Books by Mary Kohnke
Real stories put into fiction by Florida mystery novelist Mary Kohnke.new RELEASE!
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Murder? In Ponte Vedra?! |
A group of citizens want to incorporate the community of Ponte Vedra, including Palm Valley. Dr. Mary Paul and others in Palm Valley are adamantly opposed. Many in Ponte Vedra, for financial reasons, do not want to incorporate. They join together to try and defeat the referendum in September.
The local county commissioner, who actively supports incorporation, decides not to run for office again. Dr. Paul is encouraged to run for the seat at her boat parade party. Shortly after the party, one of the guests, who had committed to work against incorporation, is found dead in her pool on the ocean front.
The woman's husband had been killed in London a year earlier. She willed her estate in Ponte Verde to St. John's charities, to be administered by Dr. Paul, who arranged an estate sale of her belongings. The woman's homes in London and New York are broken into and files searched, but nothing else is disturbed.
The plot revolves around the investigation into the woman's death, the estate sale and who may have been involved in the husband's death. Who is looking for the husband's papers; what is in the papers? The beauty of the Intercoastal Waterway and the oceanside community of Ponte Vedra make a wonderful setting for this fast-paced Florida novel.
Previous Releases
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She Said, A Landfill Where?! |
The residents of Palm Valley/ Ponte Vedra discover that the city of Jacksonville is planning to locate a landfill just west of them across the Intracoastal Waterway. The thought of the odor, wafting over them from the west in the heat of the summer, has sent the entire community into shock and action.
Dr. Paul, as the president of the Palm Valley community center and the incoming chairman of the St. Johns County Civic Roundtable, is a major figure in the fight to take on the City of Jacksonville. She acts to stir up the whole County against the landfill.
A young visiting environmentalist and biologist agrees to help the people look for possible endangered species on the site. He is found murdered. He is connected to Paul's mysterious friends Steel and Stone, who fly in to help in the investigation.
The suspects range from the trash haulers, to the Jacksonville city officials, even the the local people fighting the landfill. The action is fast and the ending surprising.
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She Said What?! |
Dr. Mary Paul, a New York University professor, retires to her home on the Intracoastal Waterway in Palm Valley, near Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida. Her community association is attempting to keep the developers of a large golf community from locating a sewage plant near there homes. Dr. Paul threatens to lead the community to picket on national television at the Tournament Players Championship.
The developer's lawyer, attempting to stop this action, threatens her. Later the dead body of her maid is found in the waterway, tied to her dock. Was the murder a case of mistaken identity, a warning, or something else?
The plot revolves around the investigation of the death of the maid, drug runners, and a chase in the Intracoastal marshes. There is a bit on the history of the area of Ponte Vedra, a glimpse of St. Augustine and St. Johns County, Florida, as well as fishing on the Intracoastal Waterway.
Dr. Paul is an independent woman of means. She does not go looking for trouble but finds it difficult to back down when it appears on her doorstep. There is a passing resemblance to the author.
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