All's Well That Ends

by Gillian Roberts

  “A long while,” Sam said.

  “Use it for good—or go crazy and blow it. Consider it your fee—a gift of thanks—for finding out what happened to Phoebe.”

  I shook my head. “I barely did. I really can’t!”

  “You have to! Giving it to you makes me feel like Queen Isabella, sending you off on your great adventure. Find the new world, you two. Go!”

  And so we did. The auction is next month and the painting is being treated as if it were royalty. As if, in fact, it were a king’s treasure, which, apparently, it was.

  Phoebe would be so proud.

  “Happy New Year,” Mackenzie said again.

  It was a pretty sure thing.

  GILLIAN ROBERTS won the Anthony Award for Best First Mystery for Caught Dead in Philadelphia. She is also the author of Philly Stakes, I’d Rather Be in Philadelphia, With Friends Like These…, How I Spent My Summer Vacation, In the Dead of Summer, The Mummers’ Curse, The Bluest Blood, Adam and Evil, Helen Hath No Fury, Claire and Present Danger, and Till the End of Tom. Formerly an English teacher in Philadelphia, Gillian Roberts now lives in California. Her website address is www.GillianRoberts.com—and she enjoys receiving fan e-mail at Judygilly@aol.com.

  ALSO BY GILLIAN ROBERTS

  Caught Dead in Philadelphia

  Philly Stakes

  I’d Rather Be in Philadelphia

  With Friends Like These…

  How I Spent My Summer Vacation

  In the Dead of Summer

  The Mummers’ Curse

  The Bluest Blood

  Adam and Evil

  Helen Hath No Fury

  Claire and Present Danger

  Till the End of Tom

  A Hole in Juan

  ALL’S WELL THAT ENDS is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

  Copyright © 2007 by Judith Greber

  All rights reserved.

  Published in the United States by Ballantine Books, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.

  BALLANTINE and colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.

  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Roberts, Gillian

  All’s well that ends : an Amanda Pepper mystery / Gillian Roberts.

  p. cm.

  1. Pepper, Amanda (Fictitious character)—Fiction. 2. Philadelphia (Pa.)—Fiction. I. Title.

  PS3557.R356A78 2007

  813'.54—dc22 2006051088

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  eISBN: 978-0-345-49718-5

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