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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...

Book #2 in the Old Los Angeles Series: When the city marshal gets into a gunfight with his deputy, winemaker and physician Maddie Wilcox is on hand to care for the marshal’s wounds. Then the marshal is smothered in his bed the next morning, sending Maddie on the hunt for...

Book #3 in the Old Los Angeles Series: A night of chaos leads to more murders. It’s October 24, 1871, and violence errupts in Los Angeles. Eighteen Chinese men are lynched by a mob. Physician and winemaker Maddie Wilcox is glad that the three Chinese field hands she employs are...

They only thought they knew what they were getting into. It was September, 1982. Broke and desperate, Lisa Wycherly thought she was signing on as simply a secretary for wealthy freelance writer Sid Hackbirn. Okay, it was a live-in position, which was weird. But even though Lisa believed sex belonged...

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 another killer - the measles....

A reluctant PI with two hot cases... All Daria Barnes wants to do is produce plays, but can't make a living at it. So, her best friend, private investigator Berto Esparza, talks her into working for him as his associate investigating the death of Larry Ochoa, drummer for country-western star...

It doesn't mean they're not out to get you Lisa Wycherly and Sid Hackbirn find themselves up against a relentless enemy and about to get the shock of their lives in book nine of the Operation Quickline series. First, there's the wedding. Not Sid and Lisa's, but her cousin Maggie's,...

Finally, it's real love... Now what? Lisa Wycherly's surprise birthday party ends in a terrifying disaster when she's kidnapped off the street. Her partner, Sid Hackbirn, is so devastated that he loses his interest in sleeping around - the one thing keeping the two of them apart. The kidnapping gets...

Book #1 in the VanOps Thriller Series: DA VINCI CODE meets TOMB RAIDER in this award-winning thriller that #1 NYT bestselling author James Rollins called, “A book that defines ‘page-turner.'” Spain 1057: During a thunderous battle, the first King of Aragon wrestles Alexander the Great’s priceless Egyptian weapon from the...

Book #2 in the VanOps Thriller Series: DA VINCI CODE meets TOMB RAIDER in this multi-award-winning and #1 best-selling thriller that combines intrigue, history, science, and mystery into pulse-pounding action. A computer-app designer. An encrypted relic. Can she and the VanOps team decipher the dangerous code before extremists trigger a...

Aikido black belt Maddy Marshall is celebrating the completion of her black ops training when news of a military takeover in the South China Sea shocks the world because it was predicted by a sixteen-year-old French student. When intel chatter spells danger to Avril, the young seer, VanOps Director Bowman...

Book #1 of the Fudge Shop Mystery Series: New candy store owner Ava Oosterling specializes in making heavenly homemade fudge and fresh starts. But she’s just found out that her newest flavor is to die for. Between getting her store up and running and uneasily settling back into her charming...

Book #2 in the Fudge Shop Mystery Series: Candy shop owner Ava Oosterling mixes it up with a fudge judge with a grudge–who loses his life before he can pick a winner! … Ava is gearing up for the First Annual Fudge Festival–a huge celebration that could draw national attention...

Book #3 in the Fudge Shop Mystery Series: A recipe to kill for? It’s autumn in Fishers’ Harbor, Wisconsin, and fudge shop owner Ava Oosterling is busy preparing for the harvest festival and a visit from some royal relatives who live in Belgium. According to Ava’s grandpa, a famous divinity...

Book #1 in the Fudge Shop Cozy Mystery Series: A taste of trouble is in the air when a group of well-heeled, fudge-loving women descend on Ava Oosterling’s newly acquired and lovingly refurbished bed & breakfast inn for a chocolate lovers’ getaway. When one of the women turns up dead–and...

Book #2 in the Fudge Shop Cozy Mystery Series: Candy shop owner Ava Oosterling has her hands full when her best friend Pauline Mertens takes a summer job as a wedding coordinator–with the nuptials and reception scheduled in mere days in the back yard of Ava’s Blue Heron Inn overlooking...

Book #1 in the Mischief in Moonstone Series: When her pet reindeer, Rudolph, is stolen from the live animal display, first-grade teacher Crystal Hagan has a big problem on her hands. Her students fear that Christmas will be canceled. Ironically, the prime suspect is a man who lives in a...

