Young, well-intentioned, introverted, intellectual, and socially inept, Tedmund "Ted" Strickland moves from Upstate New York to New York City. There he attends university, earns a degree in finance, and lands a plum job with a brokerage firm. He unwittingly finds himself flung into social circles he'd never willingly have entered. He had been bullied as a youth, and now manipulated as an adult. Unexpectedly, Ted receives a call from a woman he once had a crush on, the heiress Violet Naysmyth Hunter. Violet, whose husband is a poor boy from The Bronx who made good, is less than a year married. She confides in Ted about her plan to start a family. Within an hour or so of their conversation, Violet is found murdered in her Manhattan town house. Lieutenant Paton and Detective Ramirez of the NYPD are determined to apprehend Violet's killer. The crime scene shows no signs of a break-in, giving rise to the theory that the victim knew her killer. Violet's husband, cousins, servants, and friends either have a plausible alibi or lack a motive. Yet the victim and the suspects all have secrets. Further, to Paton's and Ramirez's astonishment, everything connects back to Ted. After Ted finds himself a person of interest in the death of Violet, he plots his next moves carefully. Paton and Ramirez realize they must be meticulous if they are to bring Violet's killer to justice.

TEDMUND AND THE MURDERED CHEERLEADER Arriving in Tiryns, Tessa “Tess” O’Neil is on a mission to make amends for wrongs she committed as a teenager. In recovery from years of drug dependency, she decides to contact her former high school friends, the once cool kids of Aaron Burr High. She feels compelled to reveal the truth about the mysterious disappearance of a student, Walter Krol, which happened six years earlier. On a trip to Tiryns for the Thanksgiving weekend, Ted Strickland and his boss Andrew Hunter discover the body of a slain woman on the side of a country road. She is dressed in a high school cheerleading uniform. Later, Ted realizes the body is that of Tessa “Tess” O’Neil, a former classmate of his. She was said to be the prettiest cheerleader in the history of Aaron Burr High. Ted finds himself an unwitting player in the investigation of Tessa’s unfortunate demise. The once cool kids of Aaron Burr High, who had bullied and belittled him, now as adults are eerily friendly and, stranger still, eager to talk to him about old times. “The past doesn’t stay in the past. It’s about to impale itself on the present,” Detective Ramirez observed after he and Lieutenant Paton were called in to assist the Tiryns PD on Tessa’s murder case. Ted comes into conflict with his boss Andrew Hunter and takes a stand with Detective Ramirez. Old secrets slowly leak out, and Ted finds himself not knowing whom he can trust. Spoiler Alert: This book references events from Book One: Tedmund and the Murdered Heiress.

TEDMUND AND THE MURDERED CHEERLEADER Arriving in Tiryns, Tessa "Tess" O'Neil is on a mission to make amends for wrongs she committed as a teenager. In recovery from years of drug dependency, she decides to contact her former high school friends, the once cool kids of Aaron Burr High. She feels compelled to reveal the truth about the mysterious disappearance of a student, Walter Krol, which happened six years earlier. On a trip to Tiryns for the Thanksgiving weekend, Ted Strickland and his boss Andrew Hunter discover the body of a slain woman on the side of a country road. She is dressed in a high school cheerleading uniform. Later, Ted realizes the body is that of Tessa "Tess" O'Neil, a former classmate of his. She was said to be the prettiest cheerleader in the history of Aaron Burr High. Ted finds himself an unwitting player in the investigation of Tessa's unfortunate demise. The once cool kids of Aaron Burr High, who had bullied and belittled him, now as adults are eerily friendly and, stranger still, eager to talk to him about old times. "The past doesn't stay in the past. It's about to impale itself on the present," Detective Ramirez observed after he and Lieutenant Paton were called in to assist the Tiryns PD on Tessa's murder case. Ted comes into conflict with his boss Andrew Hunter and takes a stand with Detective Ramirez. Old secrets slowly leak out, and Ted finds himself not knowing whom he can trust. Spoiler Alert: This book references events from Book One: Tedmund and the Murdered Heiress.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.