Status: Living

The family called it an ending. Greta has found a beginning. A heartfelt genealogy cozy mystery with a long-awaited reunion at stake.

For most of her life, Greta Hollenbecks mother believed her twin sister died in infancy. Now Laurel is alive, painting in a Troy studio, and making her own choices about the family she has never met. Greta is preparing for a reunion that no birth certificate could tell her how to arrange.

But tracing the history of Laurels paintings raises questions about the gallery selling work by Riverbend Houses artists. When gallery owner Preston Gale is found dead, a trail of provenance and sales records becomes part of a murder investigation. And Laurel may have seen something that matters.

Laurel tells Greta about the world in paint. Her newest work may offer a crucial lead—if Greta can understand what it records without assuming what it means. Working alongside the police and Laurels guardian, she must follow the evidence, respect the artists voice, and discover who had something to hide behind the gallerys respectable walls.

Status: Living brings the ten-book family arc of The Kinfinder Genealogy Mysteries to its conclusion with a complete art-world whodunit, a tender second-chance love story, and a heroine who has spent years writing other peoples endings. This time, the most important words she writes may welcome someone home.

For readers who love:

• Art-world murder puzzles and paintings that hold clues

• Lost relatives, family reunions, and belonging

• An older artist whose choices and observations matter

• A midlife sleuth and an earned second-chance love story

• Clean cozy mysteries with a heartfelt series payoff