The Old Los Angeles Series

Book #1 in the Circle of Nine Series:

Kindle Book Award Finalist, Readers’ Favorite Book Award Finalist, & Gotham Writers’ YA Novel Discovery Contest Finalist, B.R.A.G. Medallion Honoree

“Since I was a little girl I’ve been labeled a freak in my small town. There’s no blending in when...

Book #2 in the Circle of Nine Series:

Descended from a legendary Celtic tribe that guards the secrets of the ancient stone circles, the Quinn women have a great responsibility to protect their pagan rituals and way of life. As members of the formidable Circle of Nine, they celebrate...

Book #3 in the Circle of Nine Series:

Eric Hoffer Book Award Grand Prize Short List & B.R.A.G. Medallion Honoree

Brigit Quinn has survived a year full of both good and bad surprises after learning the truth of her unique heritage as a descendant of a powerful Celtic...

The danger was supposed to be over.
The sacred treasures are safe.
The enemies banished to the Otherworld.

But Brigit Quinn’s dreams tell a different story.

The condemned return to haunt her sleep—pleading, accusing, refusing to be forgotten. Something is still wrong, even if the rest of...

When the police rule her dad’s death an accidental overdose, 16-year-old Chloe refuses to believe it and vows to find his killer. Alone against a potentially corrupt, small-town police force, a persistent social worker seeking proof that she has adult supervision, and precariously low funds, Chloe learns that her dad’s...

Taking only what they can quickly pack, 11-year-old Mardella Houston and her mom secretly move away from her abusive, drug-dealing father to start a fresh life in the one-stoplight town of Haven, Minnesota. But Mardella’s sure she’s to blame—if only she hadn’t dialed 911, none of this would be happening....

Secrets weigh on you, no matter if you are a psychopathic killer or a seasoned homicide detective with trauma in your past. This debut novel by Tracey S. Phillips deserves high praise for its ability to show how we all share the same complicated needs and emotions, whether we end...

For 15-year-old Daphne Ann Post, the summer of 1976 at Lake Carlson should be filled with new friendships and carefree late-night parties. But something darker lurks beneath the surface—her chilling premonition that someone is going to drown.

Wishing she could escape the shadow of her fractured family and her...

A missing informant. A fragile undercover operation. A detective one misstep from losing control.
Detective Morgan Jewell is sent undercover to Pine Bluff, Wisconsin to investigate the disappearance of Jake Verninac—an informant who vanished days before delivering critical evidence. His last known contacts tie him to a local drug...

What if the dead aren't haunting you? What if they've come back to save you from the living? 
Since the accident that killed her husband, Quinn Saunders has been seeing things. A barn owl studying her from the yard. A photo falling with no one there to bump...

In the first book of The Backyard Model mysteries by TK Sheffield, a frugal fashion model hangs up her second-hand stilettos and returns to her small town to open a business—but then is forced to become an amateur sleuth after becoming a suspect in a murder.

Melanie Tower is done...

Litbop: Art and Literature in the Groove is an annual literary journal that publishes fiction, poetry, art, and photography. Every issue features work by a diverse group of creators from around the world. This, our fifth issue, is the first to include essays. Contributors for this issue include award-winning authors...

Litbop: Art and Literature in the Groove is an annual literary journal that publishes fiction, poetry, art, and photography. Every issue features work by a diverse group of creators from around the world. This, our fourth issue, showcases fiction and poetry from several Pushcart and Perkoff prize winners, cover by...

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...

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...

Ten members of the Blackbird Writers group, masters of crime and mystery novels, take flight, as they offer memorable characters and suspenseful plots. Gritty, cozy, modern, or historical, the stories in this anthology create page-turning intellectual and emotional puzzles that stimulate the mind and touch the heart.

Here are some...

Forensic scientist Sean McKinney hunts a serial killer who is targeting senior citizens associated with the 1930s era Barker-Karpis gang. But, getting justice for a wrongfully accused man means bucking the system and putting his life on the line. Will the trail of corpses left by the real killer include...

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...

Litbop is a literary journal containing short fiction, short-short fiction, poetry, art, photography, and cartoons. This first issue contains work by Carma Lynn Park, Catherine Jacobi, Christine Sneed, Crystal S. Rudds, D. Kosiba, Jennifer Worrell, Katherine Ace, L.C. Fiore, Lani T. Montreal, Libby Fischer Hellmann, Molia Dumbleton, Rachel L. Robbins,...

