There's something in the air-conditioning...What if you could keep your youth? If someone you knew was terrified of aging, and you'd invented the hormone, would you give it to them? Even if it meant discovery would cause you to lose your chance of wi...
Tea Party Teddy is a political tell-all novel about Sacramento, California politics - the public corruption, infidelity, and greed. Teddy, a newly elected Assemblyman, is elected because of his hateful anti-immigration platform. When he gets to Sacra...
A woman hiding out in Provence. A handsome police art detective. Boy meets girl. Simple, right? Not this time.He's looking for stolen California paintings reportedly for sale in Provence. She's trying to stay under the radar. Both share a love of foo...
What happens when Bob Silva, who is married to the ex-wife of Tea Party Teddy, decides to run for the California State Assembly against the Reverend Jim Thurston, a devoted Tea Party member? Will Reverend Jim seek revenge for the death of his friend,...
The last thing Maria expected when she returned to the United States from France was to be arrested at the airport. Is she fated to spend the rest of her life in prison?Follow the loveable yet eccentric private investigator, Slade Kelly, (a readers' ...
Her goddaughter's life seemed perfect. It wasn't.This is the first book in the Cedar Bay Cozy Mystery Series by a USA Today Bestselling Author. and Amazon All-Star.The residents of Cedar Bay come to Kelly’s Koffee Shop for breakfast, lunch, and lot...
Jeff Black was never going to be named Cedar Bay Citizen of the Year, but does that justify murder?It’s not as if no one wanted Jeff dead. He had enemies. There were a lot of people who didn’t want to see his property turned into a commercial hot...
Everyone has secrets. Even a wine-making Zen Master.What could possibly go wrong at a beautiful Oregon vineyard overlooking the ocean? Is the White Cloud Retreat Center on the vineyard, run by a world famous Buddhist Zen Master hold a deep, dark secr...
A wedding. A murder. The two shouldn't go together.After a long courtship, Kelly, the owner of Kelly’s Koffee Shop, and Mike, the county sheriff, finally get married. Their honeymoon is cut short when Jesse, the owner of the local wine store is mur...
A murdered mayor’s wife. Facials gone bad. Secrets at the spa.Liz, a widow, feels she’s been given a second chance at life by owning a successful spa located in a beautiful area on the Pacific coast north of San Francisco. The fact she’s found ...
Kelly has reluctantly agreed to cater a dinner party for her friend Sophie Marchant in Portland’s popular Pearl District. Unfortunately, the guest of honor, Donatella, is found murdered the day after the dinner party. Who did it? The arrogant newsp...
Secrets can have unintended consequences. Even Nerdie Birdie's.Liz Lucas, the owner of the Red Cedar Spa, hires an intern to help her. Only days before graduation, his car crashes over a cliff and into the ocean. Was it suicide or murder?Who would ha...
Living in Calico Gold is good. Having your aunt murdered because a number of people want her ranch is not.Kelly and her husband, Sheriff Mike, take a trip to the small town of Calico Gold, California, after his elderly Aunt Agnes calls and tells him ...
How would you feel if you drew the Death Card from a Tarot deck?Seth, the bumbling and incompetent police chief of Red Cedar, calls Liz and asks her to help him solve the murder of his deputy, Leroy. He’s worried he might be a suspect because Leroy...
Cooking is nourishing. Murder isn’t. Kelly and her husband, Sheriff Mike, take a belated honeymoon and travel to a cooking school in Tuscany. The day after they arrive, they learn that the owner of the cooking school, has been murdered. Follow Kell...
Could you commit murder to complete an antique set? Looks like someone did!Marty's a recently divorced antique and art appraiser who moves from the Midwest to live with her sister in High Desert, California, just outside of Palm Springs. Since their ...
A murder. A wedding reception. Not a good start to wedded bliss.Plenty of quirky suspects including the wealthy rancher who’s still in love with the best man’s wife, the smarmy minister who ran against him for county supervisor in the recent elec...
