Title: Make Old Bones
Author: Leslie S. Talley
Series: Clarice Campion and Miss Letty Series (#1)
Genre: Mystery/Suspense
Publisher: Wild Child Publishing
Release Date: August 21 2012

Fifteen-year-old Connie Kittredge disappears in 1953, presumed drowned. Almost forty years later her skeleton is unearthed in the disused dumbwaiter of Belgrath House, recently restored and opened as a B & B. The house sits on an island in the tidal estuary of the Halifax River, Daytona Beach, Florida.
Clarice and Otis Campion function as caretakers of Belgrath. Clarice, along with Miss Letitia Lorraine, retired star of the Silent Screen, former owner of the house, and permanent guest tries to solve the mystery. The skeleton’s discovery coincides with the reunion of Connie’s Class of ’57. A wake held at Belgrath for Connie provides sleuthing opportunities, but also affords the murderer a chance to strike again, using cherry laurel-spiked iced tea.
Inadvertently left behind during a forced evacuation of Belgrath due to Category Four Hurricane Aphrodite, Clarice faces a killer willing to strike again, using nature itself—a tidal surge and rapidly rising water—as a weapon.