The Maine Books--The Ardmore Theberge Series
The Last Altruist
Hard as a Headstone
Everyone has a past. Some are willing to kill to keep it buried.
Former Army CID investigator Ardmore Theberge returns to Portland, Maine, determined to start over after a violent incident ends his military career. His plan is simple: build a quiet business drawing hand-crafted maps and stay out of trouble.
But trouble finds him anyway.
When a powerful real estate developer is murdered inside a small stationery shop owned by Ardmore’s new friend Rebekah Horvath, suspicion falls on her developmentally disabled son, Robbie. Before Ardmore can prove the boy’s innocence, Robbie vanishes—turning a local tragedy into something far more dangerous.
The Dead don't lie. The living do.
Former Army CID investigator Ardmore Theberge just wanted to complete his assignment: a routine land survey.
But when he discovers a young woman murdered in a historic Maine graveyard—her skull crushed by blunt-force trauma—routine goes out the window.
The victim, Janey Nightingale, was part of an activist group fighting to stop a bottled water company from relocating the cemetery. The authorities seem in no hurry to solve the case. But when Ardmore's friend Millicent Feathernight implores him to look into what appears to be a crime against a fellow Native American woman, he can’t say no.