What price do you put on a collection that can only be sold on the black market? Was the old desert rat murdered for his?Randy Jones had a secret collection of Native American artifacts he needed to be appraised immediately. But how do you put a pric...
Another page-turner from USA TODAY bestselling author and seven time Amazon All Star Author. Cuba - a land of classic cars, beautiful beaches, salsa music, and the best cigars in the world. As diplomatic relations between Cuba and the United S...
An endangered butterfly. Is it worth murder?When the Lotis Blue butterfly, an endangered species, is sighted in a forest where logging operations are being conducted, it sets off a chain reaction in the small town of Red Cedar, California which resul...
What would you do if you were boarding your champion Yorkshire Terrier at a kennel and she became pregnant by who knows what dog?Returning from Cuba, Sheriff Mike and Kelly get a call informing them that the owner of Doggie Love Kennel, where they ha...
An editor murdered. A midlife romance. A small-town writer with the pen name of Sexy Cissy. So who hated steamy novels enough to kill?The secret life of Kat, a widow, falls apart when her true identity becomes known, and she’s the one who finds her...
Were mollies and Fireball whiskey to blame for the celebrity chef's murder at the country music festival held outside of Palm Springs, California? The suspects at the top of the sheriff's list are Marty’s friends John, the owner of The Red Pony foo...
What could go wrong at The Big T Lodge, the most expensive and prestigious hunting club in the United States? Well, murder for starters!When Roger tells his wife, Liz, that they're leaving for Texas in three days for an unexpected hunting trip at the...
From USA TODAY bestselling author and seven time Amazon All Star author comes another page-turning murder mystery. What could go wrong at a world class fly fishing lodge in the charming town of San Martin de Los Andes, Argentina, home of gauchos, ...
Got a price point for committing murder? What about ten million dollars? Kelly, the owner of Kelly's Koffee Shop, and her husband, Sheriff Mike, fly to Virginia to see a friend receive her doctorate degree. What Kelly didn't plan on was becoming invo...
When a patient dies at your clinic, it may mean the end of your happy ever after dreams. Will she go back to her old friend, food, for comfort? Kat Denham, a popular author of steamy romance novels, has decided to write a book in a different genre. S...
Antiques, polo, and relationships. What do they have in common? Murder!Why was the Palm Springs polo club owner's fiancée, Pia, murdered? Old relationships, Mafia vendettas, and inheritances all play a part in this cozy mystery. Jack, the owner of a...
USA Today Bestselling Author and seven time Amazon All Star Author with her 11th book in the best selling Cedar Bay Cozy Mystery Series. When Maggie Ryan, a retired schoolteacher is murdered, and over thirty dogs are discovered living in her home, th...
Just the thought of being locked in a sauna and dying...When Nikki Evans is murdered in the sauna at the Serenity Hotel and Spa on opening day, Judy Rasmussen’s dream of owning a premiere hotel and spa in Calistoga, California, turns into a nightma...
A murdered guest at her first catering event? Definitely not good for DeeDee’s fledgling business. So much for post-divorce new beginnings.When Lisa, a well-known Seattle art gallery owner, is murdered at the event, shock waves ripple through the l...
Did the famous movie star fall off the cliff or was she pushed?The last thing Sheriff Mike needed in the final weeks leading up to his run for re-election was to have his wife, Kelly, discover the dead body of a famous movie actress. Join Kelly, Mike...
You have secrets. Everyone does, bre they worth murder?When DeeDee and her boyfriend, Jake, head to Whistler, British Columbia, to vacation, the last thing they expect is to become involved in a murder. Particularly when it’s her former neighbor an...
Could you murder your plastic surgeon if your facelift surgery didn’t turn out the way you hoped it would? What if a number of women who went to the same doctor all ended up looking very similar after their surgeries? Someone in the wealthy Palm Sp...
