VAGRANT DEATH HITS HOME IN PEACEFUL PALO ALTO. While vagabond writer Liz Sullivan lies innocently sleeping in her '69 VW microbus, someone parks a dead body under it. His name was Pigpen Murphy, a vagrant whom Liz shared some unpleasant words with...
A SIMPLE TWIST OF FATE? It must be mere chance that puts freelance writer Liz Sullivan on the scene when the body of beautiful Jenifer Paston is discovered -- and coincidence that Jenifer happens to be a star at SoftWrite, the Silicon Valley compa...
SPECIAL DELIVERY For the first time in years, struggling freelance writer Liz Sullivan is headed home to Denver to visit her estranged family. No sooner does she arrive than her former husband's dead body is delivered to her father's front porch w...
SKELETON OF THE PAST
Back in the Sixties, the street belonged to students, druggies, and rolling stones. Nowadays it's a sedate family enclave, and freelance writer Liz Sullivan, who is child-and house-sitting on the block, is astonish...
A GARDEN OF GOOD AND EVIL In the cheerful community garden where struggling freelance writer Liz Sullivan grows her veggies, someone is raking up old, hurtful scandals. So when a dead body turns up in nosy Lois Humphries's meticulously maintained ...
POIISONOUS PERSONALITIES The grandmotherly disposition that food celebrity Hannah Couch dishes out in her bestselling books and on her TV shows is totally missing when Liz Sullivan joins Hannah's San Francisco publicity tour as media escort. In pr...
Writer Bridget Montrose finds that the rarefied world of the literati can be hazardous, not only to her self-esteem but also to her life. Bridget is delighted to be accepted at a prestigious writer's retreat on the California coast and is looking for...
Sherlock Holmes falls in love with this passionate young widow--as much as his cold nature will allow him to love. She is an intellectual sparring partner for him, and his match in deduction. She foils villains using common household objects and tool...