Suspense
The Outcasts
Two best friends. One strange blue light. A secret world waiting just beyond the woods. When best friends Ogden "Og" Carter and Iggy Lumaban head down to the creek one afternoon, they expect mud, turtles, and maybe a little trouble. What they find instead is something impossible-a floating blue light...
The Song of the Bees
After his older brother is arrested, James is sent away from Chicago to rural Wisconsin to live with a grandmother he barely remembers-a reclusive old lady who keeps bees, studies the marsh, and fills her cabin with skulls, plants, and scientific equipment. With no friends, no phone signal, and no...
Kiddieland and other misfortunes
In his first short story collection, Tim Chapman explores behaviors that are at once familiar and bizarre, while introducing us to an odd assemblage of characters. A reformed hit man has to kill to save the love of his life. An advertising executive deserts her family to find happiness as...
The Blue Silence: Murder New Orleans Style
In "The Blue Silence," forensic scientist Sean McKinney faces one of his toughest challenges yet when he's called upon to help find his daughter's missing college roommate. Struggling to adjust to being an empty nester, McKinney travels to New Orleans to investigate, but when his own daughter is kidnapped, he'll...
The Lies Between the Lines: A Claudia Rose Novel
Handwriting doesn’t lie. But people do.
Forensic handwriting expert Claudia Rose takes on two new cases: a forged signature in a troubling auto theft investigation, and a young woman desperate for help after her uncle receives a series of anonymous, threatening notes.
As Claudia examines the handwriting...
What She Saw
Book #1 in the Beyond the Veil Mystery Series:
Imagine waking on a train with no recollection of how you got there, no idea who you are…no name, no memories, no life. All you know is, you cannot tell anyone. When this young woman runs into someone who knows her...
Dead Write
Dating habits of the rich and feckless—Claudia Rose meets Baroness Grusha Olinetsky who runs an expensive dating club where members are dying to get in.
Book #3 in the Forensic Handwriting Mystery Series
Proof of Life
Book #2 in the Beyond the Veil Mystery Series:
After recovering from amnesia five years ago, Jessica Mack never told anyone she had started hearing voices from the spirit world. Now, forced to use her “gift” to help find missing four-year-old Ethan Starkey, she can...
The Last Door: Beyond The Veil
Beyond the Veil book #3
When identical twins inherit a Victorian mansion from a stranger, the bequest changes everything they knew about their past.
The house at Herron Pond is no stranger to tragedy. Accidental death. A devastating fire. Suicide.
Are the reports of supernatural activity the...
Last Writes
Book #4 in the Forensic Handwriting Mystery Series:
Time is running out for a missing 3-year-old in a religious cult. Handwriting expert Claudia Rose, one of the few outsiders to be invited inside the Temple of Brighter Light, must hurry to uncover their secrets before a terrifying prophecy is fulfilled.
Inkslingers Ball: A Claudia Rose Forensic Handwriting Mysteries 5
Book #5 in the Forensic Handwriting Mystery Series:
Explosive drama erupts when the life of a teen with a tortured past is jeopardized by her secret tattoo. Handwriting expert Claudia Rose joins forces once again with Detective Joel Jovanic, who is investigating a firebombing, a young woman found dead in...
Outside the Lines
Book #6 in the Forensic Handwriting Mystery Series:
After being attacked in court by a defendant, a traumatized Claudia (handwriting expert) accepts an invitation to lecture in the UK. There, she gets in trouble with New Scotland Yard and the FBI (local office) when she becomes acquainted with a guy...
Written Off
Book #7 in the Forensic Handwriting Mystery Series:
When handwriting expert Claudia Rose travels to Maine to interview convicted serial killer Roxanne Becker, she learns a shocking secret about a group of grad students dubbed “Maynard’s Maniacs.” Was Professor Maynard—herself brutally murdered—conducting unethical research that turned deadly? Swept up in...
Dead Letters
Book #8 in the Forensic Handwriting Mystery Series:
Eighteen-year-old Monica has lived a sheltered life. Joining an archaeological dig in Egypt was a dream come true, and romance an unexpected bonus. But when she goes missing with an archaeologist whose shady past spills into the present, the desperate search takes...
Maximum Pressure
When forensic handwriting analyst Claudia Rose attends her high school reunion, she doesn’t expect to stumble over the body of someone she knew. Was it an accident, or something more sinister? As she aids an old flame who is making a documentary about the mysterious disappearance of a classmate, Claudia...
A Murder of Principal
When someone sets fire to Lincoln High and kills the new principal, chaos threatens to overtake the urban school. Assistant Principal Sally Pearce, hired to help the deceased principal revamp the culture, vows to carry on the mission. In so doing, she locks horns with fellow staff members and faces...
The Return
Aiden Baylor loves the forest surrounding his small mountain town. Alone amidst nature, wondrous ideas fill his head—fantasies and words of wisdom. His neighbors think he's crazy. In the near-future world, entirely dependent on automation and artificial intelligence, people have lost all imagination and intuition. When a global war destroys...
The Women Who Stand Between
Julia Wilde is one of the best wildlife cinematographers in the business. But while on location in southern Africa, she finds herself unfairly blamed for an accident that leaves several crew members dead. Blacklisted by the movie industry, she takes a job in the film department at a Midwestern university...
Depth of Field