Nancy A. Hughes

Books

Buried Trust
Price: $5.99 USD. Words: 93,570. Language: English. Published: June 11, 2022 by Black Opal Books. Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » General, Fiction » Mystery & detective » Amateur sleuth
Two years after Kingsley and Todd Henning recovered their kidnapped infant, they are enjoying their country existence. Everything changes when criminals initiate a criminal enterprise adjacent to the Henning’s home. The criminal bosses attempt to buy, scare, terrorize, and kill them. Two crimes, one location, separated by two centuries. The question that binds them—what is buried beneath?
The Innocent Hour
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 81,130. Language: English. Published: February 3, 2020 by Black Opal Books. Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » Amateur sleuth, Fiction » Coming of age
Vietnam veteran Charlie Alderfer hires Ben, a hard-working student, whom teachers, coaches, classmates, and their parents adore. When his adoptive parents accuse him of a crime he didn’t commit and police terrorize him into pleading guilty Charlie risks his own life to uncover the truth. Everyone lies—except Ben. Charlie’s digging exposes them both to an ongoing criminal enterprise.
Vanished ~ A Trust Mystery ~ Book 3
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 96,670. Language: English. Published: October 27, 2018 by Black Opal Books. Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » Women Sleuths, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Crime thriller
It was supposed to be the kidnappers’ last job, snatching the infant of a poor single mother for an unsuspecting wealthy client. But the kidnappers grab the wrong baby—Billy, the son of high-profile bankers, Kingsley and Todd Henning—from their employer’s secure daycare. Realizing their mistake, the kidnappers plant evidence to implicate the parents and dismantle their operation...
Redeeming Trust
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 87,660. Language: English. Published: December 9, 2017 by Black Opal Books. Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » Women Sleuths, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Crime thriller
Kingsley Ward survived two vicious attacks, only to be targeted by the perpetrator’s partner. She should be safe—with the psychopath in prison, awaiting trial for her young husband’s murder—and by publicly swearing that she cannot identify the killer’s partner. She’d just caught a glimpse—but that’s enough. And the partner knows it!
A Matter of Trust
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 83,390. Language: English. Published: May 6, 2017 by Black Opal Books. Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » Women Sleuths, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Crime thriller
A tragic auto accident? No! The accident was staged, and young Doctor Ward murdered. But why? And by whom? The only witness, a DUI motorist, flees the scene. In the aftermath of Ward’s death, and the media fascination, his widow, socialite Kingsley Ward, flees Philadelphia, impulsively accepting a job as VP of commercial lending at a small-town central Pennsylvania bank. But trouble follows her...
The Dying Hour
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 89,030. Language: English. Published: October 15, 2016 by Black Opal Books. Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » Amateur sleuth, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Crime thriller
Vietnam vet and VA hospice patient, Charlie Alderfer, has survived a medical catastrophe, only to discover that he faces three final battles—an inoperable aneurysm lurks in his chest; a mute and despondent five-year-old visitor harbors a terrible secret and needs compassionate help; and a nocturnal intruder is murdering Charlie’s roommates, one by one...