Michael T. De Gaglia · Mystery Series

The Bellamo Sisters

Every family has secrets. Every town remembers. Kaitlyn and Ashlyn Bellamo enter communities where old grievances, private loyalties, and carefully buried histories make murder intensely personal. Each investigation balances fair clues, dark wit, tightening psychological pressure, and a satisfying solution.

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Meet the Bellamo Sisters

Kaitlyn and Ashlyn are both firmly on the side of justice, but they reach the truth from opposite directions. Their differences create the friction, affection, humor, and unexpected insight at the center of every mystery.

Ashlyn Bellamo

The armor on the outside

Ashlyn meets the world with toughness, decisiveness, and a refusal to be intimidated. She is the sister most likely to push through a closed door, challenge a convenient story, or protect someone before admitting that she cares. Beneath that hard exterior, however, she is extraordinarily sensitive. The feelings she guards most fiercely are often the very ones that sharpen her understanding of a victim and drive her toward the truth.

Kaitlyn Bellamo

The softness that conceals steel

Kaitlyn appears gentler, more flexible, and sometimes even wishy-washy beside her sister. That softness makes people underestimate her. Deep down, she can be remarkably cool, strategic, and calculating—not through cruelty, but because she can set emotion aside long enough to see what must be done. Where Ashlyn confronts, Kaitlyn waits, watches, and recognizes the moment when one precise question can collapse an entire lie.

Two Good Women, Two Very Different Instincts

Ashlyn looks unbreakable but feels everything; Kaitlyn looks yielding but can become unflinchingly exact. Their opposing surfaces and hidden strengths make them better together. One notices the wound behind the evidence, the other the weakness inside the alibi, and neither allows the other to settle for an easy answer.

A note on the characters: Kaitlyn Bellamo, Ashlyn Bellamo, and all recurring characters in the series are fictional creations. They are not based on or intended to portray any real person; the people, dialogue, crimes, communities, and events are works of fiction.

Cover of Sins of St. Johns

Sins of St. Johns

Two girls die in St. Johns more than twenty years apart. When Kaitlyn, Ashlyn, and Hailey trace the connection, they uncover a family history built on silence—and someone willing to preserve it.

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Cover of The Belles of Ole Miss

The Belles of Ole Miss

A beloved professor lies dead on the steps of Ventress Hall. Beneath the pageantry of Ole Miss, the Bellamo sisters find rival loyalties, old resentments, and a campus legend with a living motive.

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Cover of Death at Epping Forest

Death at Epping Forest

Jacksonville’s storied mansion offers elegance, history, and a guest list full of secrets. When death enters the club, Kaitlyn and Ashlyn must separate inherited legend from carefully staged lies.

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Cover of Secrets at The Lodge and Club

Secrets at The Lodge and Club

A glamorous gala ends with Vivian Greystone murdered. Among the coast’s influential families, the sisters uncover greed, betrayal, and a social order determined to protect its own.

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Cover of The Specter of Sourland Gap

The Specter of Sourland Gap

In New Jersey’s Sourland Gap, a haunting tied to Revolutionary War history refuses to stay in the past. Kaitlyn and Ashlyn discover that folklore can hide evidence—and fear can protect a killer.

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Cover of The Sleeping Prophet of Car 1333

The Sleeping Prophet of Car 1333

Families linked to an unofficial record of people erased from history confront a secret tied to Edgar Cayce and Car 1333. Someone intends to reopen the road, no matter who disappears next.

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Stormbound Shadows

On an overnight train from New Orleans to Savannah, a locked-compartment murder, a vanished antique key, and the missing Mercy Glass leave every passenger trapped with a motive.

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Fogbound Phantoms

A Halloween rail tour through Sleepy Hollow, Newport, and Salem turns deadly when a murdered author’s voice and a headless rider invade the journey. The sisters must decide what is performance—and what is a warning.

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