Detective Pemberton's Lessons in Love

Arthur Pemberton notices everything.A misplaced file. An altered security log. An eleven-minute gap in surveillance footage. A single fiber caught where it shouldn't be.What he doesn't understand is why people keep smiling at him.As a highly methodical property-crimes detective in Ocean View, Arthur is perfectly comfortable with evidence, probabilities, and patterns. People are considerably more complicated.Then the Chronos Emerald disappears from a historic clock shop without a single obvious sign of forced entry.The investigation leads Arthur into a web of suspicious business dealings, professional thieves, security experts, and a rival jeweler who seems to know more than he admits. But the most unexpected discovery is waiting across the street at Petal and Stem, where florist Chloe Vance has an extraordinary ability to notice what other people miss.Chloe sees motives where Arthur sees data. She understands emotions he struggles to interpret. And despite his attempts to keep their relationship strictly professional, Arthur finds himself returning to her flower shop again and again.As the case grows more dangerous, Arthur and Chloe discover that solving a crime may require more than evidence. It may require trust.For Arthur Pemberton, the hardest mystery may not be who stole the emerald.It may be learning what it means to love someone.Detective Pemberton's Lessons in Love is the first book in the Detective Pemberton series, combining police investigation, mystery, character-driven romance, humor, and the unlikely partnership of a meticulous detective and the woman who sees the world very differently from him.