Title: A Well-Kept Family Secret
Description: The year is 1897 and Vincente Chavez rules the Red Light District in Old Los Angeles. Someone plunges a knife into the heart of the young prostitute, Jessica, who lives in his home as his mistress. Unfortunately, she becomes no more than a brief footnote in Los Angeles history. No one could predict how her death would affect other lives in the brief span of just over one hundred years.

P.I. Sandi Webster is in for the surprise of her life when her overbearing, menopausal mother, Livvie, arrives in Los Angeles and wants her to solve a very cold case – a century-old murder. Livvie throws in a buried treasure to enhance her changes of her daughter taking the case.

While Sandi and her partner, Pete Goldberg, work on a stalking case, the circumstances of the older murder begin to take shape. Through research, old letters and newspaper articles, Sandi begins to see her great-great-great-grandfather in a new and unflattering light.

Who killed Jessica? Is there really a buried treasure? Sandi soon learns the truth and you’ll want to know, too.
Subjects: Marja McGraw, humor, Sandi Webster, mystery, Old Los Angeles, family related murder, murder, female P.I., fun, history, cold case, old crime, turn of the century crime, Sandi Webster (Fictitious character), Fiction, Fiction, general, Fiction, mystery & detective, general
Places: Los Angeles, California
Time periods: Around 2005