Wedding bells and murder. What a way to start a marriage!What would you do if your sister’s husband of twelve hours was a suspect in connection with his rich Uncle Vinny’s murder? And the rich uncle just happened to be a member of the Mob?DeeDee ...
She wasn't swimming in the wine vat, she was dead!Over 550,000 books have been sold by this two-time USA TODAY Bestselling Author. This is the 13th book in the popular page-turning Cedar Bay Cozy Mystery series.When Angela, the beloved award-winning ...
Ever hear of someone celebrating New Year’s Eve by committing murder? Well, it happened, and the killer is looking for DeeDee!That’s the situation DeeDee found herself in after the very successful New Year’s Eve party she catered for Dana, the ...
When a child is conceived and born after his father's murder, is that child a legal heir to his millions?Michelle’s pregnant with San Francisco millionaire octogenarian Bernie’s baby, but he’s dead, and a lot of people would like to see her dea...
Death by chocolate, but it's the wrong person. Meant for the ex-Mafia man or his bride, a food critic?Could it have been an act of jealousy by Al De Duco's ex-girlfriend, Kitten Knight, or an act of revenge by Mario Carlucci, a long-time enemy of his...
A dead judge, a college porn queen, & a castle in Kansas. Clearing her husband’s name is just part of the honeymoon.When the county judge is murdered and Kat’s District Attorney husband of far less than six months is not only a suspect, but now t...
The caterer had a photographic memory. The murdered art dealer had secrets. His wife had a lover. You’re in Provence, France, and happen to see the same painting for sale by the same artist your best friend just bought from a gallery in Seattle. Wh...
She picked the winning numbers. She won millions. Is that why she was murdered?And are the rich really that much different than you and me?When Marty’s wealthy new appraisal client is murdered, things get messy. Marty's husband is the lead detectiv...
Dead chefs can't cook!When Kelly finds the murdered body of Chef Jessup in the walk-in refrigerator at the historic Gearhart Hotel, she fills in as the head chef at the prestigious James Beard Dinner. She was only planning on being the sous-chef.Join...
Men, Mobsters, and Murder! Poor Maureen. Was she just collateral damage?She had an ex who wanted to reconcile, a chef she’d broken up with, and a salesman from Kansas who’d fallen in love with her. Her brother-in-law had ties to the Mafia as well...
It was just a doll, wasn't it? It didn't have powers, did it? Powers that could kill?New Orleans is famous for its pralines, beignets, jazz, Bourbon Street, and the French Quarter. But there’s a darker side to the Big Easy, one that involves voodoo...
When you’re the head of the Sex Therapy Department at a university, and you find out your husband has been having an affair, actually a lot of affairs, it’s not a good day.How can you continue to counsel people about their marriage when you’ve ...
Food porn can be addictive, but is it worth murder?When her food photographer is murdered, the police ask Cassie's husband, ex-Mafia man, Al, to help. Al’s ways of solving murder don’t always follow police procedurals.A cozy mystery that leaves y...
He was a Pulitzer Prize winning publisher. She was a celebrity newscaster. Someone hated one of them enough to commit murder.Kat’s shocked when she’s asked to help solve the murder but it looks like her daughter may be marrying into the decedentâ...
Sheriff Rich got the call every lawman dreads â€" a relative’s murder. And it’s even worse when it’s your sister.Brigid moved back to Cottonwood Springs to be with friends and family when her marriage and her publishing company both ended. When...
All Camille wanted to do was build a museum in the desert. Too bad someone didn’t agree, and she was murdered. But was it for the land or her millions?That property was prime desert land. A lot of people wanted it. The Tortoise Lady, the Mafia inve...
A troubled woman. A prayer. A murder in a church. An orphaned daughter.When she moved back to Cottonwood Springs after a divorce and the publishing company she was working for went bankrupt, Brigid never thought she’d have a ready-made teen-age dau...
Winery owners murdered in Sonoma, California. A serial killer on the loose. What’s the connection? Wiho's next?A desperate call from a Sonoma County sheriff Kelly and Mike have helped before leads them to a winery guest house in Sonoma and then on ...