Book #2 in the Mischief in Moonstone Series: When the men of Moonstone, Wisconsin, suddenly seem to be off fishing a lot in the evenings, thus cutting down on her new restaurant’s business, chef Kirsten Peplinski becomes suspicious. She discovers a topless touring boat has set up business in Lake...

Book #3 in the Mischief in Moonstone Series: On her second day of duty, new county deputy Lily Schuster finds herself smack dab in the middle of Moonstone, Wisconsin, trouble. She arrests archeologist Marcus Linden for trespassing, then finds she needs his help in solving the murder of a pie...

Book #4 in the Mischief in Moonstone Series: Three days before Halloween, Alyssa Swain finds a man dead in his car but, once she gets help, the body is gone. When scruffy, tall, dead man John Christopherson shows up alive on her doorstep, he insists she called him to help...

Alene Baron is 38 years old and over seven years divorced from her philandering husband. She lives in a Chicago lakefront high-rise with her three children and her 72-year-old father. She owns the nearby Whipped and Sipped Café, which serves decadent but healthful pastries and drinks. Alene’s pastry chef and...

When the owner of the business next door is found dead in his office, Alene Baron’s first feeling is relief. She’s been suspicious of the food supplements her neighbor has been selling, not to mention the smoothies he’s been hawking, which are much inferior to the ones Alene sells in...

Book #1 in the Harlow Brothers Mystery Series: Everybody loves Aunt Civility's etiquette books. However, no one but her secretary, Nicholas Harlow, has ever met the author. That's because the genteel, grandmotherly Aunt Civility is in reality his short-tempered older brother, Edward, who gives lectures as the official representative of...

Book #2 in the Harlow Brothers Mystery Series: Be careful what you wish for. It drives Nicholas Harlow nuts that his brother and employer, Edward, refuses to promote his Aunt Civility etiquette books to the public, instead opting to give lectures to like-minded societies. When Nicholas tricks him into a...

Book #3 in the Harlow Brothers Mystery Series: Mistaken identities, romantic rivals, and a host of misunderstandings. When Edward Harlow, ghost writer of the Aunt Civility etiquette books, is guest of honor at a costume ball for charity, the fun ends when his Zorro sword is discovered buried in the...

Frankie Chandler’s upcoming nuptials suffer a devastating setback when her fiancé, Detective Martin Bowers, is injured on the job. How badly injured? The doctors are mum on his condition, and his colleagues are just as evasive, telling her they don’t know what he was doing on the lonely hillside where...

Book #1 in the Frankie Chandler Pet Psychic Mystery Series: A murdered woman, a frightened dog, and a fake pet psychic who is in for the surprise of her life. When fake pet psychic Frankie Chandler is surprised by a message about murder from a frightened dog, she discovers her...

Book #2 in the Frankie Chandler Pet Psychic Mystery Series: What’s a pet psychic’s worst nightmare? A tarot card-reading aunt, a cranky cockatoo, and a very dead Blue-Ribbon Queen. Pet Psychic Frankie Chandler’s flaky Aunt Gertrude becomes the prime suspect after the newly appointed (and newly dead) Blue-Ribbon Queen turns...

Book #3 in the Frankie Chandler Pet Psychic Mystery Series: A wedding, an obnoxious shipboard entertainer, and a troupe of performing cats. What could go wrong? When Frankie Chandler boards an Alaskan cruise ship, she’s hardly a cheerful advertisement for sailing the ocean blue. Her best (and only) friend is...

Book #4 in the Frankie Chandler Pet Psychic Mystery Series: A broody hen. A dead body. The ultimate test of a relationship. Pet psychic Frankie Chandler finally (and reluctantly) agrees to meet Detective Martin Bower’s sisters. The weekend at his eldest sibling’s farm surpasses her worst nightmares. Then her first...

Book #5 in the Frankie Chandler Pet Psychic Mystery Series: A new fiancé, an old boyfriend, and a murder that will change everything. Frankie Chandler is finally at peace with her life. She’s engaged to Detective Martin Bowers, her pet psychic business is booming, and she’s overcome the emotional residue...

After the exorcism in Cherry Valley goes terribly wrong, Father Gerald “Mac” McAllister is left with bad memories and a secret he doesn’t dare reveal--a demonic attachment that he can’t seem to banish. Pulled off his exorcist duties, McAllister has been reassigned to provide religious instruction at an all-girl high...

