Past and Present: A Marketville Mystery

Opening Past & Present Investigations seems to be the right path for Callie Barnstable after her last investigation. But the new case puts her in the line of fire with her estranged grandparents. In Past & Present by Judy Penz Sheluk, her new client wants Callie to find out all she can about her grandmother who emigrated from Germany in the 1950s and how she died. (Past & Present will be released on September 21 by Superior Shores Press.)

Louisa Frankow had her grandmother's immigration card from 1952, her passport, photographs and letters, but did not have enough information to learn the full story. That's how she landed at Past & Present Investigations. Her own mother was raised in foster care from age three and she died before she was willing to tell Louisa much about her grandmother.

A train case in her mother's closet held some documents and now
she wanted Callie to use this material to find out more about how her grandmother died. Her grandmother, Anneliese Prei, came to Canada on an ocean liner and married a man in Canada and had

Louisa's mother.

Through careful research, Callie discovers Anneliese was killed when Louisa's mother Sophie was three. Her husband Horst Frankow was accused of killing her even though young Sophie said it was "a bad man" that killed her mother, not her father. Horst was convicted and died in a prison fight a few months later.

Callie uses her research skills only to find herself pointing at her own family in a not positive way. Another excellent mystery for Callie.

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