Murder, Sweet Murder, the newest Will Rees, will be released February 1, 2022.

Almost all of the series focuses on Will, his family and friends. Through the years, readers have asked for more about Lydia.

In Murder, Sweet Murder, I answer that call.

Lydia receives a frantic letter from her sister begging her to come to Boston. Their father has been accused of murdering a young man, just recently arrived from Jamaica. Marcus Farrell is engaged in the Triangle Trade. Cod is shipped to the islands for the slaves that harvest the sugar cane. Sugar is sent back to the Northeastern United States to be turned into rum. And the rum is shipped to Africa (among other places) to purchase more slaves.

Has Marcus Farrell murdered the young man? And why?

Besides Lydia’s father, Rees meets her stepmother and her sister Cordelia. He finishes the journey with a new understanding of why Lydia fled her father’s home to live with the Shakers, and now that she is married to Rees, does not miss her former life of luxury.