Fall 1949 is scary but exciting for farm girl Gail Albright. When she begins junior high at the nearby town of Craigsburg, Gail has no idea of the struggles and friendships she will find.She's the butt of jokes made by class snob Veronica Holt and Ve...
THE TRUTH ALWAYS COSTS… Former CIA agent Phoenix Smith moves back to her hometown to recover from a career-ending injury. The suburbs are anything but peaceful, though, after a murder-suicide involving sheriff Boom Keyser. Boom's wife, Annalynn...
Former CIA operative Phoenix Smith goes with Acting Sheriff Annalynn Keyser to search for a missing farmer. They find him dead with a rifle at his side and a broken antler in his back. The women suspect a human framed a deer. Phoenix hunts for the de...
Staking out a country graveyard to catch vandals ex-spy Phoenix Smith and Acting Sheriff Annalynn Keyser respond to a neighboring county's urgent call. The old friends block an exit from an abandoned farmhouse where four bank robbers were spotted. Th...
Betsy walked slowly toward the edge of the bluff. A tall woman in a patched skirt stood there. An old shawl covered her head and shoulders. She carried a brown blanket tied into a bundle in her dark-skinned left hand. Betsy gasped as the river came i...
A young barmaid confessed to killing an attacker and setting a fire to conceal that. Months later her dying mother begs ex-spy Phoenix Smith to prove Sheriff Annalynn Keyser’s late husband prompted a false confession. Only identifying the real kill...
North Missouri has seldom been snowier and the mysteries more perplexing than in Show Me the Sinister Snowman, the fifth novel in Carolyn Mulford's Show Me detective series. Was the ailing congressman's death an accident, suicide, or perhaps even ...