Karen E. Olson

An Annie Seymour Mystery

1 - Sacred Cows (Sep-2005)
2 - Secondhand Smoke (Oct-2006)
3 - Dead of the Day (Nov-2007)
4 - Shot Girl (Nov-2008)

A Black Hat Thriller

1 - Hidden (Jul-2015)
2 - Shadowed (Jun-2016)
3 - Betrayed (Apr-2017)
4 - Vanished (Feb-2018)

A Modern Tudor Mystery

1 - An Inconvenient Wife (Apr-2024)

A Nicole Jones Mystery

1 - Hidden (Jul-2015)
2 - Shadowed (Jun-2016)

A Tattoo Shop Mystery

1 - The Missing Ink (Jul-2009)
2 - Pretty In Ink (Mar-2010)
3 - Driven to Ink (Sep-2010)
4 - Ink Flamingos (Jun-2011)

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  Sacred Cows
  

  • Sep-2005
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  An Annie Seymour Mystery - 1
  

  After a late night on the town, crime reporter Annie Seymour only wants to sleep. But a phone call from her editor drags her to a cold, wet New Haven street where she's soon staring at a murder victim who was a Yale student by day...and a high-priced...

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  Secondhand Smoke
  

  • Oct-2006
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  An Annie Seymour Mystery - 2
  

  Awakened by a loud commotion, New Haven reporter Annie Seymour wanders outside to discover a favorite Italian eatery engulfed in fire. Even more shocking is the bullet-ridden body found in the debris. Then things get personal. Annie's father, a Vegas...

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  Dead of the Day
  

  • Nov-2007
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  An Annie Seymour Mystery - 3
  

  April has hit New Haven, Connecticut, bringing with it something less fragrant than May flowers: an unidentified body in the harbor. The strange fact that there were bee stings on the floater gives New Haven Herald police reporter Annie Seymour an in...

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  Shot Girl
  

  • Nov-2008
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  An Annie Seymour Mystery - 4
  

  New Haven police reporter Annie Seymour has a talent for running into trouble. So it should come as no surprise when her co-worker’s bachelorette party at a local club quickly turns into a crime scene. What is surprising is that the dead club manag...

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  The Missing Ink
  

  • Jul-2009
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  A Tattoo Shop Mystery - 1
  

  Brett Kavanaugh is a tattoo artist and owner of the Painted Lady, catering to high-profile clients in Las Vegas. But in her free time she does a little investigating too, because murder really gets under her skin.... When a girl makes an appointment...

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  Pretty In Ink
  

  • Mar-2010
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  A Tattoo Shop Mystery - 2
  

  Brett Kavanaugh is a tattoo artist and owner of one of Vegas's hottest tattoo shops, The Painted Lady. And in her spare time, she does some sleuthing -- because nothing needles her more than murder. After Brett and company ink Sin City's newest drag...

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  Driven to Ink
  

  • Sep-2010
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  A Tattoo Shop Mystery - 3
  

  Tattoo artist Brett Kavanaugh inks high-class clientele in her Las Vegas shop, The Painted Lady. And when she's not on the job, she sets her designs on catching killers... Las Vegas is a rocking place where impersonators of the legendary Rat Pack --...

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  Ink Flamingos
  

  • Jun-2011
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  A Tattoo Shop Mystery - 4
  

  Dee Carmichael, lead singer of the hot pop sensation, The Flamingos, has been one of Brett's most dedicated customers - or was. Allergic to red dye, Dee has been discovered dead in her hotel room with a pink flamingo tattoo and surrounded by ink pots...

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  Hidden
  

  • Jul-2015
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  A Black Hat Thriller - 1
  A Nicole Jones Mystery - 1
  

  This tense and twisting novel of identity and suspense marks an intriguing new departure for cozy mystery writer Karen E. Olson. Nicole Jones -- if that is her real name -- lives off the grid. She doesn’t have a license, passport or bank account...

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  Shadowed
  

  • Jun-2016
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  A Black Hat Thriller - 2
  A Nicole Jones Mystery - 2
  

  Computer hacker ‘Nicole Jones’ finds herself on the run from an unknown enemy in this tense and twisting novel of identity and suspense The computer hacker formerly known as Nicole Jones is now living as Susan McQueen on a remote island in Que...

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  Betrayed
  

  • Apr-2017
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  A Black Hat Thriller - 3
  

  Computer hacker Tina Adler discovers that her true enemy could be someone terrifyingly close to home in this cunningly-plotted tale of identity and suspense. Framed for ordering a hit on mobster Tony DeMarco, Tina Adler is forced to re-enter the ...

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  Vanished
  

  • Feb-2018
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  A Black Hat Thriller - 4
  

  A computer hacker on the run heads to Paris to get answers but the truth may come at a price in this technothriller from the author of Betrayed.With a price on her head, computer hacker Tina Adler is determined to stay offline. Only one person knows ...

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  Nachos, a Stun Gun, and a Wedding Ring
  

  • Nov-2022
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  How far would you go to get revenge? Sam Wilkins is an up-and-coming Chicago lawyer. He's rich, handsome, married. And a cheater. He has a type. Beautiful, dark-haired, blue-eyed women. One of them decides she doesn't want to share. A bartender tell...

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  An Inconvenient Wife
  

  • Apr-2024
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  A Modern Tudor Mystery - 1
  

  This astonishing crime novel -- inspired by the Tudor era -- takes the reader into the world of Kate Parker, who has just married billionaire Hank Tudor when a headless body is discovered near their summer home . . .Kate Parker knows what she’s get...

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