Book #1 of the John Cabrelli Northern Lakes Mystery Series: A shattered career. A crooked lawyer. An unsolved murder. Seeking peace in the Northwoods is fraught with danger. Every night John Cabrelli relives the tragic events that ended his career and a young girl’s life. While struggling to find himself...

Book #2 in the John Cabrelli Northern Lakes Mystery Series: A missing federal agent, suitcases full of cash, a secluded cabin in the woods. Spider Lake is no longer the peaceful retreat John Cabrelli needs to recover from his gunshot wounds and start a new life. Knowing Cabrelli is a...

Book #3 in the John Cabrelli Northern Lakes Mystery Series: John Cabrelli, the interim sheriff of Namekagon County, is adjusting to his new role in the expansive rural landscape in Northern Wisconsin. When grouse hunters stumble upon a body in the backwoods, Cabrelli works to untangle the complex case, while...

Musky Run, the fourth book in Jeff Nania’s Northern Lakes Mysteries is coming March 21! Olympic medalist Anna MacDonald comes home to Namekagon County to emcee the Great Wilderness Race as predators stalk the Northwoods. While occasional interactions with potentially dangerous animals are old hat for most residents, this changes...

No way in. No way out. Who killed the party host? Follow the clues with Gwen in this present-day homage to locked room mysteries of the Golden Era in Milford Bed & Breakfast, book four in the Gwendolyn Strong Small Town Cozy Mystery Series Gwendolyn Strong is invited to a...

A mob enforcer taking control. A journalist murdered due to dangerous secrets. An investigator whose dedication to justice could cost her life. Philadelphia. Marsha O’Shea is eager to reclaim her mojo. So when the dedicated FBI agent receives intel on a Russian gangster consolidating power throughout the city, she digs...

Can disgraced FBI Agent Marsha O'Shea on administrative leave prevent her neighbor’s deranged ex-husband from shooting up a battered women's shelter? A perfect storm of domestic violence, untreated mental illness, and lax gun laws come together in the final deadly encounter. Can she prevent the next mass-shooting headline? If you...

The clock is ticking as FBI Agent Marsha O'Shea tries to stop a mass murderer before he kills again on the same exact date every year, 9/11. She and her trusted sidekick Ramit grind outside of normal channels to put together all the clues. She is ordered to avoid the...

Sixteen-year-old Irina Muldakova came to America to be a model, or so she thought. Can an injured and burned out FBI Agent, Marsha O'Shea and a young, honest police officer find her before she disappears again into an international sex trafficking ring run by the Uber-wealthy?

Twenty years ago, Sandra Jenkins, a law student in New Haven, CT, was brutally murdered. Her alleged killers were quickly apprehended. Case closed. End of Story. That was until new evidence exonerates them and a new investigation is begun, but not by the cops. An investigative journalist turned podcaster is...

Miami’s most wanted drug dealer is on the run, one step ahead of the cops. Young, newly married FBI agent Marsha O’Shea, working with the fugitive task force, has figured out how to draw him out of hiding. Will she get killed in the final showdown?

One deceased groom-to-be. One dead-end clue. One last chance at redemption. Gwendolyn Strong feels lost outside the classroom. And at loose ends after retiring, the ex-kindergarten teacher longs for the excitement her stable marriage and yoga sessions can’t provide. So the spirited fifty-something leaps into action when a former student takes...

Can you solve a 50-year-old homicide? How about two? When two dead bodies are found behind a fake wall in the basement of a pre-civil war era mansion, the grisly discovery rocks the world of centenarian Emelina Bidwell who believes her nephew and his wife left small town Milford fifty years...

Sift out the clues with Gwendolyn Strong. A nut allergy almost turns deadly at Milford’s daffodil festival. When former kindergarten teacher Gwendolyn Strong starts delving into the elderly woman's claim that someone is trying to kill her, little does she realize that the killer won't stop until they get what they...

Orphaned as an infant, sexually assaulted as a naïve college student, strong-willed, impulsive Lark Chadwick is vexed and trying to figure out what to do with her mixed-up life. When she discovers the body of the aunt who raised her, Lark goes on a search for answers. She is stunned...

