Genres : Amateur Sleuth

From Hollywood, California, to Heywood, Arizona, trouble follows her...After her husband’s brutal killing and her fall from the Hollywood elite, the disgraced Samantha Rathbone moves to Heywood hoping to forget her past and live a quiet life of anonymity as Sam Jones.When she takes a job at the local herbal shop, Sage Advice, and the owner is found murdered, Sam is pushed back into the unwanted spotlight when she becomes the number one suspect. As she wades through ugly family...

Going home was supposed to be simple—until someone was murdered.Tracy Adams thought returning to Fern Grove would be a fresh start. Sure, helping her aunt run a failing flower shop wasn’t the dream, but it was a chance to regroup after losing her career.That chance vanished when the town’s most unpopular florist turned up dead—and Tracy got linked to the crime. The gossip is spreading. And the police are looking at her as their top suspect.Now, Tracy has to solve...

Hannah Kline is a successful Los Angeles obstetrician and the recently widowed mother of a young daughter. She is barely managing to hold it all together when her life is shattered once again, by the brutal murder of her beautiful, bright, zany and recently divorced sister-in-law Beth. Hannah is determined to do whatever she can to assist the police in finding the murderer.She soon becomes obsessed with the details of Beth’s life. As she encounters her sister-in-law’s eclectic collection of...

The Reluctant Rector is a boxset of the first three books in The Father Tom Mysteries. Meet Father Tom Greer and Detective Helen Parr, former lovers reunited after twenty years, as they solve crimes old and new--and explore the profound mysteries of the human heart.The Penitent Priest (Book 1)--My wife died in my arms, the victim of a nameless killer's bullet. I should have died with her. But God had other plans for me. Fifteen years later, I'm back where...

Welcome to Westhaven - or welcome back, in my case. Hurrying home to be at my dad's bedside wasn't exactly how I planned my small-town homecoming, especially when my shoot-for-the-stars successful life is hanging by a thread. But there's something comforting about being back in my hometown, even if it does mean crossing paths with my high school frenemies more than I'd like.When my favorite former teacher dares me to enter the winter pie festival I need all the help...

A pretty little townAn inheritanceA break-inA bodyEdie Doyle may be new in town, but she’s about to uncover long-held secrets. Secrets someone will do anything to protect.When her Great Aunt Jane dies, Edie inherits her house—and a load of trouble. The frozen corpse is just the beginning.Can she trust her binocular-wielding neighbour, or the handsome pub owner? And what about the motives of a dead woman? Jane abandoned her when she was a child. Why make Edie her heir now?As...

USA Today Bestselling Author Kennedy Layne switches creative gears and brings you a cozy paranormal mystery that will have you wishing these unique and comical characters could spring to life with a twitch of your nose… An inherited tea shop, a quaint little Connecticut town, and its quirky residents have Raven Marigold believing her luck is about to change for the better. Of course, that was before she and her best friend found a dead body in the back of...

In exchange for an exclusive story, headstrong reporter, Kendall O'Dell is thrust into a series of life-threatening situations when she agrees to accompany 20 yr old Angela Martin to claim her inheritance--a remote gold mining town in Southern Arizona.  Is Angela for real or a clever imposter?  Was her father's recent death actually an accident?  Why was she never told that she had a deranged half-sister who perished in a mysterious fire 18 yrs earlier?  The astounding ending will leave...

Who killed Professor Abby Monroe?When Kellan Ayrwick returns home for his father's retirement, he finds a body in Diamond Hall's stairwell. Unfortunately, Kellan has a connection to the victim, and so do several members of his family.Soon after, the college's athletic program receives mysterious donations, a nasty blog denounces his father, and someone attempts to change students' grades. Something is amiss on campus, but none of the facts add up.With the help of his eccentric nana, Kellan tries to stay...

A bankrupt bakery. A batch of kittens. A body on the doorstep. Welcome to Pineville—where murder is always on the menu.I’m Sunny Shaw, and regardless of what my name might suggest, my world has become rather dim as of late.With a bankrupt business to save, homeless kittens that need rescuing, and a new business partner distracting me with every glance, there seems to be a disaster waiting at every turn.Just when I thought it couldn’t get any worse, a murder...