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A Taste of Murder

Jo Grossman
Rosewood's Ashes: A Tory Travers/David Alvarez Mystery (Tory Travers/David Alvarez Mysteries)

Aileen Schumacher

On New Year's Day, 1923, Rosewood, Florida had its own school, a baseball field, a Masonic Hall, a train station, and three churches. In less than one week it was burned to the ground. Inspired by the true story of one town's destruction at the hands of hate and intolerance, ROSEWOOD'S ASHES is a driven mystery, as well as unique perspective on historical injustice.
Returning to Florida to visit her coma-stricken father, Tory Travers prepares herself for the demons of her past, the sordid reputation she'd suffered as a senator's daughter. Accompanying her for moral support is David Alvarez--devoted friend, infrequent lover, and detective with the El Paso Police Department.
But before the pair have a chance to confront Tory's troubled past, they are confronted with a more immediate tragedy in the vehicular manslaughter of a young woman they just met on the plane. A young woman who had told them about Rosewood and of the senator's involvement in research concerning the events that led to the town's destruction. Soon, another corpse turns up, a man well known to Tory, and Alvarez takes a personal interest in unearthing the truth about Rosewood, before Tory herself becomes a suspect--or a victim.
Engineered for Murder : A Mystery

Aileen Schumacher

Tory Travers is a young, widowed structural engineer, living with her son on the outskirts of a campus town in New Mexico. Her life changes when a scandal erupts regarding the structural problems of the new football stadium. Tory's business is financially threatened if she carries out her duties as inspector.
Things escalate when a person and lab records disappear and someone is found murdered. Enter Detective Alvarez, who discovers Tory's connection to the death. When Tory starts receiving death threats, the two work together to solve the mysteries.
Affirmative Reaction: A Tory Travers/David Alvarez Murder Mystery

Aileen Schumacher

Engineer Tory Travers reluctantly worked with police detective David Alvarez in Engineered for Murder to determine who wanted to kill her so badly that either a bullet or a wrecking ball would suffice. Then, in Framework for Death, she helped Alvarez uncover the cause of a residential structural collapse concealing two bodies. Now Tory needs David's help again when she discovers a woman's body has been stuffed in a manhole while she's inspecting a community development site -- and she wants to help in order to speed things up: the city officials who contracted her company to inspect the storm sewers will undoubtedly hold up her check until after the case has been solved.
The body turns out to belong to a contentious city employee who vehemently opposed affirmative action programs. Years before, the Hispanic contractor who built the now-abandoned subdivision apparently committed suicide -- or was it really murder? Did the dead woman know something about it? Or maybe the past had nothing to do with it -- perhaps the recent return of her ex-husband was a plan for revenge; or perhaps her political views finally sent someone over the edge -- like the son of the dead contractor, who knows something, but doesn't want to reveal his information to Tory or David.
But David and Tory think the past had everything to do with the woman's demise, and find themselves unraveling deadly strings that go way back in time ...
Framework for Death: A Mystery (Tory Travers/David Alvarez Mysteries)

Aileen Schumacher

Answers are few and far between when El Paso Police Detective David Alvarez is called to investigate an unexplained collapse in the residence of an affluent matron. The dead home owner and another unidentified body are discovered in the basement in what appears to be a concealed room. If this isn't enough to figure out--a live, unidentified infant is discovered upstairs.
When Alvarez calls in engineer Tory Travers to figure out what happened to cause the collapse, the media turns the case into a circus. Soon Alvarez is dealing with an alleged drug king, his DEA shadow, a mystery woman who unapologetically works outside the law, and Tory's inclination to go searching for solutions on her own. While Tory and her foreman look for the builder of the secret room, her son and the infant son of Alvarez's partner are threatened if they don't drop the case.