Lark Chadwick is back. The scrappy reporter for The Pine Bluff Standard is embroiled in another tale of intrigue. WHILE DOING BATTLE WITH an unscrupulous real estate mogul—and against the advice of her friend and mentor Lionel Stone—Lark impulsively flirts with diverting her career into broadcast journalism. But, as Lark...

Just as young journalist Lark Chadwick is about to begin her new job on the cops and courts beat, she discovers the body of a strangled girl - the first victim of a serial killer. Lark's got the inside track, but there are complications: jealous rivals in the newsroom, her...

Gutsy reporter, Lark Chadwick once again finds herself at the wrong place at the right time: front-row center when the White House press briefing room is suddenly attacked. The president is missing, the first lady's life is at risk, and Lark's personal life is falling apart when the man she...

When popular First Lady Rose Gannon dies suddenly (and mysteriously) during an interview with White House correspondent Lark Chadwick, Lark is thrust into the midst of a media-bashing frenzy. Lark, still reeling from the death of her photographer boyfriend, finds herself covering a grieving president struggling with his pain while...

Book #1 in the Deep Lakes Cozy Mystery Series: Cozy up to a winter mystery set in snowy Wisconsin. Who killed the local pastor with an ice auger on Lake Loki? Join Frankie Champagne, baker, wine-maker and amateur investigative reporter, as she tracks suspects armed with delicious baked goods and...

Book #2 in the Deep Lakes Cozy Mystery Series: The promise of Spring in Deep Lakes, Wisconsin brings the community out of hibernation to plan the annual Roots Festival. Bubble and Bake owner Frankie Champagne just wants to help the Granite Mansion quarry heiress plan the keynote presentation. So, why...

Deep Lakes Cozy Mystery Series: Before Frankie Champagne encountered Deep Dark Secrets, her main concerns were baking tasty pastries and producing flavorful wines—along with charming her mother, of course. But with the town Christmas season in jeopardy, Frankie steps up to save the day, as only someone who doesn’t believe...

Book #3 in the Deep Lakes Cozy Mystery Series: Summer in Deep Lakes sprouts a homegrown murder on the O’Connor farm. Frankie’s hunt for clues lands her deep in sheep doo-doo, especially after rare stones surface in unexpected places. Crime-solving is no picnic for the baker/vintner as she hops from...

Grapes wait for nobody. The tourist season is running full swing when Frankie’s vineyard is ripe for picking, leaving her frazzled, as she divides her time between the Bubble & Bake shop and Bountiful Fruits winery. When a dead body surfaces in nearby Blackbird Pond, it quickly becomes an albatross...

“He gave me more freedom, if that’s possible, to be myself. Yes the world is a crazy place, but I’d finally found a way to fit into it.” Wilhelmina Green is the lawyer of choice for Chicago's wealthy offenders. Mina’s latest victory, the acquittal of a U.S. senator, has made...

Chicago’s hottest legal star is the lawyer of choice for wealthy offenders, but Mina’s courtroom victories increasingly conflict with her sense of right and wrong. When she can’t ease her guilt with her self-punishing extreme sport, she seeks to relieve it in other ways. Billionaire Jonathon Thomas Heun is happy...

Book #1 - A Sean McPherson Novel: When a sniper killed his partner, Sean McPherson was injured in the ambush. Now an ex-cop, he takes a job at a writing retreat in the Pacific Northwest. At Pines & Quill, he hopes to heal and put his life back together in...

Book #2 - A Sean McPherson Novel: Burdened by the pressing weight of survivor’s guilt, Sean McPherson, an ex-cop, is desperate for redemption. At Pines & Quill, a writer’s retreat in the Pacific Northwest, he and his fiancée, Emma Benton, are planning their lives together. He wants to go back...

Book #1 - A Gabriel McRay Novel: High in the Santa Monica Mountains grisly murders are taking place. On each of the victim’s bodies a note is left for Sheriff’s detective Gabriel McRay. The killer’s identity lies in the suppressed memory of a horrific trauma from Gabriel’s childhood.Teamed with his...

Book #2 - A Gabriel McRay Novel: "Stevens has once again brought us to the edge of our seats with her gift for psychological suspense" -Suspense Magazine From the enclaves of the super rich to the kinky underbelly of Los Angeles, women are turning up dead. Detective Gabriel McRay is...

