Jeanne Matthews

Bet your bones, but never bet your heart. A wedding on the edge of a Hawaiian volcano sounds risky to Dinah Pelerin, the bride’s best friend and maid of honor. The bride, Claude Ann Kemper, has bet her heart that she’s found the right man at last. The groom has gone all in on a real estate...

In 1973, on a remote beach on the Greek island of Samos, a movie star named Marilita Stephan murdered her boyfriend, his mother, and a powerful colonel in the military junta, a crime for which she was executed. Forty years later, Dinah Pelerin arrives on Samos to spend the summer with her...

With her passion for mythology, Dinah tries to sort out the complicated song lines of her own ancestors while struggling to understand the Aboriginal dreamtime and solve not one but two bizarre murders. Dinah Pelerin’s wealthy American uncle, dying of cancer, has summoned his entire family to...

No fortress can protect against human corruption, not even the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. Hewn out of a frozen mountain 600 miles from the North Pole, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault was designed to safeguard the Earth’s precious collection of diverse plant seeds from rising sea levels...