David Ciambrone – författare

Virginia Davies, curator at the Southbrook Museum, is leaving on vacation to the romantic seaside town of Pelican Cove with her boyfriend, Dr. Andy Clark, when her boss innocently asks her to make it a well paid, working vacation. The old director was murdered trying to mount an exhibit about a ship that sunk off the coast years before, touching a nerve in someone bent on keeping a secret that went down with the ship. Virginia stumbles upon the secret and deeper intrigue involving smuggling, drugs, deceit and murder by local, prominent citizens. She leads her friends, US Marshals, the Coast Guard and the murderers on a wild adventure to the cutting conclusion.

Virginia Davies, a graduate student in history is embroiled in an unclassic adventure involving a hoard of gold, thieves and a ring of smugglers in a plot that almost costs Virginia and her friends their lives. Laguna Treasure begins in 1933 in a watery cave in the coastal mountains of Southern California. Sixty plus years later, an antique dealer friend of Virginias, Abbey McQueen, provides a clue that launches Virginia on a perilous adventure. Virginia finds her life is placed in jeopardy by a group of thieves interested in gaining her treasure at any cost. People she contacts keep turning up dead. She and Dr. Andy Clark, her boyfriend and Professor of Engineering, plunge headlong into a vicious, no-holds-bared, seemingly non-ending struggle to what could be a one way journey to survive.

Archaeologists and televangelists are about as compatible as oil and water. Virginia Davies, a curator of American History at the Southbrook Museum, attends the American Archaeological Convention in Napa, California. The arrival of The Reverend Hockings is controversial enough, his dropping dead makes it worse. The coroner and police rule the death a stroke. Virginia discovers it''s murder. The killers now want Virginia and her friends, dead. Virginia must keep herself alive long enough to follow a trail of blood and corruption from the lush vineyards of Napa to the cool fog-shrouded coast of Northern California to find the killers of a seemingly unsolvable case.