Locks and Cream Cheese

Paco LeSoto, a dapper retired detective, and Molly Mesta, a witty housekeeper/cook, team up as an endearing pair of sleuths. They encounter murder and mayhem among the residents of Black Rain Corners, a quaint Maryland town on the shores of Chesapeake Bay. When a million -dollar painting and a jeweled antique key suddenly disappear from Marche House mansion, hidden rooms, locked doors, dead bodies, and secrets out of the past embroil the the town's elite Historical Society in sizzling scandal. Trapped in the web of suspicion are a psychoanalyst, an alcoholic gambler, a mob enforcer, an iron pumping gigolo, and an art dealer from the Orient. Paco and Molly set out to expose the mansion's terrifying secrets.