Treasure in Exile
Treasure Built of Sand
by S W Hubbard
I liked This Bitter Treasure so much I started the next one immediately. There is only one more after these--I think?--so I should have waited.
This time Audrey gets to run an estate sale at an house that's still occupied--by an old lady who is dying any minute...supposedly. But the lady is "not quite dead yet" and the other people who mysteriously appear in the house are strange and sinister indeed. Plus there's the wrinkle that her assistant Jill has gone off to college leaving Audrey to cope with her sister-in-law as a helper. On first acquaintance, the sister-in-law is hopeless--a woman made idle and rich by marriage to a man who's not feeling it anymore but has to keep up appearances--and his trophy wife--at all costs.
Treasure in Exile was even better than the last, and this time Audrey and Ty hire a new assistant, who turns out to be a hoot. And it takes them (plus Sean, her husband) on a journey into time when she investigates the reclusive life of the deceased lady and her maid, who leave the property to a local charity for inner city children. Issues of race and prejudice are mixed in with the mystery.
And then, that one being so good, I got Treasure Built of Sand almost immediately. It was maybe not as twisty and convoluted as the other plots--I felt like some of the complexities "fell out" in a more obvious manner than her usual. But I still loved it and savored every word.
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