{"product_id":"2940044429789","title":"Charlotte Diamond Mysteries Bundle 1","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis bundle contains the first two books in the best selling Charlotte Diamond Mystery Series by Olivia Stowe.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn By The Howling Charlotte Diamond, ex FBI investigator, has recently retired to Diamond Cottage near Maryland’s eastern shore of the Chesapeake Bay.\u003cbr\u003eMoving to a small town she thought she had left her life of crime—solving it, that is—behind her, and is struggling to find a new purpose in life. But the small waterfront community of Hopewell on the Choptank, with its wealthy artistically inclined inhabitants, is hiding old crimes and dark secrets beneath its outward quiet and affluence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA surprising number of people from the community have intersecting pasts that Charlotte is unaware of and that become downright murderous, coming to a head when blockbuster movie actress, Brenda Brandon, arrives in the village in full retreat from a recent tragedy in her life. Brenda also brings unexpected romance into Charlotte’s previously straight life. And Sam, the neglected husky who has attached himself to Charlotte, knows more about what is going on than he can tell her, even with his howling.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Retired with Prejudice Charlotte finds that high-level international intrigue has sought her out.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen the abandoned sailboat of spy master Win Engleton washes up against her dock. Charlotte struggles with having to choose between focusing on her new-found significant other, former movie star Brenda Boynton, or a complex espionage mystery of who did what to who and why that reopens ever deeper mysteries again and again like a Matryoshka Russian nesting doll.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cyberworld Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47107885072624,"sku":"2940044429789","price":4.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940044429789_p0.jpg?v=1763663526","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940044429789","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}