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These Hallowed Halls
A deadly amateur, a top-secret formula, and full mating plumage.
In the sixth Operation Quickline story, operatives Lisa Wycherly and Sid Hackbirn are sent undercover at a small arts college in Wisconsin with Lisa as an English professor and Sid as a student.. The job is to find out who…
Categories: Amateur Sleuths, Fiction, historical, general
Just Because You’re Paranoid (Operation Quickline Book 9)
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,…
Categories: Amateur Sleuths, Fiction, historical, general
Death of a Proper Bostonian
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…
Categories: Female Sleuth, Fiction, historical, general
Death of the Drunkard
One inoffensive drunkard. So many reasons to kill him.
A bold shooting ends the life of Mr. Hewitt, the buggy manufacturer on a cold night in December, 1872. Physician and winemaker Maddie Wilcox is particularly puzzled, since it was clear that Mr. Hewitt was soon to die of his own…
Categories: Amateur Sleuths, Historical
Amateur Theatricals (Operation Quickline Book 12)
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…
Categories: Cozy Mystery, Female Sleuth
The Room Where it Happened (Operation Quickline Book 14)
The job was a nuisance. The target was a disaster
Sid Hackbirn never knew his mother Sheila. When startling new evidence in Sheila’s murder shows up, Sid isn’t terribly interested until Stella, the aunt who raised him, becomes hellbent on finding out who killed her sister over thirty years…
Categories: Amateur Sleuths, Fiction, historical, general
Claiming a Body: Short Stories
The stories in Amanda Marbais’s Claiming a Body read like dispatches from a frontline strewn with infected relationships, metastasizing anxieties, and cultural fatigue. Propelled by sympathetic characters and assertive voices that both capture and convey a uniquely contemporary dread, these virtual confessions reveal life at its most negotiable: a woman overcomes…
Categories: Short Story Collection