Abbott Agency
The Abbott Agency series is a series of detective and mystery novels written by the popular American author Veronica Heley. All the novels of the series feature the primary character of Bea Abbott as the operator of the Abbot Agency and the main protagonist of the series. In the series, Bea Abbot is depicted as a widow, who owns the detective agency, the Abbott agency and takes up cases from the clients who are not able to involve the police force. There is a total of 9 books in the series published between the years 2007 and 2015. The first novel of the series was published by the Severn House Publishers in the year 2007. It was published under the title ‘False Charity’ and introduced the primary character of Bea Abbot as a widowed woman and the operator of the detective agency, the Abbott Agency. The plot of the novel is set in a mysterious town and revolves around the lives of the main characters Bea Abbot, Max Abbott, Coral Payne, Oliver Ingraham, Hamilton Abbott, Noel Briggs, Nicole Abbott, Lena Summers-Briggs, Sandy Weston, Maggie the assistant, Velma Weston, Piers, etc. In the opening sequence of the plot of the novel, Bea Abbot is introduced as newly widowed. She is required to decide about the fate of the business of her deceased husband, an exclusive detective organization that specializes in handling domestic issues.