Book #3 - A Gabriel McRay Novel: "A taut thriller with complex characters and an unforgettable villain" -Kirkus Reviews Troubled homicide detective Gabriel McRay confronts his nemesis Victor Archwood at the killer's trial. A surprise twist during the proceedings sets a course for Archwood to claim the ultimate revenge on...

Book #4 - A Gabriel McRay Novel: Los Angeles Detective Gabriel McRay investigates a cold case from 1988 involving a missing teenager named Nancy Lewicki. Evidence is sparse and Gabriel has no leads. Much to his dismay, a celebrity psychic, Carmen Jenette, hypes the unsolved case on her television show....

Kindle Vella, read episode 1-3 free. When the devil answers lonely Jake's ad for a roommate, both Jake and the devil get more than they bargained for!

Deputy Mattie Cobb and her sister, Julia, travel to Mexico to visit their mother, but when they arrive, they discover that she and her husband have vanished without a trace. Back in Timber Creek, Mattie finds a chilling note on her front door telling her to look for “him” among...

Book #1 in the Timber Creek K-9 Mystery Series: When a young girl is found dead in the mountains near Timber Creek, Officer Mattie Cobb and her K-9 partner Robo must track down the killer. With help from veterinarian Cole Walker and his daughter, Mattie uncovers hometown secrets that place...

Book #2 in the Timber Creek K-9 Mystery Series: Threatened by the first blizzard of the season, Deputy Mattie Cobb, her K-9 partner Robo, and veterinarian Cole Walker investigate the disappearance of Deputy Ken Brody’s sweetheart; but the hunters become the hunted when they find themselves caught in a killer’s...

Book #3 in the Timber Creek K-9 Mystery Series: Deputy Mattie Cobb and her K-9 partner Robo find a missing girl dead on Smoker’s Hill behind the high school. Before they can catch the killer, one of Cole Walker’s daughters goes missing, and Mattie and Robo must lead the hunt...

Book #4 in the Timber Creek K-9 Mystery Series: Colorado’s Redstone Ridge is a place of extraordinary beauty, but this rugged mountain wilderness harbors a horrifying secret. When a charred body is discovered in a shallow grave, officer Mattie Cobb and her K-9 partner Robo are called in to spearhead...

Book #5 in the Timber Creek K-9 Mystery Series: An explosion outside a community dance sends Mattie Cobb and Cole Walker reeling into the night, where they discover a burning van and the body of local outfitter. As the investigation ratchets up, Mattie and her K-9 partner Robo discover another...

Book #6 in the Timber Creek K-9 Mystery Series: A deluge floods the high ground near Hanging Falls, but heavy rains aren’t the only menace in Timber Creek. After Deputy Mattie Cobb and her K-9 Robo find a body floating at the edge of a lake, she delays her trip...

Book #7 in the Timber Creek K-9 Mystery Series: The past and present collide when Deputy Mattie Cobb and her K-9 partner Robo are torn between investigating her father’s cold case and the death of a young mother whose body is found near Timber Creek. As a deadly storm batters...

A compelling mystery/thriller by Nick Chiarkas If it moves away from you, it*s food; if it moves toward you, you*re food. The 1957 murder of an undercover cop in a New York City housing project has unexpected ties to the unsolved disappearance of a young father walking home in those...

In Weepers (Book 1), Angelo and his gang, with a bit of help from his beloved "uncle" Nunzio Sabino, defeated the notorious Satan's Knights. Now, in this standalone sequel to Weepers, it's 1960 and Nunzio is still the most powerful organized crime boss in New York City, protecting what's his with political...

In the heart of tranquil Brandywine Valley, Detective Parrott confronts a meth lab explosion, a dismembered corpse, and an intricate trail of secrets that shake up many lives -- including his own. When celebrity hostess Claire Whitman’s renovated barn explodes into flames, Parrott delves into the backgrounds and relationships of...

Quinn McFarland has grown up around dead bodies… Quinn’s always joked about death, but this summer, death stops being funny. For one thing, her brother finally undergoes transplant surgery. For another, Quinn’s estranged BFF—her “blood sister”—is brought into the family mortuary, bludgeoned to death. Quinn is haunted by the past,...

