LeGarde Mystery Series by Aaron Paul Lazar
LeGarde Mystery #1
LeGarde Mysteries Box Set
Aaron Paul Lazar
The LeGarde Mysteries Boxed Set
contains the first four books in Aaron Paul Lazar's award-winning Gus LeGarde
mystery series.
Book 1. Double Forté - Gus
LeGarde's life essentially ended four years ago, when his beloved wife leapt to
her death. Today, Gus lavishes love on his family, trying to bury the pain. But
trouble arrives when his arrogant son-in-law's business partner goes missing,
and Gus's innocent friend is set up to take the fall.
Book 2. Upstaged - When Gus
LeGarde agrees to play piano for the high school drama club's production of
"Spirit Me Away," a sixties-style musical he wrote in college, he
doesn't expect to face a barrage of menacing pranks played on his fiancée
Camille and the drama club. Who's sabotaging the show? And what do they have
against Camille? Gus must unravel the mystery before the backstage saboteur
stakes his final, deadly claim.
Book 3. Mazurka - Join Gus
LeGarde in this European rollercoaster ride where he unearths a scandalous
family secret linked to a nineteenth century composer. When brother-in-law
Siegfried is framed for a neo-Nazi’s murder, they’re plunged into a sizzling
cat-and-mouse game where the stakes are lethal.
Book 4. FireSong - What would you do if your country church was hit by
a rogue tornado during services? What if the shrieking winds unearthed the
bones of a missing parishioner in a nearby wheat field? Now add the discovery
of heroin in your elderly minister's bloodstream. When Gus LeGarde is thrown
into the middle of the mess, he knows life has finally gone berserk in East
Goodland, New York. Join Gus as he's lured into a bizarre network of
underground tunnels to expose the most shocking discovery ever to rock the
Genesee Valley.
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LeGarde Mystery #1
Double Forté
Aaron Paul Lazar
After four lonely years, music professor Gus LeGarde is still
reeling from the death of his wife Elsbeth. To deal with the loss, he plays endless
Chopin etudes on his piano and lavishes love on his grandson and dog, but
nothing lessens the pain.
Life spirals out of control when Gus heads for the
snow-covered hills on an early morning skiing excursion to find a mute child
shackled to a bedpost in a cabin. Gus rescues the child but the kidnapper, Baxter,
escapes into the woods to stew in hot revenge.
Unexpectedly thrown together with
Camille, a social worker who takes the child into her own home, Gus falls hard.
The first woman who’s stirred his soul since his Elsbeth, Camille is polite
enough toward him -- but her own dark secrets have her pulling away despite the
mutual attraction.
When Gus’s little grandson goes missing, he fears the worse.
Does Baxter have the little boy? Does he want to trade for the mute child? Gus
braces for the fight of his life, struggling to protect Camille and his family
before time runs out.
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LeGarde Mystery #2
LeGarde Mystery #5
LeGarde Mystery #6
Don't Let the Wind Catch You
Aaron Paul Lazar
When
young Gus LeGarde befriends Tully, a cranky old hermit in the woods who speaks
to an Indian spirit, he wonders if the man is nuts. But when the spirit rattles
tin cups, draws on dusty mirrors, and flips book pages, pestering him to find
evidence to avenge her past, things change fast. What Gus doesn’t understand is
why his mother hates Tully and forbids him to see the old man. What could Tully
have possibly done to earn this distrust?
Faced
with long-buried family secrets and danger, Gus summons courage beyond his years
in this poignant and powerful telling of the sultry summer of 1965.
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LeGarde Mystery #7
LeGarde Mystery #9
Under the Ice
Aaron Paul Lazar
What do you do when
your past comes back to kill you?
After escaping her abusive husband, life is finally good for
Camille LeGarde and her daughter, Shelby. She has a great relationship with her
new husband, Gus, who also loves Shelby like his own child. But the LeGarde
family’s fragile oasis is shattered when the man of Camille’s nightmares is
released from prison.
Greg Robinson never wanted to be a father. But he’s playing
the biological card for all it’s worth to get close to Shelby, so he can
realize his true goal—revenge against Gus LeGarde, the man who “stole” his wife
and daughter.
Lured by the promise of connecting with her real dad, Shelby
vanishes, sending Gus and Camille on a desperate race through the worst ice
storm of the century to find her before Robinson can act on his chilling
threat…
If I can’t have them, neither can you.
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LeGarde Mystery #10
Lady Blues
Aaron Paul Lazar
Past
and present collide when an Alzheimer’s patient’s fragile memory holds the key
to solving mysteries dating back to World War II—including a long lost secret
love affair.
Music professor Gus LeGarde is just doing a favor
for a friend when he agrees to play piano for church services at a local
nursing home. He doesn’t expect to be drawn into a new friendship with an
elderly Alzheimer’s patient dubbed “the music man” or to stumble across a decades-old
mystery locked inside the man’s mind.
Octogenarian Kip Sterling doesn’t know his own
name—but he speaks Gus’s language, spouting jazz terms like “cadence” and
“interlude” and “riff.” He’s also obsessed with “his Bella,” but nobody knows
who she is.
When Kip is given a new drug called Memorphyl, he
starts to remember bits and pieces of his life. Gus learns Bella was Kip’s
first and only love, but their relationship was shrouded in scandal. Intrigued,
Gus agrees to help search for her. Could she still be alive?
Horrified when the miracle drug suddenly stops
working and patients begin to backslide, Gus panics. Can he help Kip find his
beloved Bella before his newfound memories disappear?
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