The women in the life of private investigator Niccolo Fitzhugh aren't making things easy for him at all.His mother has told Father O'Malley, the priest at St. Rita, he would investigate—for free—the case of Aileen O'Connor, who lost $50,000 to con man Benedict St. Giles and who believes she's part of a rebirth of the Catholic Church.Then Fitz's beloved wife Gracie leaves him for two weeks to fend for himself to take a group of students to Vienna,—and Father O'Malley ends up...

The women in the life of private investigator Niccolo Fitzhugh aren’t making things easy for him at all.His mother has told Father O’Malley, the priest at St. Rita, he would investigate—for free—the case of Aileen O’Connor, who lost $50,000 to con man Benedict St. Giles and who believes she’s part of a rebirth of the Catholic Church.Then Fitz’s beloved wife Gracie leaves him for two weeks to fend for himself to take a group of students to Vienna,—and Father O’Malley ends up...

Acquitted of killing her abusive husband, Bellamy Tate has gone underground to work for a shadowy network that helps domestic violence victims disappear. But when she picks up another 'evaporation' as the network calls their rescues, there's a family connection that could put her life in danger. Safe is the story of a young woman coming to terms with her past and the danger it's put her in.

There are blondes — and then there are high maintenance blondes. And Eve Dahlgren was a high maintenance blonde, even forty years ago in high school.When Eve ends up dead, and Journal-Gazette publisher Earlene Whitelaw is arrested for her murder, it looks like an open and shut case. It’s up to editor Addison McIntyre to prove her boss didn’t kill her.But Eve’s got secrets—and so does the newest Journal-Gazette reporter, Charisma Lemarnier. Will Charisma’s past stan...

Hometown star Nora Solomon was poised for fame when she was found dead in her barn. It’s a sad end to a long acting career that was ready to explode with the upcoming release of two movies.Then Nora’s nephew contacts Fitz and says Nora was murdered, even though there’s nothing to suggest that she died from anything other than a heart attack.The actress certainly surrounded herself with some questionable characters. Her farm help did time for killing a man, her fan club pres...

Unhappy clients and a marriage on the brink of implosion mean tough times for Fitz.When Alicia is kidnapped from her hotel room while prosecuting a high-profile murder trial, the search for her uncovers an ugly subculture of hate that Fitz needs to infiltrate in order to save his wife. What he learns along the way could also save his marriage.This is the sixth in Debra Gaskill's award-winning Fracktown Gumshoe mystery series.

When Marcus Henning came to the Jubilant Falls Journal-Gazette in 1982, he was looking for the one story that would change his career, give him credibility after screwing up a story in another town. Instead, he fell in love —and lost— the fiery red-headed Kay James when she married an Air Force fighter pilot named Paul Armstrong. Seven years later, Kay was back — without the Major— and Marcus is on the trail of the one big story that would redeem his career. But there are secrets to

The Southern Ohio Writers and Readers Collaborative, SOWriters for short, is a writers' critique group which, in true social media form, accepts members online through several different websites. The group began meeting in 2013 at local restaurants, book stores, and the Ross County Library until SOWriters was approached in mid-2015 by volunteers at the Pump House Center for the Arts offering to hold their meetings there.SOWriters, which is now led by Debra Gaskill, a childhood Chil...

There are blondes — and then there are high maintenance blondes. And Eve Dahlgren was a high maintenance blonde, even forty years ago in high school.When Eve ends up dead, and Journal-Gazette publisher Earlene Whitelaw is arrested for her murder, it looks like an open and shut case. It's up to editor Addison McIntyre to prove her boss didn't kill her.But Eve's got secrets—and so does the newest Journal-Gazette reporter, Charisma Lemarnier. Will Charisma's past stand in her ...

Unhappy clients and a marriage on the brink of implosion mean tough times for Fitz.When Alicia is kidnapped from her hotel room while prosecuting a high-profile murder trial, the search for her uncovers an ugly subculture of hate that Fitz needs to infiltrate in order to save his wife. What he learns along the way could also save his marriage.This is the sixth in Debra Gaskill’s award-winning mystery series.

In Death Comes to Jubilant Falls, author Debra Gaskill brings together all five novels featuring editor/sleuth Addison McIntyre and the crimes she and the staff of the Journal Gazette solve in the southwestern Ohio town of Jubilant Falls. In Barn Burner, Lyndzee Thorn the daughter of Golgotha College president Seaford Thorn has been kidnapped and Addison is hot on the trail of her kidnappers. In The Major’s Wife, Gaskill takes readers back ...

A Saturday of ballistic therapy at the Fawcettville gun range turns bloody for PI Niccolo ‘Fitz’ Fitzhugh when local social worker and community theater star Anna Maria Ippolito is found murdered in her home. It’s personal too—he’s been casually dating Anna Maria following his disastrous break up with prosecutor Alicia Linnerman.The discovery of a strange coded journal at Anna Maria’s home makes Fitz and Anna Maria’s sister Carlotta wonder if she’s living some sort of double life, ...