hamlet of Los Lobos, and it's more than just waste from the aging septic tanks. After former nun and current obituary editor Bella Kowalski protests the bayside location of the town's proposed wastewater-treatment plant, she and her husband Mike find themselves up to their eyeballs in a deadly mix of murder most foul, long-buried family secrets, and nasty local politics in this first book in the Bella Kowalski series.

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