Super sleuth Ivy Malone's inquisitiveness has gotten her into plenty of trouble, including murder, mayhem, and a place on a mini-Mafia hit list. Still on the run from the mob, Ivy ends up in a small town in the Pacific Northwest with a broken-down motor home, a young traveling companion running f...
A new "cozy mystery" series featuring a woman and her limousine!In the course of one week Andi McConnell turns sixty, loses her job, breaks up with her boyfriend, and receives an unexpected inheritance from an eccentric rich uncle--a sleek black stretch limousine with bulletproof windows. She kno...
You’re on a one-way route to Paraoidville Sure, the Braxtons were underhanded, tricky, and clever, and I was certain this guy was no bird-watcher. But his binoculars had not been aimed in my direction, so whatever he was doing had nothing to do with me. Unless he was just playing it clever … Para...
“Do you believe what Travis said about your mother and giving the drug to her clients?” “Yeah, I guess I do.” Kim still sounded sad. “But it’s a good thing Ed never knew, or he’d have been mad enough to kill her himself. Someone gave his daughter that date-rape drug once. ...
They didn’t know I was in the game, which perhaps gave me an unfair advantage, but I decided to go with the old philosophy that all’s fair in love and war. Especially paintball war. My game plan was to work my way around to a point farther down the trail, from where I could see the planted flag. ...
I called Radison Properties to tell them I’d decided not to sell the house on Madison Street. I punched the numbers in fast before I could change my mind. I didn’t expect an instant pitch from some company bigwig trying to change my mind about not selling, but I did expect...
Nothing threatening look-ing about him, but considering all that happened lately, I felt wary. Rather than jumping out to meet him as I might have a few days ago, I cautiously rolled the window down partway. “Are you looking for someone?” I called. “Andi McConnell, I think. I’d like to talk to he...
He looked a little doubtful to her after she found he’d worked for a company that got in trouble for not turning over to the IRS some payroll tax deductions they’d made. But Belmont Investigations just offered facts, not recommendations. Just out of curiosity, she looked u...
She even considered calling Mitch to see what he thought. He might be annoying, but he was sharp and knowledgeable, and he could do things with a computer that would never occur to her. But she was stopped by two thoughts: if she called on him for help, it would look as if she needed rescue again...
We missed the cow-chip throwing contest, which did not disappoint me greatly. It was all fun, but my mind kept jumping back to the encounter with Marcy Alexander and puzzling over what I’d learned from her. Had my Kendra had a relationship with the real Kendra’s fiancé? Yet the man she’d been see...