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 Hollenbeck's 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 Laurel's paintings raises questions about the gallery selling work by Riverbend House's 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 Laurel's guardian, she must follow the evidence, respect the artist's voice, and discover who had something to hide behind the gallery's 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 people's 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