Jacqueline T Lynch: 15 books

The owner of a wealthy estate is found dead of a heart attack after his morning horseback ride. But his son suspects murder. Is it his young stepmother? His jealous wife? The ne’er do well stable groom? The trusted lawyer? Or did the butler do it? Juliet Van Allen and Elmer Vartanian, casual...

An incident from Juliet’s past comes back to haunt her. A priceless work of art brings her to a secret bunker. An unidentified corpse is found in the river. As if this day weren’t bad enough…Juliet is kidnapped! Juliet Van Allen and Elmer Vartanian, casual partners in the business of...

Rose, a tall, bumbling American woman travels to New Zealand to re-establish ties with her late mother’s family and begins the adventure of her life. If she can survive it. Armed with old family letters, she retraces her mother’s footsteps as a young woman during World War II as a government...

A museum heist, a missing child, a murder, a recent ex-con and an even more recent widow. How many times do we have to pay for our mistakes before life sends us a reprieve? Juliet Van Allen, museum administrator, discovers that her artist husband is having an affair with another woman. Elmer...

The first book on the career of actress Ann Blyth. Multitalented and remarkably versatile, Blyth began on radio as a child, appeared on Broadway at the age of twelve in Lillian Hellman's WATCH ON THE RHINE, and enjoyed a long and diverse career in films, theatre, television, and concerts. A sensitive...

A whimsical, poignant tale about a practical joke-turned publicity stunt that fires up the small town of Nuthatch, Massachusetts, in a desperate attempt to attract tourists. Christmas tree farmer Everett Campbell proposes turning the clock back to 1904 and reviving the town’s cozy past, an...

Hollywood films from the 1930s through the 1950s reflected their era—and sometimes created it. Today, classic films are the moving image scrapbooks of collective memory, but when they were shown long ago in downtown movie palaces or neighborhood second-run movie houses, they were, as much...

Short story: 3,100 words, humor.  A film director puts a new spin on his classic 1944 movie in a controversial interview.  The cynical present stomps on the innocence of the past, and old movie buffs may never forgive him.

Guests arrive to attend a wedding in a snowbound mansion on New Year’s Eve. A discovered note warns of danger at midnight. Juliet Van Allen’s wealthy widowed father is preparing to marry a much younger woman in the early hours of New Year’s Day, but when it appears that one of the guests...

Rehearsals grow tense at a summer theater on the Connecticut shore. The lead actress goes missing – or was she murdered? Juliet Van Allen and Elmer Vartanian, the “Double V” duo, are called in on the case, but even with Juliet pretending to be an actress and newcomer to the cast, the...

The Double V Mysteries series begins in the spring of 1949 in Hartford, Connecticut, when a recent ex-con finds his fortunes, or misfortunes, linked with a recent widow whose husband is murdered. Elmer Vartanian’s and Juliet Van Allen’s (their surnames are the Double V of the series title) share...

Four towns…dismantled as an entire valley is prepared to be flooded. The past is being wiped clean, the present threatens, the future belongs to the fearless. Three generations weave a tapestry of isolation and stubborn independence, battling the forces of nature, the Commonwealth, and each...

A female sheriff in the Wild West and the idealistic newspaper publisher who rides her coattails to fame writing newspaper articles about her. 

Susan, saved by her Heimlich maneuver-performing dog from death by choking, must remain silent until her infected throat heals. Shutting up has never been easy for her. Her job as a customer service supervisor and her already strained marriage are on the line. Susan must learn to communicate before she goes crazy, or kills somebody, or both.