title: The Amethyst Tears
author: Ross, Marilyn
description: WHO ELSE WAS IN THE GRAVEYARD?
  
  What price would Jean pay to silence forever the hideous rumors about her cousin Rhoda? The townspeople still spoke about the unsolved murder of Rhoda's lover, Thomas Gomez - and the mysterious "third person" at the fatal tryst in the graveyard 50 years ago.
  
  Jean searched every corner of Rhoda's old house for clues - now she studied the kitchen selves. She spied a dusty box on the uppermost ledge...how long could it have been hidden there? Excited, she reached up and pried at the lid. It opened. Suddenly the room was bathed in the spectral glow of amethyst...as Jean stared straight in the eyes of a witness to murder!
  
  AMETHYST -- THE FEBRUARY BIRTHSTONE -- A Jewel of Royal Purple, St. Valentine's Gemstone