A woman’s dream, a warning, a murder, but it's the wrong person.When a mistaken identity murder happens at her sister’s bookstore in Cottonwood Springs, Brigid has no choice. She has to find the person who intended to murder her sister.Not everyo...
Things aren’t always what they seem. Like, what could possibly go wrong on a vacation in the Cayman Islands â€" a Caribbean haven with beautiful women, plenty of rum, mouth-watering seafood, duty free shopping, and some of the best scuba diving and...
Florence, Italy, and a wedding. Sardinia, Italy, and a murder. Is there a choice?For Kat and Blaine, there wasn’t. A romantic trip to Florence to take part in a wedding becomes a search for the groom’s best friend’s murderer in Sardinia. If you...
A prison guard. A postmaster. A Forest Service employee. A U.S. Department of Agriculture employee. All murdered. They worked for the federal government, but so do a lot of other people. What else did they share?Seems like a serial killer is on the l...
Human trafficking in the small Colorado town of Cottonwood Springs? That only happens in the big cities, right?Planning a wedding is hard enough without having your florist disappear. And it’s even worse when there’s a chance that people engaged ...
Kat only wanted to be part of the convention on how to write successful books, not solve a murder that took place there â€" the murder of a beloved “tell-all†author. Was that the motive?Greed, revenge, and hatred are also reasons to murder, at l...
Al’s past is catching up with him...40 years in the mob and karma has his number. He’s a marked man, but a tip-off buys him some time. Can he catch his would-be murderer before they catch up with him? It’s a game of cat and mouse...will Al live...
If you loved Nancy Drew, you don’t want to miss the debut novel in the Holly Lewis series by two-time USA Today Bestselling Author, Dianne Harman.Family secrets. A murdered mother. An estranged aunt. A diary. A vandalized high school.Holly knows no...
A honeymoon. A murdered body. Unfortunately, the victim didn’t survive the Alamo. While visiting San Antonio, Texas on their honeymoon, Brigid and Linc discover the body of an Alamo tour guide.Brigid can’t resist solving a crime and with a little...
An aging American idol. A murder. A dog with paranormal abilities. Walking to the mailbox can be deadly, but sometimes things aren’t what they seem.Join Marty and her dog, Patron, as they eliminate suspects in the murder of a beloved rock star in P...
A review from the first book in the series, Holly and The Framed Friend: “If you grew up reading and loving Nancy Drew books, as I did, you will love this book. It brought me back to the days of childhood when I loved to curl up with Nancy and her ...
An invitation to take a truck ride.A dead body at the truck stop.She'd entered a world as alien to her as outer space.Little did Kelly know when she accepted an invitation from her son’s old friend to accompany him while he ran his route, that sheâ...
A broken tree branch.A dead body.An ambitious personal assistant.An unfaithful husband.Was it murder or simply an unfortunate accident?A lot of people resented Amelia Prescott, the grande dame of marketing agencies, because of her success. But did so...
Success can be a powerful motive for murder.Particularly when a man is only twenty-four years old and has made millions.But maybe it was revenge, greed, or his extramarital affairs.When Connor, the boy wonder, rented out the entire Red Cedar Lodge an...
Marie Moorhead looked like a million bucks, even at the age of eighty-four. In Hollywood, you never outgrow the need to prove your relevance.Too bad she was murdered on the eve of her book launch.Marie knew secrets about everyone in Hollywood. And wh...
What if your kitchen cabinets were bare?No food.Could you steal from the church to feed your family?When Missy, the pastor’s wife, discovers missing food from the church’s food pantry, she asks Holly to help find out who did it, so the church can...
A botched murderAt a very exclusive clubChief of police â€" case closedSeriously?Marty’s discovery leads her to do the “right thing,†seek out the would-be murderer. Revenge, greed, hate, love, and vices provide plenty of motives. But just whic...
