Mystery Writers of America presents
THE MYSTERY BOX, featuring my short story, “Mad Blood.”

On a snowy Christmas Eve, a beautiful young mother goes out to buy a few last minute gifts and never returns….

…thirty years later, her daughter picks up her trail.



As the owner of an estate sale business, Audrey Nealon knows a lot about art, antiques, and the unlikely places old people hide their treasures.  But the shabby home of an elderly widow holds alarming surprises: street drugs in the silverware drawer, a trunkful of jewels in the attic, and the distinctive ring Audrey’s mother was wearing the night she disappeared. Believing the truth will bring her peace, Audrey relentlessly pursues clues to her family’s troubled history. But each fact Audrey uncovers drags her further away from the love she craves, and puts her on a collision course with people more determined, more ambitious, and more dangerous than she can fathom.  Ultimately, some truths are too awful to bear, and too terrible to share.