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Now that Landry Glass is a memory, Sophia Davies O'Fallon finds herself in need of a new situation. The pawnbroker, deGroot, puts her together with an ersatz German count, Gerhardt Weissmann. Weissmann and Sophia cut a wide swath through Baltimore's elite, managing to empty safes and jewel cases, and dodge the police at the same time.

When the City of San Francisco wrecked outside of Harney, Nevada, Til Duprey lost more than a plum assignment in the Far East. He did manage to gain a wife, however. The couple return to Tennessee in order for Til to recover, when he is offered his dream job. But that dream will take him and his bride into the middle of a war zone. Do they go, or do they stay home where it's "safe"? Meanwhile, one of the first cases the Shay Detective Agency worked on was an insurance fraud that resulted in the property owner going to prison. He would do anything to get revenge on the Shays. He winds up in ...

Families. It's a shame we don't get to pick who are in them. Some family members are wonderful. Others aren't worth the powder to blow their noses. Dylan and Rhys Shay have moved their families to Tennessee, where Dylan is the new chief of police. They had thought there would be far less crime in a rural town than they had to deal with in Baltimore. They are soon to learn that crime in the country is different only because there are fewer people. Dead bodies begin turning up in the fairgrounds. Marcel Duprey and his little family are doing quite well with their music school. Parents are ...

in 1913, the fledgling Bureau of Investigation was tasked wtih apprehending human traffickers. Not only were they hunting violators of the Mann Act, but they were tasked with ending peonage. As today, new immigrants were taken by unscrupulous people and sold into what virtual slavery. A young police officer in Baltimore City receives an urgent message from his cousin, newly arrived from Ireland. Declan Nagel has been fooled into such a sitution, and is being held at a forced labor camp laying rails and building trestles. The BoI investigates the camp, in order to end the traffic in human ...

Baritone Isaac Pick is making his international debut. His music master has traveled with him to teach him his part during the trip. Marcel Duprey's estranged father shocks him down to his socks when he receives a command to bring his wife and children to his estate. But he's even more shocked when his half-brother Klaus and Klaus' wife arrive uninvited. Meanwhile, in Tennessee, the families are still trying to recover from when the KKK attacked their homes. In Baltimore, rose was in charge of remodeling the restaurant, and has hired a young woman to work in the kitchen. Was it a mistake?

A neighborhood grocery store has been firebombed and the owner killed. Some woman is going around town selling "insurance" so the same thing doesn't happen to them. Baltimore City was really living up to its name of "Mob Town" in 1921. Will the police be able to stop the St. Louis Woman? And is she the only guilty party?

A minister has been murdered along with his paramour, their bodies found in the basement of church's residence. The preacher's wife is missing. Gabrielle Walsh, a former traveling evangelist, knew both the preacher and his wife. A year after the man's demise and the woman's disappearance, a "man" surfaces in a neighboring community operating a "spiritualist camp", where "he" offers to contact dead loved ones. Gabby knows the medium is the missing wife. Gabby agrees to assist the police by going undercover to try and apprehend a murderess.

Lily Barnett, a failure in medical school through no fault of her own, enters the new nursing program at St Joseph's Hospital. At the very beginning of the War to End All Wars, she steps up and joins the British Medical Corps.

Things have settled down for the Moriarty family. Ted is back in his wife's good graces, They are preparing to return to Baltimore to Ted's job as police captain. In Baltimore, things are heating up. The O'Carrollan crime family has an ax to grind with certain members of the City police force, and Big Dev, the head of the O'Carrollans, is gunning for the officers affiliated with Katy Moriarty's bakery. Marcel and his family have returned from their sojourn in Europe, followed by his father and newly adopted sister. Then things really heat up.

The town of Coatesville has just celebrated two weddings. In the midst of their celebrations, someone manages to really irritate the local Klan. The local Klaven rides on the Catholic families in the small town, and on the school. The Robertson County Sheriff really messed up. He was skimming money from the county, accepting bribes, and generally casting a pall on his office. A few months before he had arrested everybody in the courtroom because his deputy couldn't control a prisoner. One of those arrested was Attorney Declan Dougherty. Things go from bad to worse when the sheriff orders ...