Free from prisonNot free from the people who got him thereA clean ex-drug dealerA threat to those who are still dealingKidnapping and attempted murderAre just a few of Mike Loomis’ problemsJoin Brigid, Sheriff Davis, and Deputy Lindsay as they try ...
When the curtain falls, the show is overUnfortunately, it was opening nightAnd when it fellIt was definitely over for Angel Bridges!Affairs and jealousy, not to mention old resentments, are all good motives for murder. But just which one brought the ...
A missing dog.A heartbroken young man.Stolen out of anger or affection?Or to be put at stud?After all, the Shar-Pei was a beauty and worth a lot of money!When Wade’s dog goes missing, Holly and the sheriff’s department join in the search. But is ...
A man falls overboard and dies in the bay.Was it an accident or a calculated murder motivated by a changed inheritance? Unfaithful spouses? Revenge?When the dead man is Sheriff’s Mike oldest friend and one of the heirs is his goddaughter, he has to...
Days away from a grand openingA long-awaited vision about to come trueIs thwarted by a computer hackerWhen it works, modern technology is miraculousWhen someone knows how to abuse itIt can mean the end of a dreamBrigid and Linc are clueless when it c...
A charismatic Oracle who promises miraclesBut only if you’re willing to give moneyA naïve young man who wants to belong to somethingAnd is ready to done his hard-earned moneyConvincing someone who’s drinking the “Kool-Aid†that they’re bei...
Ever consider betting $25,000 on a poker hand? High rollers at an exclusive card room in a Palm Springs casino doAnd when the same person wins night after nightThat person becomes a threat to their livelihoodA threat that needs to be taken care of â€...
An obnoxious guestWho was abusive to his wifeA marriage in troubleSomeone thought he should be murderedAnd he wasBrett reminds Linc of a time when he could have prevented an abusive spouse from hurting his wife, a close friend, and he’s always regr...
Cecil Boatwright-Jones was the epitome of a crotchety old manSo crotchety he was murderedAfter all, when you’re worth millionsAnd you won’t spend a dimeOn your run-down English manorOr your familyOr anything elseMaybe murder is the answerBut itâ€...
If you liked Nancy Drew , you'll love Holly!A surprise party at a churchTo celebrate her aunt Fiona’s success as a fashion designerStreamers, banners, and foodAll destroyed on the night before the partyWho did it and why?When the party Holly has ca...
The war hero returns homeWith his dog, WickedBoth have been injuredTheir welcome should be pretty straightforwardBut not everyone likes a war heroMaybe Kelly’s son, Cash, should have stayed in AfghanistanAt least there he knew who the enemy was!All...
Former cop Michael Hessop arrives in Red Cedar with a mission - track down a teen girl named Delaney Sparrow and the predator who convinced her to run away from her family. He finds out about Liz Lucas' reputation for being an amazing amateur sleuth ...
A computer app that was going to bring in millions,Developed by four young techies,The founder of the group is murdered,But was it murder or a burglary gone terribly wrong?Even though Liz vows not to become involved in the case, when the new chief of...
When things turn up missing at the campground, things that wild animals aren't likely to carry off to a hiding place, it looks like a human must be involved. But why would a human want to steal a glittery hairbrush, the first of a number of items sto...
If students are afraid to look at their phones when they receive a text message, it means one thing. There's a cyberbully on the loose.Do you remember the old playground bully from elementary school? The one you tried to avoid at all costs? Well, cyb...
It was supposed to be an ideal summer, the last carefree one for four teenagers who were all going separate ways after high school graduation. But it's ruined by a single act of vandalism - the word CHEATER keyed into the side of a truck.All Holly wa...
Morgan made it her business to know everyone's secrets.Then she used those secrets to commit blackmail.The blackmail money was good and allowed her to live way beyond her means.But whoever thought she'd be murdered at a bingo night fundraiser!Paying ...
A woman is murdered.A cuckold husband is the prime suspect.But a jury's verdict is not guilty.How can that be?It was no secret that Sophia Reilly had lovers, a lot of them, and always had. Her husband, Eric, decided to go to a remote fishing shack to...
