Jacqueline T. Lynch

• Sep-2022
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Elmer and Juliet are called to help an attorney who is settling the estate of a deceased victim of polio, who had been treated in an iron lung at home.  At the time of his death, he was visited by his estranged brother.  Both men were found...

• Dec-2018
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Rehearsals grow tense at a summer theater on the Connecticut shore. The lead actress goes missing �" or was she murdered?Juliet Van Allen and Elmer Vartanian, the “Double V” duo, are called in on the case, but even with Juliet pretending to be ...

• Apr-2018
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• Feb-2016
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An incident from Juliet's past comes back to haunt her. A priceless work of art brings her to a secret bunker. An unidentified corpse is found in the river. As if this day weren't bad enough...Juliet is kidnapped! Juliet Van Allen and Elmer Vartanian...

• Nov-2013
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Picture book, pre-K. Bob the Bear loves to run, but when his friend enters him in a race, Bob faces a bewildering world of competition. When he trips on his shoelace and falls, he is more worried about disappointing his friend than losing the race. B...

• Oct-2013
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Elmer and Juliet continue their rocky relationship while investigating murder at a wealthy estate in Litchfield, Connecticut, in the summer of 1950, while a horse show on the grounds covers the tracks of a number of suspects. Elmer, an ex-convict, is...

• Feb-2013
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A late twenty-first century time traveler battles bards, druids, warrior queens, and Roman cohorts for survival during the Celtic rebellion against the Romans in Britannia, 60 AD. Time traveler John Moore's fate is determined by four women: the Celti...

• Aug-2012
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Four towns dismantled slowly while their inhabitants grieve for a history and heritage that has been voted away from them. Based on an actual event which displaced four entire towns in central Massachusetts for the construction of a reservoir, famili...

• Aug-2012
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"Speak Out Before You Die," the second in the "Double V Mysteries" series reunites wealthy Juliet Van Allen and ex-con Elmer Vartanian on New Year's Eve, 1949. Guests are gathered in snowbound mansion for the wedding of Juliet's widowed father to an ...

• Jul-2012
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Rose, a tall, bumbling American woman travels to New Zealand to re-establish ties with her late mother's family and begins the adventure of her life. If she can survive it. Armed with old family letters, she retraces her mother's footsteps as a young...

• Apr-2012
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A “cozy” post-World War II mystery about a museum heist, a missing child, a murder, and the partnership of a recent ex-con and an even more recent widow. In Hartford, Connecticut it is 1949, and Juliet Van Allen, a museum administrator, discovers...

• Jan-2012
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• Nov-2011
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“Angel of the West” - short story, humor, 4,700 words. A female sheriff in the Wild West and the idealistic newspaper publisher who rides her coattails to fame writing newspaper articles about her....

• Oct-2011
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Short story: 3,100 words, humor. A film director puts a new spin on his classic 1944 movie in a controversial interview. The cynical present stomps on the innocence of the past, and old movie buffs may never forgive him....

• Sep-2011
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A short story, 7, 800 words, humor. Constance leaves home, takes on the guardianship of a friend’s young daughter, and her own elderly grandmother, and a three-story apartment house. Emotional interruptions by her sometimes boyfriend in the Army ...

• Oct-2010
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A publicity stunt to attract tourists to a small dying town results in the entire community turning the clock back to 1904. It is local Christmas tree farmer Everett Campbell's idea, after watching the film "Meet Me in St. Louis," his young daughter'...

• Jul-2010
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Short Story, 2,800 words. Susan, saved by her Heimlich maneuver-performing dog from death by choking, must remain silent until her infected throat heals. Shutting up has never been easy for her. Her job as a customer service supervisor, and her alrea...