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A well-known, powerful family with a shocking secret. Two journalists, living one hundred years apart, both digging for the truth. It's 1920 on Minneapolis's Newspaper Row and aspiring journalist Bizzie Johansen is ready to do whatever it takes to make it - even if that means going undercover. She'll come face to face with characters who will both challenge and frighten her, befriend and encourage her as she digs for the truth. But, when she stumbles...
2) Missing
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Catherine Colson-Sayers is a brilliant mind with a big heart.She witnessed her mother's brutal torture murder at the tender age of 9.The press have just revisited the story due to the the conviction of Charlie Edwards, the murderer Catherine was instrumental in bringing to justice.Now a couple of teenagers have gone missing, and the mother of Natalie Richerson turns to Catherine for help.Rejoin Catherine and her sisters Caroline and Adrianne, along...
3) Sink or Swim
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Personal trainer Cassidy Novak garners popularity and fame while starring in a hit reality show. She catches the attention of an obsessive stalker that turns her well-ordered life topsy-turvy. As Cassidy's competitors disappear in a string of murders, she teams up with Zach Gallagher, the photographer tasked to record her personal moments for a local newspaper. Is Zach trustworthy? He shadows her as easily as the stalker. Cassidy hates the bizarre...
4) Marble Grove
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Eighty-six-year-old Marjory Mosen was murdered. She wasn't first and won't be the last.In the safety of a long-term care facility, patients with late-stage cancers are given a chilling execution - a single shot to the heart in a silent execution. There's no trace of gun residue or DNA left behind.Carin Trimble, Marble Grove's new detective, quickly realizes that solving the Nursing Home Murders is her ticket out of the limbo of being a small-town...
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CAMERA-ACTION-MURDER!Diana Rivers hadn't intended to visit England that summer but the invitation to take part in a film-shoot seemed too exciting an opportunity to miss. Life had been quiet for the last year or so and she looked forward to renewing old friendships and meeting a handful of well-known film stars.The only possible fly in the ointment, was the venue. Years before, Diana had suffered a terrifying experience in Cheltenham, England –...
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"The Assassins' Village" by author, Faith Mortimer introduces, Diana Rivers, writer, sometime actor and amateur sleuth. NB. Although the Diana Rivers mystery suspense murder novels are a 'series', they can be read in any order.When an expatriate theatrical group gather to discuss their next play there will be murder. A blackmailer stalks their picturesque Cypriot village. The group is riven with jealousies, rivalry, sexual tension and illicit affairs.Unbeknown...
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This cozy mystery series includes three different events.First The Sinister Seminar, next The Poisonous Pageant and finally, The Fatal Fundraiser. If you enjoy a little love mixed in with your mystery you will love this series. Each one of these events involves a heinous crime. Charlotte and her sister Lacey try to solve each crime. Lacey is engaged to the local sheriff and Charlotte is just letting her heart thaw after a soul killing loss. these...
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Learn why this book was a GalleyCat Mystery & Thriller Bestseller. Should we dig for the truth when Pandora's Box is a coffin of buried secrets? For twenty-five years, Diana Ferguson's killer has gotten away with murder. When rookie obit writer and newsroom editorial assistant Kris Langley investigates the unsolved mystery of a young artist obsessed with Greek mythology, not only does she fall in love with Diana's sexy nephew, but she must also fight...
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The Aspen Valley Inn Series Collection (Box Set) contains all three of the novellas that make up the series.The Aspen Valley Inn Series are light mysteries with just a touch of romance set in a charming Colorado Bed & Breakfast. Book #1 Death Checks Inn: Finally, Lacey Washburn is ready for the grand opening celebration of the Aspen Valley Inn.There are only a couple of problems. First, the dead man at the botttom of the stairs actually died seven...
10) One for Sorrow
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When jaded Melbourne divorce lawyer Clementine Carter returns to her Queensland coastal hometown of Whale Bay after a twenty-five-year absence, she figures she'll fly in, arrange the sale of the beach shack she's been left in her Aunt Rose's will, and fly back out.Once back in Whale Bay, Clem soon discovers that Rose has been locking horns with some of the most influential people in town, and her death might not be as straightforward as she's been...
11) Death Checks Inn
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The Aspen Valley Inn Series are light mysteries with a touch of romance centered around a charming Colorado Bed & Breakfast. Death Checks Inn Book #1 Finally, Lacey Washburn is ready for the grand opening celebration of The Aspen Valley Inn. There are only a couple of problems. First, the dead man at the bottom of the stairs actually died seven years ago. Second, Lacey had sworn off men forever, so why is she so interested in the handsome sheriff...
12) Croaked
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Cape Cod! To Lydia Vivaldi, it looks like sanctuary - until she learns her one friend in Quansett is dead. How could a skilled carpenter fall off a ladder at a film shoot? When Lydia lands a cooking job at Leo's Back End and starts asking questions, she's stonewalled by the flirtatious filmmaker and resented by the police. Only Edgar Rowdey, famous author of creepy little books and a Leo's regular, shares Lydia's doubts about the "accident." Can this...
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Who's out to kill Ashley Dillon? Nobody's supposed to know she's in Las Vegas except her parents and Haggis Mack, the rock-bagpiper she's divorcing. But threats from a cell-phone stalker, and nearly drowning in the Bellagio pool, send Ashley fleeing home to Cape Cod. Where better to turn 21 than at the posh waterfront party her mom, inventor Pam Nash, is throwing to launch Zappa, her revolutionary "Taser for pacifists"?
Pam appeals to her fellow...
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The Aspen Valley Inn Series are light mysteries with a touch of romance set in a charming Colorado Bed & Breakfast. Innvitation To Murder Book #3 Lacey and her sister Charlotte, are ready to open Enchanted Events. The new events center is the perfect addition to the Inn. Their first event, a small family wedding goes terribly wrong when they discover a murdered girl. They try to solve the crime and still take care of all of the wedding details. Lacey's...
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Children of the Plantation.After discovering the truth surrounding the bloody murders in, "The Assassins' Village" (the first Diana Rivers Mystery suspense novel), our sexy, feisty sleuth and heroine, Diana Rivers and her partner Steve, decide they deserve a holiday.Trying to relax at their luxurious palm fringed plantation hotel in lush, tropical Malaysia; things don't quite work out as they imagined. Diana is approached by the hotel owner, the enigmatic...
16) The Flood
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A gripping, atmospheric crime novel about a town on the edge of collapse, and a murder that shakes the community. Perfect for fans of THE DRY. When Daniela Cain returns to her small hometown after seven years' absence, she finds that flooding has left the village all but deserted. She's there to collect something she left in her childhood home, then she plans to leave. But upon entering the old house she discovers her younger sister's body half-submerged...
17) Death and Fondue
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A picturesque Texas vineyard. A tech company retreat turned deadly. A caterer caught in a bubbling pot of mystery. Abby Hirsch has established herself as the go-to caterer in her beloved hometown of Sugar Creek, Texas. But her skills are put to the test when a high-profile tech company from California chooses her aunt's charming bed and breakfast for their corporate retreat. Abby's ready to showcase her culinary talents, until the event turns sour...
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