Female Sleuth

Book #1 in the Forensic Handwriting Mystery Series:

Lindsey Alexander, publicist to the stars, was a ruthless, backstabbing manipulator, but when handwriting expert Claudia Rose is hired to examine her suicide note, she doesn’t find it so easy to write off, her former friend’s death.

IF YOU CAN’T TRUST YOUR FAVORITE TEACHER, WHOM CAN YOU TRUST?

Quinn McFarland is on the verge of living her best life. With exciting career plans, a loving husband, and dreams of a perfect future, everything seems to be falling into place. But when she’s asked to identify...

Book #2 in the Fudge Shop Mystery Series:

The first annual fudge festival and contest should draw national attention with celebrity chefs aboard. Everyone has a tasty time until a judge is found dead. What’s more, people are saying Ava’s fudge recipes are, well, fudged. The sheriff wonders if she...

An early snow gifts Fishers’ Harbor, Wisconsin, with a perfect setting for the holiday parade and an upcoming wedding for Ava’s best friend. Unfortunately removing snow from Main Street for the parade reveals the dead tax assessor with a knife in him—containing Grandpa Gil’s fingerprints.

Book #5 in the Fudge Shop Cozy Mystery Series:

The sheriff asks Ava to go undercover in Door County at a friend’s wedding—just the beginning of Ava’s sweet troubles. It’s the height of tourist season and suspects abound, but the sheriff has eyes on Ava’s own amour Dillon Rivers, her...

Book #4 in the Fudge Shop Cozy Mystery Series:

A taste of trouble is in the air when a group of well-heeled, fudge-loving women friends descend on Ava’s newly acquired and refurbished inn for a chocolate lover’s getaway. When one of the women turns of dead—and Grandpa is a prime...

Book #3 in the Fudge Shop Mystery Series:

Perfection is needed! The autumn harvest festival expects royal Belgium visitors. According to Ava’s grandpa, a famous 1860s divinity fudge recipe is hidden in a local historical church. When a fire in the church reveals the body of a murdered man,...

Book #1 of the Fudge Shop Mystery Series:

Helping a famous movie star should help Ava get her Door County fudge shop on the harbor of Lake Michigan up and running and please her grandparents, but when Rainetta Johnson chokes on diamonds hidden in the fudge, Ava’s road to success...

It's August 1873, and at long last, physician and winemaker Maddie Franklin Wilcox makes the journey home to her beloved native Boston. Her business is to deliver her ward and apprentice, Elena Ortiz, to the local women's medical school, and that also includes visiting her father, her sister and her...

When evil stalks the pueblo

It starts when the inheritance that Lavina Gaines was to receive is stolen by her brother Timothy. Then an old Indian healing woman is murdered. Winemaker and physician Maddie Wilcox wants to find the person responsible for Mama Jane's death, but is also occupied with...

Book #1 in the Old Los Angeles Series:

In Los Angeles in 1870, life was cheap and water could cost you everything. When the body of the water overseer, Bert Rivers, floats up out of her irrigation ditch, winemaker and healing woman Maddie Wilcox finds herself defending the town’s most...

The stage is set for a major undercover operation

Three students have been murdered on a university campus in Kansas. Sid Hackbirn, Lisa Wycherly, and their son Nick Flaherty are sent in as the Devereaux family to find the killer. The local police can’t know that the three students were...

It's October, 1870, and once again, violence erupts on the streets of Los Angeles. City Marshal William Warren gets into a gunfight with his deputy Joseph Dye, and is severely wounded. Fortunately, winemaker and physician Maddie Wilcox is on the scene to take care of the marshal. But the next...