Matt Witten

A Jacob Burns Mystery

1 - Breakfast at Madeline's (Sep-1999)
2 - Grand Delusion (Jan-2000)
3 - Strange Bedfellows (Nov-2000)
4 - The Killing Bee (Nov-2001)

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  Breakfast at Madeline's
  

  • Sep-1999
  • / Amateur Sleuth
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  A Jacob Burns Mystery - 1
  

  A Sleuth's Work Is Never Done.... Jacob Burns -- husband, father and frustrated writer -- has finally sold a screenplay. But success isn't all it's cracked up to be. Now he has writer's block, and spends his days drinking coffee in his favorit...

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  Grand Delusion
  

  • Jan-2000
  • / Amateur Sleuth
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  A Jacob Burns Mystery - 2
  

  NEIGHBORLY LOVE...AND DEATH Writer Jacob Burns is getting used to the good life--with money in the hank, a screenplay in production, and a loving family at home--he's never been happier. Except for the fact that his drug-dealing neighbors' rowdy a...

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  Strange Bedfellows
  

  • Nov-2000
  • / Amateur Sleuth
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  A Jacob Burns Mystery - 3
  

  FRIENDS IN LOW PLACES Jacob Burns is a loving husband, devoted father, and work-at-home writer. And he's about to be saddled with a whole new profession--campaign manager. Jacob's old college roomie, Will "With a name like this..." Shmuckler, is ...

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  Serve and Volley
  

  in And the Dying is Easy

  • Jun-2001
  • / Mystery
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  WHAT I SOLVED ON MY SUMMER VACATION. Detectives make their reputations solving cases of murder and mayhem. Ever wonder what happens when they try to get away from it all? In this summertime crime spree, twenty of today's best mystery writers--f...

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  The Killing Bee
  

  • Nov-2001
  • / Amateur Sleuth
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  A Jacob Burns Mystery - 4
  

  Lobbying hard for a gifted and talented program at the local school for their precocious offspring, Jacob Burns and his comrades are stunned when Sam Meckel, the unpopular principal at the school and a fierce opponent of their cause, is found dead, b...

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  The Necklace
  

  • Sep-2021
  • / Thriller
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  The clock ticks down in a heart-pounding crusade for justice Susan Lentigo's daughter was murdered twenty years ago -- and now, at long last, this small-town waitress sets out on a road trip all the way from Upstate New York to North Dakota to witnes...

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  Killer Story
  

  • Jan-2023
  • / Police Procedural
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  How far will she go to catch the killer -- and make her podcast a hit? Talented and idealistic young reporter Petra Kovach is on the brink of being laid off from her third failing newspaper in a row. To save her job, she pitches the launch of a true ...

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