The Lisbon Consignment

Lisbon, October 1936.

Spain is at war across the border, and the city is full of people waiting for a ship.

Teddy Kincaid, a courier for a New York auction house, has come to collect a jeweled silver reliquary from a Spanish marquesa and carry it home to be sold. It should be simple. Then she learns that the family's man of business was found dead on the Glória steps the night before she landed, and when she puts her loupe to the reliquary in the family chapel, she finds a very good copy.

The marquesa's son has debts and secrets. The State Police have an inspector who is far too polite. A French rival wants the reliquary for herself, an American newspaperman wants the story, and Teddy's ship sails on Monday.

To bring the true reliquary home, Teddy will have to follow it from hand to hand through a city where everyone is selling something, and find out which of those hands was willing to kill.

Book 1 of The Teddy Kincaid Mysteries: a clean historical mystery with every clue on the page.