Blood Relations
(2026)(Book 12 in the O'Malley Investigations Mystery series)
A Story by Daniel Pelfrey
Chicago, August 1926. The past doesn't stay buried. It sends a wreath of lilies.
In four years, Kit Ashworth's uncle has never once set foot in O'Malley Investigations. Theodore made his disapproval of her "secretarial work" plain at every Sunday dinner. Now he's standing in the doorway with his hat in his hand — because his solicitor is dead, an anonymous letter bearing Theodore's forged signature sits on a police captain's desk, and the appointment book names him as the dead man's last visitor.But the solicitor wasn't just handling Theodore's estate. He'd spent eight months quietly digging into the 1920 investment that destroyed the Ashworth fortune — and he died nine days before he could put a name to paper.
Now Kit and Paddy must untangle a frame built by someone who never leaves fingerprints: a coached witness, a flagged police file, and a trail of her family's contracts that all lead toward one of Chicago's most respected men. To clear her uncle, Kit will have to walk back into the gilded world that cast her out — playing the worried niece for a man who may have engineered her family's ruin.
He thinks she's harmless. That's his first mistake.
Blood Relations is Book 12 in the O'Malley Investigations series — Jazz Age mysteries where the "secretary" solves the case. Perfect for fans of fair-play puzzles, slow-burn romance, and 1920s Chicago atmosphere.
Genre: Historical Mystery
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