Susan Soble is a fifty-one year old mother of two and a half grown boys. She is also an ex-principal, ex-equestrian, ex-wife and now an ex-best-friend after a brutal murder that she is determined to solve. To the dismay of her lover, Detective Carlos Alvarez, Susan uses her equestrian, school and family contacts to uncover a new suspect in that murder, all the while fending off her increasingly volatile ex-husband, Peter.

Former banker turned budding romance novelist, Samantha "Sam" Monroe, is wanted in the murder of Ariella Fantini, her soon-to-be ex-husband's grad assistant and lover. Once Sam proves that she is just about the only person who could not have committed the murder, Ariella's father, a mob boss on the run, makes Sam an offer she doesn't know how to refuse: help solve the murder of his daughter. Sam puts together a list of potential suspects that includes a jealous ex-boyfriend, a plagiarist w...

When a former high school classmate dies, three "sixty-something" widows are determined to prove that the cause was nothing less than foul play. Certain that they know the culprit, the ladies turn the lives of everyone around them upside down in their hilarious quest for justice.In this cozy mystery authors L. Barnett Evans and C.V. Rhodes offers readers a belly full of laughs!

The first three Lizzie Crenshaw mysteries in one book!Death of a Cantankerous Old Coot - Someone has killed Amos Gardner, one of the leading citizens of Brookdale. The sheriff wonders if it has something to do with the lawsuit Amos filed against his own granddaughter, Lizzie Crenshaw. When someone tries to kill Amos' wife, she points the finger at Lizzie, who must work with the new deputy to figure out what is going on before she is either thrown in jail...or becomes a victim herse...

A Northern California B&B is the perfect spot for murder in this cozy mystery series debut by the USA Today bestselling author of Murder at the Mansion.If it weren’t for the fact that she’s replacing a dead man, Kelly Jackson would love her new job managing the Redwood Cove Bed and Breakfast on the coast of Northern California. But Bob Phillips did plunge off the cliff to his death. And Kelly’s starting to think it may not have been an ac...

When a food critic is found dead in his tiramisu, the restaurant owner asks Anna to help clear him of the crime. Anna never wanted to play Nancy Drew, but Tony is like family. Can an insurance agent from Brooklyn solve the case before she's next on the killer's list?About the Author:LAURA WARE's column "Laura's Look" runs weekly in the Highlands County News Sun. She has sold several short stories; one appeared in a Pocket Books anthology. She lives in Central Florida. Check...

In News from Dead Mule Swamp, Anastasia Raven is running from the pain of a failed marriage, and hopes to hide from the world in an old farmhouse she has purchased at the edge of Dead Mule Swamp. When a hundred-year-old newspaper she finds inside a wall is stolen by Cliff Sorenson, and then Cliff disappears, Ana is convinced that the paper holds the key to the mystery. But what old news could be important enough to put Cliff in danger?(Anastasia Raven Mysteries #1)

Mimi Griffin fulfills a lifelong dream by opening a spectacular restaurant on the luxurious Montecito coast. She stages a dinner where the winner is the head chef. Darkly handsome Emil Chandon is the winner and while drinking a sample of the rare brandy he chokes and dies in agony. Shaken, Mimi turns to Sergeant Cruz who determines that she was intended target. Mimi eludes death at the Santa Barbara Botanic Gardens and is desperate to find the killer.

Using her love of Agatha Christie, Melanie arranges a Murder Mystery party where the group is isolated for the weekend at a remote deserted mansion on the San Francisco Peninsula. Longtime friends gather to celebrate but it turns sour as old wounds and affairs are brought to light, capped off with the guest of honor's murder.

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...

When Anastasia Raven agrees to keep Paddy, her cousin's Irish Setter, for the summer, she doesn't yet understand the mischievous nature of a large puppy. Ana has become a volunteer with Family Friends, and she meets Corliss Leonard and his granddaughters, Star and Sunny, whose mother disappeared seven years ago. Ana, however, has no interest in trying to solve cold cases, but just wants to help the girls. Star and Sunny fall in love with Paddy, but can the dog solve their problems? (Anasta...

When Stacee Anderson decides to take control of her life and leave her verbally and emotionally abusive husband and start a new life with her young son, she finds physical and emotional hardships along with murder and mystery.With nothing to offer for past work experience, Stacee takes a very unsavory position doing something with a local company to make ends meet but finds that her nothing life turns into something with her new found friends.Nothing is always something whe...