The Family Vault (Sarah Kelling & Max Bittersohn Mysteries Series Book 1)

An aging stripper’s fresh corpse turns up in an old family tomb at Boston Common in this “first-rate suspense whodunit” (The Cincinnati Post).
 
Like many old New England families, the Kellings live to die. Although their family vault is spacious and comfortable, it will not do for Sarah Kelling’s Great-Uncle Frederick. In his will, he demands to be buried inside the ancient family tomb at Boston Common, which hasn’t admitted a new member in over a century. But when the Kellings crack the old vault’s door, they find a recently built brick wall—and behind it lays a surprisingly fresh corpse, a skeleton with rubies in its teeth.

Her name was Ruby Redd, and many years ago she was the toast of Boston’s burlesque scene. Her murder case is ice cold, but when Sarah begins investigating it, she finds that the fiery passions behind Ruby’s death still burn white hot. With the help of art-fraud investigator Max Bittersohn, Sarah will solve the mystery of the stripper’s murder—or take her own place in the family vault.

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• The Palace Guard (Sarah Kelling & Max Bittersohn Mysteries Series Book 3)
• The Convivial Codfish (Sarah Kelling & Max Bittersohn Mysteries Series Book 5)
• The Plain Old Man (Sarah Kelling & Max Bittersohn Mysteries Series Book 6)
• The Bilbao Looking Glass (Sarah Kelling & Max Bittersohn Mysteries Series Book 4)
• The Recycled Citizen: A Sarah Kelling Mystery (Sarah Kelling & Max Bittersohn Mysteries Series Book 7)
• The Silver Ghost (Sarah Kelling & Max Bittersohn Mysteries Series Book 8)
• The Balloon Man (Sarah Kelling & Max Bittersohn Mysteries Series Book 12)
• The Gladstone Bag (Sarah Kelling & Max Bittersohn Mysteries Series Book 9)
• The Odd Job (Sarah Kelling & Max Bittersohn Mysteries Series Book 11)