Someone comes to the party with murder in his heart and poison in his pocket. When old friends gather for a weekend retreat at a country mansion, no one anticipates how their lives will be changed—or that one of them will turn up dead. Remote and serene, the Campbells’ horse...

Welcome back to Brandywine Valley. The scenery is lush, the mansions are huge, and the secrets are deep. Detective Oliver Parrott’s next case takes us to the ancestral home of Blake Allmond, a renowned artist, whose paintings have been stolen from the studio on his property. Before Parrott can get...

When someone sets fire to Lincoln High and kills its new principal, chaos threatens to overtake the urban school. Assistant Principal Sally Pearce, hired by the deceased principal to help him revamp and change the culture, vows to carry on the mission. In doing so, she locks horns with fellow...

When Maddie McGuire lands an archeology internship at the Roman Baths in England, she assumes everything will go her way. But when this college sophomore discovers a severed human ear on her doorstep, she must solve its meaning before she becomes the next victim, or worse, gets deported. Her tentative...

Bar owner Una has no idea that breaking up a late-night brawl will lead to murder. Anxious to save her critically wounded mentor, she rushes headlong into a terrifying night of chases through the inky blackness of Arizona’s mountains. Her situation goes from unbelievable to horrific as she learns secrets...

The Malice Domestic anthology series returns with a new take on mysteries in the Agatha Christie tradition—original tales with a devilish bent! Included are: Rita Owen · Introduction Leah Bailey · A Killer in the Family Paula Gail Benson · Reputation or Soul M. A. Blum · Little White Lies...

A Desert Sleuths Anthology: The sun descends over the mountains and valleys of the Arizona desert. Under cover of darkness, evil flourishes. Not afraid of the dark? You will be. Desert Sleuths offer 20 tales in the latest edition of their award-winning anthology series. Grab a flashlight. Pull the covers...

The Malice Domestic anthology series returns with a new take on mysteries in the Agatha Christie tradition — 36 original tales with a culinary bent!

Murder for Dinner. Death for Dessert. Recipes To Kill For offers treasured recipes from the mystery writers of the Sisters in Crime Desert Sleuths Chapter plus celebrity guest authors—a collection you’ll not find anywhere else. From delicious meat and vegetarian main dishes, to Southwestern specialties, rich soups and stews, to...

The Malice Domestic anthology series returns with a new take on mysteries in the Agatha Christie tradition–original tales with a theatrical bent!

Oxford, England 1993. An awkward American grad student hits a gorgeous English undergrad with her bicycle. She’s embarrassed. He’s intrigued. They go their separate ways, but neither forgets. Chicago, Illinois 2013. Successful novelist Cress Taylor starts receiving anonymous threats that undermine her world. When a figure from her past turns...

Former MI6 operative, Max Grant, has created a new life in Chicago, heading up the cybersecurity arm of a global security company. He is also building a relationship with author Cress Taylor, the woman he has dreamed about for twenty years. But Max’s past is about to catch up with...

When Bay Bishop’s husband was found in the alley behind their Northern Michigan restaurant, she lost not only the partner in her dreams of establishing the best fine-dining establishment in the area but the man she thought was the love of her life. Then she finds out how he had...

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.

Book #3 in the Forensic Handwriting Mystery Series: 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 #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 #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...

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...

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...

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...

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 no longer ignore the voices.

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 persistent gossip of visitors and staff? Or are...

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,...

Litbop is an annual literary journal containing short fiction, poetry, art, and photography. This is the second issue, which touches on the theme of loss. Contributers this issue are: Alan Abrams, Andy Ball, Arvilla Fee, Cesar Conde, Christina E. Petrides, David A. Goodrum, Edward Michael Supranowicz, Emily Macklow, Eric Paul...

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...

Forensic scientist Sean McKinney has been asked by his daughter’s college roommate to help find her missing sister. It’s his daughter’s first year at Tulane, and single father McKinney is having a tough time adjusting to being an empty nester. He heads down to New Orleans to lend a hand...

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,...

When Fay Ramsey is found dead, Morgan Jewell’s entire world crumbles. Years later, Morgan is a homicide detective still haunted by the abrupt end to her best friend’s life. She’s failed to put the crooked puzzle pieces together. Nothing makes sense. The leads have run dry. Until she requests access...

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 your mom...

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 the...

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 tribe. As...