The Desk from Hoboken

Unfortunately, it quickly becomes anything but. In fact, it becomes downright dangerous.

Someone doesn't want RaeJean to investigate the puzzling death of the woman whose death inspired Edgar Allan Poe's "The Mystery of Marie Roget." As she follows clues through four states and discovers living family members who both help and hinder her search, she quickly realizes that the secrets of Mary Rogers' demise were never meant to be exposed.

What lengths will someone go to keep the truth buried in the past? As threats escalate and RaeJean and her family's lives become endangered, she's forced to follow every lead and use every skill she has to find the answers she needs before it's too late. Using DNA from two famous New England families, historical data, modern genealogical techniques, and a little guidance from a seemingly mystical antique desk, RaeJean takes on the cold case despite being given every reason to abandon it.

After all, what truths have been hidden for 180 years that would be worth bribery, kidnapping, and even murder?

RaeJean Hunter is about to find out.  

THE DESK FROM HOBOKEN by ML Condike is a combination of historical fiction, forensic genealogy, cozy mystery and magical realism. If you are a fan of the Lucy Lancaster Genealogy Mysteries by SC Perkins, the Sweeney St. George Mystery Series by Sarah Stewart Taylor, the Jefferson Tate Mystery Series by Steve Robinson, or the Torie O’Shea Mystery Series by Rett MacPherson, then you're sure to enjoy The Desk from Hoboken!