Litbop is an annual literary journal containing short fiction, poetry, art, and photography.

Litbop is a literary journal containing short fiction, poetry, art, and photography. This issue contains work by Amy Aracena, Anna Maeve, Bruce Parker, Carma Lynn Park , Claudia Tong, Cristina Vanko, David Heo, Douglas Colston, DS Maolalai,...

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...

Anything can happen when people are provoked, and nobody knows this better than the authors in the Blackbird Writers group. Ten suspense and mystery novel writers bring characters or settings from their novels to life in these captivating stories. Whether you love mysteries with baked goods or with...

Model Ghost, Book 3 of The Backyard Model Mysteries:

A fashion show at a senior resort results in a dead body on the runway. 

Former fashion model Mel Tower confronts the unfashionable parts of her past in this October mystery at a senior resort in her Wisconsin...

Cupid swaps arrows for scones in small-town comedy.

Cupid, a.k.a. Bart McGee, trades Mt. Olympus, Inc., for a simpler life in small-town Wisconsin to work as a matchmaker. But when he falls for a local baker, and his Olympus relatives descend, chaos ensues. The slow-burn romance is filled with...

Model Wave, book two of the Backyard Model Mysteries, is a beach read, a vacation mystery that's like taking a vacation in a book. Former fashion model Mel Tower travels to Northern Wisconsin for a date with a handsome sheriff. But, when a businessman is found murdered in a pontoon...

Book #1 in The Botanic Hill Detectives Mystery Series:

World-famous Egyptologist Dr. Winston Thornsley died suddenly two months ago in disgrace. His widow, Ida Thornsley, knows her husband was falsely accused of stealing an ancient burial urn he discovered in Egypt last summer, but local and federal law enforcement officers...

Book #2 of The Botanic Hill Detectives Mystery Series:

In 1945, Isabela de Cordoba’s great-grandfather, silent movie actor Lorenzo de Cordoba, mysteriously hid a legendary, multimillion-dollar emerald somewhere on the family’s sprawling estate. Nicknamed the “Green Curse,” the emerald is blamed for the family’s numerous, untimely deaths. Enter, the Botanic...

Book #3 of The Botanic Hill Detectives Mystery Series:

Objects of value have been disappearing from the Mayfield family’s rural California horse ranch. The Botanic Hill Detectives—Moki Kalani, Rani Kumar, and twins Lanny and Lexi Wyatt—are hired to come for a week to investigate.

Legend has it somewhere on the...

A Tahitian black pearl necklace, missing for over eighty years, takes the thirteen-year-old Botanic Hill detectives—Lanny, Lexi, Moki, and Rani—from California to Oʿahu in one of the squad’s most baffling cases yet!

The teens’ famous elderly neighbor Mr. Itsuki Yamada hires them to find his family’s valuable heirloom necklace. Soon,...

Lenore Valentine Kirby’s cryptic gravestone in a derelict cemetery beckons across centuries.

The four Botanic Hill Detectives—Lanny, Lexi, Moki, and Rani—stumble upon a mystery revealed by the deceased woman’s descendant, Mr. Nigel Kirby. Can the teens decipher Lenore Kirby's gravestone image and messages? Their unusual, present-day case, incorporating the life...

Botanic Hill series book #6.

A fearless quartet of teen sleuths, the Botanic Hill detectives, travel to Llanfair, a fictitious Welsh village in present-day California, to solve the mystery of the Shocking Specter. The green-glowing apparition reportedly roams the countryside, setting fire to buildings and meadows during the new moon....

The Wild West Californio days have returned with a vengeance in this confounding, present-day mystery!

Our teen detectives return home to Las Palmitas, California, from solving a mystery abroad. Their neighbor, Señor Antonio Del Castillo, owner of one of the original Spanish land grant

Book #7 of The Botanic Hill Detectives Mysteries Series.

The detectives travel to England, hoping to find the notorious pirate One-Eyed Jack’s 1720s captain’s logbook at Crow's Nest Grange, the former manor house of the extinct earls of Stowesbury. The unexpected awaits: pirate tales, the cellar's chilling discoveries, missing treasures,...

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.

Book #2 in the Forensic Handwriting Mystery Series:

Annabelle Giordano, a troubled fourteen-year-old, becomes an important person in handwriting expert Claudia Rose’s life, and the chief suspect in a horrific crime.

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

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.

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...

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...