amateur sleuth murder mysteries

It’s happening again—people are disappearing. And just like before, the finger is pointed at Becca. She knows how it looks … and that she’s being set up. Someone is following her. Sneaking into her house. Planting evidence to make her look guilty. The problem is, she has no idea why. The bigger problem is, no one believes her. And time is running out.

Becca would like nothing better than to put the past behind her and focus on making Redemption her home. But what do you do when the past refuses to stay buried? Becca still can't remember the night sixteen-year-old Jessica disappeared from a party, never to be seen again. Which is bad enough (especially since she was supposedly the last person to see Jessica alive), but it's not the worst … Strange events are making Becca think there's a link between what happened to Jessica fifteen years ago and the darkness happening now.

Unfortunately for Ike Krane, his parents had a wicked sense of humor. So, early on, he decided to embrace his challenges rather than run from them, which is how he become a ghost hunter and ended up visiting Redemption, Wisconsin. The problem—trouble seems to follow Ike just as it did his fictional predecessor. First, there’s the sound of a horse galloping down the neighborhood streets at night, even though there’s never a horse to be found. Then, Ike’s on-again, off-again girlfriend Kat arrives with an urgent message for him.

The first three psychological thrillers in the award-winning Secrets of Redemption Series: It Began With a Lie, This Happened to Jessica, The Evil That Was Done. A fresh start. That's what Becca hoped the move from New York to Redemption, Wisconsin, would be for her troubled family. A way to get her crumbling marriage back on track, and to bond with her difficult 16-year-old stepdaughter. But instead of a new beginning, Becca is thrust into a mysterious past she barely remembers. A past that includes …

Five friends went into the woods. Only four came back. There’s a reason why Redemption, Wisconsin, is the home of all sorts of odd occurrences, including disappearances, murders, and general weirdness. It all started back in 1888, when all the adults vanished, leaving behind only the children. No one knows what happened to the adults, but there is no end to the rumors flying around. One particularly persistent rumor involves a cabin in the woods, and what supposedly lives in it. Some say if you can find it, you’ll be granted your deepest wish.

When Charlie agrees to accompany her friend Claire to her late grandmother's reading of the will, she assumes she is simply there for moral support. She doesn't expect things to get so ... strange. It’s odd enough that it takes place over a weekend, but that’s just the beginning ... They also need to stay in Claire's grandma's supposedly haunted house with Claire's estranged family. Things get even worse when a huge storm snows them in. No electricity, no phone, and no way out.

If you've got a problem, Charlie Kingsley probably has a tea that’ll help make it right. EXCEPT when it comes to love. She does NOT do love potions. Not even for Courtney, her pregnant new client who showed up three weeks before Christmas seeking a love potion because her husband was cheating on her. So, Courtney asked about poison, instead. She said she was joking. That's what happens between wives and husbands. They get angry and talk about killing each other. They don't really mean it.

Everyone knows vampires don’t exist. So when Mildred Schmidt, one of Charlie’s customers, is convinced that her next-door neighbor’s house sitter is actually a vampire, Charlie of course has to step in to see what is really going on. What she finds is … disturbing. The house sitter DOES have some peculiar habits—like digging holes in the backyard in the middle of the night. Surely, they aren’t … graves. But then Polly, a local teenager, goes missing. Of course, teenagers DO run away from time to time.

What if you were in the bathroom late one night and you heard a commotion, and when you came out your boyfriend was missing and there was a bloody knife on the floor. Then the police arrived and thought you'd killed him? That's the position Nancy Kerr finds herself in this gripping mystery crime thriller. Book 3 in the Nancy Kerr series

Trevor Locke used to solve cases for the FBI. Now he trudges through a quiet early-retirement routine in the San Francisco Bay Area. Until an old friend's brother turns up dead. For no reason. When Trevor agrees to help, he finds out that the victim moved 3 times in a year. Running from something. But nobody knows the reason for that either.

Charlie Kingsley is NOT a doctor. She is very clear about this to all her customers who purchase her teas and tinctures. But, somehow that doesn't stop her customers from treating her like a doctor. Including calling her in the middle of the night to help with an emergency. What's the emergency? Her customer's daughter, Cyndi, was attacked by a ... gargoyle? But gargoyles aren't real! Right? So, who attacked Cyndi? And whose next?

A fresh start. That's what Becca hoped the move from New York to Redemption, Wisconsin would be for her troubled family. A way to get her crumbling marriage back on track, and to bond with her difficult 16-year-old stepdaughter. But instead of a new beginning, Becca is thrust into a mysterious past she barely remembers. A past that includes the complications of interacting with her old teenage crush, Daniel, as well as living in her aunt's old house. A house with a violent past. A house the locals swear is haunted. But there's no such thing as ghosts. Right?