Three years ago, FBI Agent Drake Reed’s young wife was murdered, her killer never caught. Haunted by his past, Drake now specializes in murder cases of women, hoping to find her killer….

In a deadly twist of art imitating life, women who posed for sculptures find themselves becoming victims. Drake must face creative madness to catch a murderer with an eye for beauty—and a heart of stone. Can he enter the killer’s mind before the artist strikes again?

Abby, the owner of Goldilocks Hair Salon, is shocked when she finds blood at the entrance of her salon. She has a soft spot for a homeless woman named Rose, who she wants to rehabilitate. But Abby fears the blood found at her salon may belong to Rose, since the woman slept there and now has disappeared.

Determined to find Rose, Abby becomes an amateur sleuth, but is discouraged by Jack, a Daytona Beach Police Sergeant. While their relationship blossoms, in the wings is the handsome neighbor and fireman Mark, who has a knack for being present whenever Abby gets into trouble.

Relationships become complicated when a young employee becomes pregnant and one hairdresser doesn’t view Rose quite the same as Abby. Despite intrigue, danger and being stalked, Abby maintains her bright outlook and wisdom. Readers will enjoy the times when some characters from the author’s 50-Plus Condo series visit the salon.

Paul Kitka likes fast cars, women and his job as a lieutenant in the Alaska State Troopers. He likes living in Talkeetna, a small town full of quirky people he’s happy to call friends and neighbors. Life is good.

Candace Marshall doesn’t know what she likes — being married to an abusive husband had stripped her of all personal preferences. She likes good coffee. She likes her landlord’s kids. She even likes her new job as office manager for Purdue Flight Service. And to her surprise, she likes Alaska.

She came to Alaska to disappear. She chose Talkeetna, a small, remote town at the base of Mount Denali, to start over with a different name — in a state her husband hates, and the state hates him back. It was her best chance.

When Candace finds him dead in her cabin, her first thought is to run again. Who would believe she didn’t kill him?

When Lt. Paul Kitka sees a murdered abusive husband, he assumes the wife killed him — and in Alaska? No one’s going to convict her. But Candace Marshall insists she didn’t do it, and reluctantly, he believes her.

It is August 1935 and the Duke of Mersham is hosting one of his influential parties, bringing together public figures interested in improving Anglo-German relations. One of his guests is General Sir Alistair Craig VC, who swallows poison in the duke’s excellent port and dies just as latecomers Lord Edward Corinth and journalist Verity Browne arrive on the scene.

The unlikely pair – the younger son of a duke and a journalist committed to the Communist Party – find common ground as they seek for the truth behind the general’s murder and discover that everyone present, including the duke himself, had a motive for wanting Sir Alistair out of the way …

When a mysterious child follows Ella Bridges home, she feels compelled to help—but soon realises she may have invited more trouble than she imagined…

Recently settled into a charming home on Linhay Island–fondly known as The Yellow Cottage–Ella is still adjusting to island life when she finds herself entangled in a chilling murder investigation. But she’s not solving it alone. A rather unusual companion, a lingering presence from the cottage’s past, offers assistance in unexpected ways.

Following a trail of cryptic clues that lead her into the heart of 1930’s London, Ella must confront a dangerous foe before she becomes their next target.

Can she unravel the mystery in time?

A pioneer in forensic anthropology, Bill Bass created the world’s first laboratory dedicated to the study of human decomposition—three acres on a Tennessee hillside where human bodies are left to the elements. His research at the Body Farm has revolutionized the field, helping crack cold cases and pinpoint time of death. But during a forensics career that spans half a century, Bass’s work has ranged far beyond the gates of the Body Farm. In this riveting book, the bone sleuth explores the rise of modern forensic science, using fascinating cases he’s worked on to take readers into the real world of C.S.I.

Some cases rely on the simplest of tools and techniques, such as reassembling—from battered torsos and a stack of severed limbs—eleven people hurled skyward by an explosion at an illegal fireworks factory. Other cases hinge on sophisticated techniques Bass couldn’t have imagined when he began his career: harnessing scanning electron microscopy to detect trace elements in knife wounds, or extracting DNA from a long-buried corpse, only to find that the murder victim may have been mistakenly identified a quarter-century before.

Hello? Can you hear me? Probably not. I’m Dr Miriam Price . . . and I’m dead.
The local police, who couldn’t investigate their own nostrils, think I drank myself into an early grave. The nerve! I was murdered. I was just too plastered to know whodunnit, that’s all.

Unless I prove to my inquest this week that my death was no ‘misadventure’, I’m condemned to 50 years in Limbo. I have to find my killer – but I can’t communicate with any living human. Well, there’s one, but she barely qualifies . . . Winnie – my neighbour and nemesis. It seems the dying can interact with the dead, which is helpful news for me, if not stellar for Winnie. Oh well. She’ll live. Maybe.

Suspects? How long have you got? My saintly husband, who’d reached his limit? My best friend, who was anything but? My secret lover, or his wife? My disgruntled colleague? The mother who wrongly holds me responsible for her child’s death? Professor Plum? Your guess is as good as mine.