My adult series features Emma Grant, an insurance investigator, and is set in Albany, NY, in the 1980s.

The Burmese Kitten - When Albany insurance investigator Emma Grant takes on a building fire, she soon discovers that the fire was deliberately set in order to cover some murders which themselves were committed during the theft of an art object--a statue called the Burmese Kitten. As she sifts through the evidence, she learns that the statue is not from Burma, but from Egypt, and the case is complicated by greed, corruption, and power plays in local Albany politics, both the city machine and the alternative peace and green movements. Begins in 1980. In progress.

The White Elephant - Second in the series, this book takes Emma Grant into mysterious deaths both in her public and private life. An old-time local politico, who was once a fixture of the bar The White Elephant, the hangout for city politicians, dies suddenly. Many residents wonder if the death is symbolic of the changing of the guard in Albany, and if the old machine will follow the fate of the bar, which was demolished years ago. Emma has to investigate the insurance claim of the victim's widow, while at the same time deal with the unexplained death of a beloved cousin's child.