A brand-new town. A legendary aunt. A poker game gone horribly wrong.After twenty-seven years of marriage, Mitzy Taylor is starting over with little more than a suitcase, a bruised heart, her Jack Russell terrier Biscuit, and absolutely no plan.Her temporary solution? Move in with her unforgettable Aunt Lottie in the picturesque seaside town of Pacific Grove, California.It should be the perfect place to heal.Morning walks on the beach. Fresh...

Spring has sprung, but private detective Mimi Capurro is still avoiding the proposal she received from homicide detective Nick Christianson during Christmas. With her business booming and a lack of investigators, Mimi can't focus on anything else. But when her mother brings a new case to the Gotcha Detective Agency, Mimi is forced to prioritize.Lydia's dear friend was found dead in her car, and despite the police ruling it a suicide, Lydia and the victim's husband believe there's m...

Private detective Mimi Capurro's best friend and colleague, Jackie, storms into the office in a full mom-meltdown.Confiscating her fourteen-year-old daughter's laptop and phone seemed like a standard teenage drama. A secret online crush. Some flirty texts. Nothing a good password hack and a serious conversation can't fix.Except Charles cracks the password — and what he finds isn't a boy from Wisconsin.It's a predator. And he lives less than half a mile away....

Mimi Capurro is a private investigator. She does stakeouts, cheating spouses, and the occasional murder.Trade shows are not her thing.But favors get called in, friends need help, and somehow Mimi ends up spending a perfectly good weekend in San Francisco surrounded by artisan vendors, gift buyers, and one very dead body clutching a voodoo doll with a needle in it.Now she's got a booth full of suspects, a surveillance job quietly going sideways, and Nick showing up a...

Kate's finally buried all the skeletons of her past, or so she thinks. Things have changed since Chief Benoit took the helm, and Kate's life is about to get turned around in a big way. Peculiar Police Department is getting a new officer, and Kate's getting a new partner.Will anyone be ready for this? Will Kate survive having a partner?Their first big case involves a missing person, the second one of the day. Only the second case isn't so cut and dried and now they are hopin...

Something stinks in Peculiar, Texas, and it's not just the dead cop Sergeant Zane Gwilly found shortly before midnight.Kate Darby misses patrolling the streets of Peculiar, Texas, but she has unfinished business. And she can't have the cops knowing what she's doing.What do the death of a drug dealer and (two months later) a cop have in common? That's what Kate and Zane need to find out.

SOUTHERN FRIED COZY HOMICIDEUSA Today Bestselling author Jamie Lee Scott offers up a fun new series set in Pear, Texas. You'll fall in love with the characters, drool over the recipes, and laugh out loud.Set in the Piney Woods of the Upper Eastside of Texas, where there's an abundance of good wineries, great food, and a few murders.Food blogger, Marcy Savoie, is trying to make a living from her food blog so she can stop dealing with her food photography clients, and...

Nick and Mimi are happily married and settled into their new home. It all seems perfect, but is it? Somehow, just when you think life is perfect, something or someone comes along to upset the calm waters.Charles Parks to the rescue! Or is he just meddling?Running from your troubles is never a good idea, and yet when Charles presents Mimi with tickets for a cruise to the Virgin Islands she jumps at the chance to leave it all behind, even if it's only for a week.In true ...

Ah, the smell of Christmas and murder are in the air. And the private investigators of Gotcha Detective Agency are on the case.Mimi has picked up a skip trace, and while staking out the fugitive's girlfriend's house, hoping he'll pop in, Mimi sees activity in the house next door.What happens next no one could have expected. And where it leads is even crazier.In a story of twists and turns, this murder mystery is a little different than the trouble Charles and Mimi usua...

Every instinct Mimi Capurro had said to turn the client away.She took the money anyway.By morning, someone was dead, the DEA was at her kitchen table, and Mimi was staring down a case that had nothing to do with a cheating husband — and everything to do with the life she thought she already knew.Turns out, she didn't know half of it.What a Meth is the fourth book in the Gotcha Detective Agency series — and the one where everything goes up in...

She survived a cheating husband, a nervous breakdown, and a disastrous blind date. But someone just turned her decoy operation deadly — and Mimi Capurro is about to find out how bad "vice" can really get.Private detective Mimi Capurro thought running a prostitution sting operation for the Salinas Police Department was her ticket back to normal. New business, new income, new lease on life. Maybe even a new man — if her meddling business partner Charles would stop an...

In Salinas politics, the only thing dirtier than the campaign trail is the crime scene.Private detective Mimi Capurro has seen some shady clients walk through the door of the Gotcha Detective Agency. But when a lean, silver-sideburned cowboy named Skinner Mathis drops a stack of cash on her desk and asks her to take down the county's most beloved political figure, she figures — how bad could it get?Famous last words.Bucky Cox is "everyone's man." Wo...