Swimming into the lifeless body of her husband’s mistress tends to ruin a woman’s day, but becoming a murder suspect can ruin her whole life.It’s 1974 and Ellison Russell’s life revolves around her daughter and her art. She’s long since stopped caring about her cheating husband, Henry, and the women with whom he entertains himself. That is, until she becomes a suspect in Madeline Harper’s death. The murder forces Ellison to confront her husband’s proclivities and his crimes—kinky s...

Ellison Russell wanted a decorator, not a corpse. Too bad she finds Mrs. White in the study killed with a revolver. Things go from bad to worse when she finds Mr. White in the dining room killed with a candlestick.With so many bodies, is it any wonder Detective Anarchy Jones’ new partner considers Ellison a suspect?With the country club gossips talking a mile a minute, an unexpected cocktail party, a visit from Aunt Sis, and a romantic decision, Ellison hardly has time to t...

Thanksgiving night in Kansas City means the Plaza Lighting Ceremony.When Ellison Jones and her family go to her great-aunt's apartment to see the lights come on, she doesn't anticipate a murder (she never does). But when a shirt-tail relative falls from a seventeenth-floor balcony, she and Anarchy are drawn into the investigation.Can they catch a killer before anyone else dies?

Ellison Russell Jones’ best friend Libba has a questionable track record when it comes to men. But finally—finally—she’s selected a good one.Charlie Ardmore hales from a fine family, plays a mean game of golf, and is a cardiologist.Even Mother approves.But when Charlie’s patients start dying, the whispers begin. Is Charlie a killer?Could Harrington Walford, Ellison’s beloved father and one of Charlie’s patients, be the next to die?Can Ellison stop a ...

A dead body in the trunk of a car. It's the Kansas City mob's signature.So why is a member of Ellison's circle found shot in his sedan at the country club?Did Baxter Phelps have ties to the mafia? Did they make him an offer he couldn't refuse? Is Baxter's widow Helen in danger?As Ellison is drawn into a dangerous investigation, she can't help but think maybe this time Mother is right. She should mind her own busine

Haunted houses are scary enough without knife-wielding clowns. Especially murderous knife-wielding clowns. So thinks Ellison Russell, single mother, artist, and reluctant sleuth.Now death wears a red nose and Ellison is up to the blood-stained collar of her new trench coat in costumes, caffeine, and possible killers. Who stabbed Brooks Harney? And why? Money? Jealousy? Drugs?With Mother meddling, her father furious, and her date dragged downtown for questioning, turns out E...

One secret. Two decades. And a body on the patio.A whirlwind marriage to a French count who wanted her father's money more than he ever wanted her? It's a secret Libba has kept for twenty years.She's never told anyone. Not even Ellison.But secrets can be deadly — and this one is revealed with a knife in his side on Ellison's back patio.Ghislain de Fevre is dead. Quite obviously murdered. And the police think Libba might have killed him....

It isn't easy having Hollywood's biggest, brightest star for a mother—especially when her Russian oligarch boyfriend has been kidnapped. When Poppy Fields flies to London to be with her mother, she finds nothing but fog, danger, and phenomenal shopping.Too bad half the city wants Poppy dead, and she has no idea why.The odds against her are high, the menace is real, and if she doesn't find answers quickly, a dirty bomb will send global financial markets plummeting. Poppy wil...

Poppy Fields, Hollywood IT girl extraordinaire, accompanies her A-list mother to Paris, and why not? It's PARIS!What her mother doesn't know is Poppy's on assignment. Her mission? To help bankrupt a drug cartel. To do that, she must access encrypted account numbers, evade a drug lord with a grudge, dodge a Russian oligarch, and align herself with a man who looks like a Norse god. Oh, and there's that plot—the one to launch a massive attack on the City of Lights.If Poppy's n...

Spring is in the air, and Ellison Russell has places to go, people to see, bodies to find. Strike that. For once, Ellison doesn’t discover the body.When Detective Anarchy Jones investigates a friend’s husband’s murder, Ellison can’t help but get involved.Now she’s waist-deep in toxic gossip, struggling with the soaring heights and nocuous lows of her teenager’s mood swings, fending off the advances of her first love, planning a wedding, and (of course) tripping over fresh c...

A dead body in the trunk of a car. It's the Kansas City mob's signature.So why is a member of Ellison's circle found shot to death in a sedan at the country club?Did Baxter Phelps have ties to the mafia? Did they make him an offer he couldn't refuse? Is Baxter's widow Helen in danger?As Ellison is drawn into a dangerous investigation, she can't help but think maybe this time Mother is right. She should mind her own business.

An enticing historical mystery that follows a crime-solving female reporter in the glamorous world of 1920s Manhattan, from the author of The Deep End.“Sex and the City, circa 1920.” —Kirkus ReviewsThis writer just found her next scoop … and it’s deadly.New York, 1925: Freddie Archer frequents speakeasies and wild parties with her friends Dorothy Parker and Tallulah Bankhead. And the best part is that it’s...