Prohibition is just getting started. Baltimore City Police are told to stand down from any enforcement involving the Volstead Act, as the Governor has claimed his state would be "just as wet as ever". Gabrielle Lane Pennington is out of jail, and ready for a new challenge. Joshua McAleese, the brother of her former associate, has taken over Mickey's operation. He presses Gabby into working with him in order to open a nightclub. Everything is going along swimmingly, the club is making more money than anyone anticipated. Then Gabby made the mistake of asking for more money.

Baltimore City Police Detective Sergeant Dylan Shay has been seconded to the fledgling Bureau of Investigation Baltimore Field Office. One of their first mandated investigations is the pursuit of people in active violation of the Mann Act. Their hunt takes them through multiple states by rail, as they pursue the kidnappers of three young girls destined to be trafficked to a brothel. Will they catch up with the procurer in time?

1931: Mary Faith and Declan Dougherty are leaving home for college in Baltimore. Considering both their families consist of working women and law enforcement officer, their formative years have involved more than their share of intrigue. Faith thought going to nursing school would be calmer than living with people who thought nothing of discussion autopsy results over the dinner table. Boy was she wrong.

It's late 1934. The German American Bund is on the rise along the East Coast. A few months before, Til Duprey had managed to infiltrate some of their meetings for the FBI. Things didn't go quite as he expected. In Tennessee, young attorney Declan Dougherty has his first big case, defending a woman accused of casting spells on her neighbor. The young attorney manages to impress not just his client, but opposing counsel and the judge. Meanwhile, Declan's twin brother Donagh returns from university in London. The newly minted horse doctor is anxious to establish himself, much to Chiara Shay's ...

With Rory O'Fallon history, Sofie Davies O'Fallon is in search of a new partner in crime and protector. She finds Landry Glass. A former calvelry officer, world traveler and ladies man, Landry moves in on Sofie and shows her all the things she's been missing in life, while helping her find bigger and better scores. Meanwhile, the police are trying to catch Glass and Sofie doing something they shouldn't. Tomas Ribiero goes undervocer, and finds way more than he ever expected.

Baltimore City. 1910 Police hunt across the strata of society for a murderer. His victims seem to be from all social levels.

Baltimore City, 1911: For the first time in its history, prostitution has been made a crime. Brothels are being closed, inmates tossed onto the street. Two young women, forced into "the life" as young teens, manage to break free of their past and open their own business, a small bakery. The man responsible for trafficking them comes back, trying to insinuate himself into their lives.

Til and Maeve Duprey managed to survive a train wreck on the way to his last assignment. Imagine his excitement when he is offered a plum post at the foreign office of an international news service. While he's covering assorted stories, Til winds up embroiled in not only international affairs, but in hunting for saboteurs and spies sent by Germany to undermine British morale, and possibly the British military infrastructure.

Why Are You Weeping, Sister? Gwendolyn Graham's last happy day was just before her 15th birthday, the day before her beloved father died. Her mother forces her to abandon everything she has ever known, including the young man she loves and hopes to wed, and drags her from their farm to Baltimore, where she throws her daughter into the path of every man who shows an interest. Unfortunately, one of those men is a brothel owner. When Gwendolyn disappears, Detective Shay has to find her before it's too late. The House That Jack Built Baltimore City. 1910 Police hunt across the strata of society...

Rose Nagel has gone completely off the rails. Back in Baltimore, she has split from her husband of twenty plus years, alienated her only child, and has managed to lose every friend she had in the business known as Zofia’s Cakes and Tarts. Does our Rose try to mend her fences and repair the damage she’s done? No, she takes up with a much younger man. Then things go from bad to worse. In Tennessee, Tadhg Nagel has moved south to be with his daughter Maeve. Meanwhile, Maeve and Til, or as he is known in his byline as “T. Marcel Duprey”, have grown closer. Regardless of her mother’s ...