A murdered woman.An antique Art Deco necklace.A reason to celebrateAnd a reason to mourn.The future couldn't have been brighter now that Joan had sold her business and had planned an around the world trip with her husband. With the sale completed, sh...
They were consumed with worries about aging. They woke up terrified thinking of the future.They worried about body scars.They wanted to be successful.And four of them were ready to murder for the product!But this was not an ordinary product. It was a...
When a thirty-one-year-old school custodianHas a romantic relationship with a high school senior,It may be legal, but people think it's sleazy and wrong.Wrong enough that someone killed him because of it?Attending Holly's high school graduation is a ...
A redecorated dream house.A bottle of wine.A dead designer.But did the murderer kill the wrong person?When the new owners arrive to meet the designer they hired in the small town they've just moved to for a reveal of what she's done with the house, t...
A dead man is found in the backseat of his own car.A medical emergency? Or something far more sinister? Like murder? And he was a recovering addict. Could he have overdosed on drugs?That's what Brigid and Sheriff Davis need to find out when they begi...
When Cooper Hudson, a successful Seattle businessman, is suddenly investigated by the police for the death of a college friend, Javier, from many years ago, he's forced to revisit past events and relationships.There was a painful breakup with Juliana...
What Father Brown hadn't counted on was that the penitent would tell him exactly how she was going to murder Nikki Rice and when and where.In many states, if someone is threatened or their life is in jeopardy, doctors, lawyers, psychiatrists, school ...
Is Nicole, a young college girl, alive or dead? When the police are contacted, they feel she just needed to take a little break, and that's why she's gone missing. But a well-known television news anchor feels there's more to it than that, and when s...
When a woman is grieving the loss of her husband at a young age, the last thing she needs is to find is a dead body in the attic.Della Fox's husband never came home from his early morning run and never would. He'd been killed by a motorist. It's been...
Two women were threatened with blackmail and death if they didn't do what the mysterious voice on their phones told them to do. Both refuse to comply with the caller's demands, and now their deaths are almost a certainty.The voice told Willow the nud...
Just the thought of a cave is scary.You know, one with utter blackness and full of bats.But what about a dead body?Now, that's really scary!When Della attends a dinner party given by the new owners of a cave in the scenic Ozark Mountains, she's reall...
Della told Jim she needed a fence for her garden.It seemed like an innocent enough request.Until she found him lying dead next to the partially built fence.Della's carefully tended garden was being ravished by the local animal population, which was w...
When Dani Rosetti, a world-famous celebrity chef, was hired to cater a gourmet dinner party in Santa Fe, New Mexico, it sounded heavenly. The guests scheduled to attend were some of the wealthiest Native American art collectors in the United States, ...
A romantic little trip away from home.A cabin with a murdered woman in it.So much for a carefree weekend!When Linc and Brigid decide to go to the mountains for a romantic getaway, the last thing they expect to find is a murdered woman in Cabin 3, the...
Della's sister, Sophia, comes to Clover to help Della discover why the FBI wants to investigate the hit and run case in which Della's husband was the victim, but the accident occurred over a year ago. Neither Della nor Sophia expect to help solve a p...
When Emmy award winning chef, Dani Rosetti, is asked by her long-time mentor to assist with the selection of a new chef-teacher for her cooking class at her castle in Florence, Italy, she has no idea how ill Signora Bruno is.She overrides her sixth s...
An inedible entrée in a Michelin Mexican restaurant that could have been lethal.Was it just human error or a deliberate attempt to injure the restaurant reviewer?When Dani is asked to be interviewed for a catering gig in Newport Beach, she plans...
Dani lands a dream gig catering for Nashville's music elite at Sienna Rivers' lavish plantation. But the star-studded dinner spirals into chaos when a famed artist meets a deadly fate.Lucky for Dani, her sous-chef doubles as a top-tier private invest...