Pretty and popular Samantha Franco was found wandering barefoot on a deserted rural road by a local police officer. She was disheveled and disoriented, with mud and blood caking her jeans, and she had no memory of anything, including her name. She had disappeared with her best friend, Cassie, and Cassie was still missing. At first, Sam gained a lot of support from her friends and her boyfriend, Del, but as the memory loss continued and Sam became more compassionate and kind, the mean girls she and Cassie had ruled quickly turned on her. Read More »

Kala Stonechild has followed Detective Rouleau to the Kingston Police Department from Ottawa, and immediately finds herself in the middle of a murder investigation involving a counselor on a student crisis telephone line. Leah Sampson was brutally murdered after her shift at the crisis line, tortured and bound in her own apartment, and Stonechild and her new partner, Gundersund, have no leads. Rouleau is having some personal difficulties, having transferred to Kingston to care for his ailing father, yet he is still very much in charge of the investigation. Read More »

Kala Stonechild had recently transferred to the Ottawa Police department, and was assigned to a special unit designed to work closely with Major Crimes. The first case she worked on was the disappearance and murder of Tom Underwood, and she assisted with interviewing the family. Tom was planning a major life change, both professionally and personally, and to that end was making amends to his ex-wife, Pauline, and his son, Hunter. When Tom’s body was discovered in the trunk of his Read More »

When Mary and Sherlock return home from their travels to find a mysterious stone planted in their garden, they begin to believe that an investigation that was considered complete might not necessarily be as finished as they had once thought. Journey with them on a cruise that takes them to Japan, as well as introduces a most mysterious young woman into their company-a young woman who will alter their trip irrevocably. Read More »

Ava Trumble has always wanted to own the family mansion, and after her Aunt Lois’ death, she is left the house-–with one stipulation. Ava has to discover what had happened to Sarah Kerrick two hundred years earlier, and present the evidence to her attorney. If she fails to provide the proper verification, the house will go to the historical society. Ava will do almost anything to prevent that, so she calls a national television show and requests they investigate the house to help her solve the mystery. Read More »

Leaving Boston and moving to Savannah, her deceased brother’s favorite city, was a way for Brianna McNeil to start her life over. She found a beautiful house for rent in the historic district, and was concerned on her first night in the house when lights began to flicker on and off. Brianna had a special gift of communication with those who had passed on, and she was not sure if faulty wiring or someone wanting to contact her was the reason for the flickering lights. After checking the house with a butcher knife clutched firmly in her hand, she discovered a black pile of ashes in the bedroom closet. Read More »

Alex McKay does not see herself as being anything special. She is just a botanist studying plants, never mind that they are marijuana plants. When a storm breaks a window in her lab, she rushes out to ensure the safety of her plants and winds up changing the entire course of her life. A chance encounter with a group of men working in a biological weapons lab near her own leaves her fighting for her life. Read More »

Detective Oliver Tucker was a good cop, always determined to solve the case and get justice for those who were wronged. After his death, he continued on, as a ghost, helping his partner, Bear Braddock, solve cases and protecting his wife, Angel, to the best of his ability. Angel, formally Dr. Angela Hill-Tucker, was a history professor who had sponsored a black-tie charity fundraiser, and Tuck dropped in to see how it was going. Noticing a man across the room, dressed in the style of a 1930’s gangster, Tuck became suspicious when the gangster headed in the direction of Angel’s table. As Angel danced with one of her guests, he tried to catch up to his wife, who was also dancing, but before he could, he was shot and killed. Read More »

When a young British immigrant shows up looking for work, Dan and Rivka Sherman decide she is the perfect fit for the clerk opening at the Olde Victorian Bookstore. Had they known she’d crossed the Atlantic bent on ferreting out her mother’s killer, they might not have been so eager to hire her. But since she is here… what is the harm in helping a girl out, right? Read More »

The zany staff of Miracolo returns in the second installment of Miracolo Mysteries. Eve has been recruited by her cousin to teach at the local vocational school. She is looking forward to influencing the next generation, but when she gets there, she begins to wonder if they are a bunch of juvenile delinquents looking for easy grades. When she hires several of them to help with a dinner party being held by Maria Pia, her grandmother, Eve never dreams that murder will find the restaurant again. Read More »

Eve Angelotta had dreams and they did not include working for the family restaurant. When she is sidelined by an accident, she has no choice but to come home and be a chef in the family business. She and her grandmother do not always see eye to eye, but Eve does the best she can. However, when Eve discover’s her grandmother’s boyfriend dead in the restaurant, any disagreements she has with Maria Pia are minor. Her grandmother is the chief suspect and the staff of Miracolo has to work together to prove Maria Pia’s innocence. Read More »

Clay Willing returned to San Francisco after his brother’s murder in order to take Dean’s place in the family business. Clay, an artist, loved his unconventional life in New Mexico and his wife, Claire, whom he had met at Yale, but he accepted his family responsibilities. The building he and Claire chose to move into did not meet with his family’s approval, but they stood firm until someone broke in and attacked Claire, causing her to miscarry. Read More »

After hearing a noise downstairs, Tuck, a police officer, grabbed his gun and went to make sure his home was secure. Moving carefully from room to room, Tuck was certain the house was clear, until he got to his den and realized the desk light was on, his briefcase had been moved, and his backup gun was missing. Read More »

Twenty years ago, Tracy Crosswhite’s sister Sarah disappeared while driving home from a shooting competition in which she and Tracy competed. Sarah was driving Tracy’s truck, which was found abandoned on the county road, but there was no trace of Sarah. Tracy, now a Seattle homicide detective, was at work one day when she received news that a body had been found in the hills outside Cedar Grove, the little town where Tracy and Sarah had grown up. Convinced that it was Sarah’s body, Tracy makes the drive to Cedar Grove to find that her worst fears had come true. Read More »