It was just the 1948 Thanksgiving Parade on Burlington, Vermont's Church Street until one of the kids from the Children's Home dropped out of sight. The tangled search for the child leads Roman Catholic priest, Thomas Ladue and Fort Ethan Allen's Captain John Courtney through a shadowy trail of a maple sugar farm, children's institutions, ancient battlegrounds, and more.

Born and raised in the Green Mountain state, L. E. Fleury weaves fictional personalities and historical Chittenden County locations into page-turning, plot-twisting whodunnit scenarios. This Junctions Murder Mystery Series will sweep the reader through a saga of featured characters as they journey through the culture of the late 1940s and '50s, played out against the beautiful rolling hills of Vermont.

The Junctions Murder Mystery Series consists of five (so far) books, each chock-full of surprising twists, ending with a message of hope. Characters range from innocent to evil, with just some good old folk that "smoke, drink and spit in the sink" in between. The book word counts range anywhere from 90K-165K.