The Lake Templeton Murders

An edge-of-your seat murder mystery set in a forgotten, ocean-facing town on Vancouver Island! A body washes up on the shores of Lake Templeton, a small town on the coast of Vancouver Island. Sharon Reese, the victim, was a dedicated government employee. Everyone liked her, but no one knew much about her. Was she hiding something? Maybe a questionable past riddled with scandal. And did it lead to her plunge to death, in a drunken stupor, off the dock outside her secluded lakefront lodge? Was it an accident? A suicide? Or cold-blooded murder? Private Investigator, Fati Rizvi, is determined to find out. Fati arrives in Lake Templeton to find secrets that run as deep as the City's sewers. Everyone is hiding something and nothing is as it seems. A cult escapee. A corrupt politician. A struggling airline. A multi-million dollar public-private project to revitalize the Lake Templeton waterfront. How are they all connected? As Fati valiantly unravels the knots, another body is found on the shore. Is it the same killer? And can Fati stop them before they strike again?

A marriage of convenience, an enigmatic boss, an old lover...unraveling her knotty relationships is the key to finding this missing woman. She told her husband she was staying with a friend. Her job demanded overnights out of town. Their marriage was solid. They were trying for a baby. When Misha Sinha, a twenty-five-year-old legal assistant goes missing, her husband hires Private Investigator Fati Rizvi to find her. When Fati starts asking questions, she digs out secrets Misha was harboring that her husband had no idea about...or did he? When CCTV footage is unearthed showing Misha with a man at a hotel, and wrapped around another at the office, her husband no longer wants to find her. She has betrayed him. She's a fallen woman. But Fati is insistent upon finding answers. Has something sinister befallen Misha? Or did she run away to escape an unhappy marriage? Clues are confounding, pointing in different directions. And then, the discovery of the dead body upends the case. Suddenly, everyone is singing a different tune. Misha's lovers are all pointing fingers at one another. Which one is lying? Fati knows that the answers lie in the buds of Misha's past, and in tracing her steps on her final days... PRAISE FOR HS BURNEY: "What a whirlwind. The Lake Temptation Murders has everything you ever wanted in a mystery/murder. Love the characters, and the complexity of the storylines are off the chart. If you are one that likes to guess at the culprits, good luck with this one. There are enough twists and turns to keep a roller coaster enthusiast grabbing on to the seat." - Nikcha for The Lake Templeton Murders The Lake Templeton Murders by HS Burney is an excellent murder mystery that had me guessing til the end. HS Burney spins quite a web of mystery and even when I thought I knew, I second guessed because the mystery was very well written! - Jessica Belmont for The Lake Templeton Murders I thought this was a suspense filled tale that kept me intrigued and not able to easily predictable what was going to happen next. There were a few twists and turns that I would have never expected. - Amy on Goodreads for The Lake Templeton Murders Great Story, every time I thought I knew who did it, I was wrong . The pace of the story is fast enough that it never bogs down and keeps you turning pages to find the answers. The book is a great read. - Donald Puderbaugh for The Missing Twins

A missing young girl, a shifty professor, a drug house - in an idyllic summer, dark secrets are brewing on a picture-perfect college campus in sunny Vancouver... Monica Lin is missing. Her parents are frantic with worry. But her sister is dismissive and her roommates are unconcerned. After all, Monica has disappeared before. In her bright red convertible that no one knows how she could afford. Maybe she's with a sugar daddy, high as a cloud with glazed eyes and no sense of time. She'll return when she's ready, her roommates say. But why has she switched off her phone? As Private Investigator, Fati Rizvi, starts to peel the layers of Monica's life, she discovers a troubled young girl who had become a shell of herself. When Monica first arrived at West Coast College, she was shy, studious, and spent her time at part-time jobs to support herself. Three years in, she barely attended class, floated about in a drug-induced stupor, and charged five hundred dollars per date. Did something happen to Monica to cause this radical transformation? A forbidden love who turned on her? A teacher she trusted who abandoned her? Friends who took advantage of her? Or her own family who had given up on her? And then, the lifeless body is found with vacant eyes staring up at the sky, and things take a dark turn. Fati knows the secret to solving the case is to dig deeper into Monica's past and the events that led her here. Everyone in Monica's inner circle is harboring secrets they are desperate to protect. But Fati is determined that she won't rest until the killer is brought to justice. Praise for HS Burney: This book is full of details and keeps you on the edge of your seat very early on in the book and keeps you there till the end. - Mama Bear's Bookshelf for The Lake Templeton Murders The Lake Templeton Murders by HS Burney is an excellent murder mystery that had me guessing til the end. HS Burney spins quite a web of mystery and even when I thought I knew, I second guessed because the mystery was very well written! - Jessica Belmont for The Lake Templeton Murders I thought this was a suspense filled tale that kept me intrigued and not able to easily predictable what was going to happen next. There were a few twists and turns that I would have never expected. - Amy on Goodreads for The Lake Templeton Murders Great Story, every time I thought I knew who did it, I was wrong . The pace of the story if fast enough that it never bogs down and keeps you turning pages to find the answers. The book is a great read. - Donald Puderbaugh for The Missing Twins

Murder Mystery

The presumption was murder.Everyone assumed they knew the killer??but what if they were wrong about the crime?It was the most beautiful house on the lake. When a girl's remains are found on the property, Bill Miller seems to know something. For ten years, there had been whispers about what happened to the girl.What was he hiding?Her case wasn't Luca's priority.Between his sick wife and The Park Shore Murder, his plate was full. The press was all over it and he needed to find out who murdered the innocent woman relaxing in her backyard. Worth millions, but without any known enemies, what was the motive?Was it mistaken identity?Or something sinister?Those thoughts danced through his head as he tried to get a handle on what happened to the girl. He shouldn't be focused on her, with the other murder unsolved, but he couldn't help it.Something was off.It didn't add up.If he could just figure out what that something was, Luca's gut said the rest would fall into place.Will Luca see through the fog and lies?You'll love this latest release in the Luca Mystery collection because the twist nobody saw coming changes all the math.

A old friend dies in your arms. His last desperate words a cryptic message: "Stop Cindy...Death to Thousands". What would you do? The Judge sleuths out the facts, exposing the shocking private lives of people he thought he knew. Uncovering the greed that would risk the world for financial gain. Along the way the Judge is blind-sided by Katy's sudden unhappiness, the love he expected to last forever seemingly unraveling, the relationship questioned. What are the right words, the right steps, to touch her heart again? To put something fragile back together and fuse it so strong it lasts a lifetime? Can the Judge hold back the dark in his personal life, while exposing killers so cold, so calculating, they give the word, "Evil", a new meaning.

It was the most beautiful house on the lake. When a girl's remains are found on the property Bill Miller seems to know something. For ten years, there had been whispers about what happened to the girl. What whas he hiding? Her case wasn't Luca's priority. Between his sick wife and The Park Shore Murder, his plate was full. The press was all over it and he needed to find out who murdered the innocent woman relaxing in her backyard. Worth millions, but without any known enemies, what was the motive? Was it mistaken identity? Or something sinister? Those thoughts danced through his head as he tried to get a handle on what thappened to the girl. He shouldn't be focused on her, with the other murder unsolved, but he couldn't help it. Something was off. It didn't add up. If he could just figure out what that something was, Luca's gut said the rest would fall into place. Will Luca see through fog and lies?