*“What happened here last night isn’t allowed,” said Madame Dubois. **It was such an extraordinary thing to say it stopped the ravenous Inspector Beauvoir from taking another bite of his roast beef on baguette.**“You have a rule against murder?” he asked.*\*“I do.  When my husband and I bought the

A three book mystery trilogy featuring Texas private investigator Kelly McWinter. Deadly Secrets: A retired cop who suffered a personal tragedy is coming to grips with his grief and considering returning to law enforcement. Deadly Betrayal: With his new PI license, and an arrangement to help out Aug

Empty nester Carol Andrews finally gives in to her Beloved Husband, Jim, and agrees to sell their home and move to an active adult community. The house sells, and Carol returns alone the night before the closing for a private pity party farewell tour. And finds the dead body of the buyer in her livi

A Baby Boomer Mystery by the author of Retirement Can Be Murder. Empty nester Carol Andrews would prefer leaving her beautiful antique home in Fairport, Connecticut, "feet first" to selling it and moving on. But her Beloved Husband Jim convinces her that a nearby active adult community is the est fi

**A collection of short stories for budding Detective Society members.** **** **Daisy and Hazel invite you to discover their untold stories . . .** Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong are famous for the murder cases they have solved - but there are many other mysteries in the pages of Hazel's casebook.

There's no place like Scumble River at Christmastime, and this year, school psychologist Skye Denison has twice as much to celebrate'and to do. In addition to the usual holiday frenzy, Skye's wedding to police chief Wally Boyd is less than a week away'that is, if the groom isn't too busy working to

Yard sales can bring out the worst in people. So when Scumble River school psychologist Skye Denison organizes a 100-mile yard sale, otherwise neighborly folk get downright nasty: her own mother creams a woman, and a battle of the sexes breaks out. But when her former boss is found murdered, nobody

When Skye Denison's brother forms a band called Pink Elephant, the town goes wild-maybe too wild. First, a groupie turns stalker, seducing the band members one by one. Then, one of the Pink Elephants winds up murdered. Who's to blame? Everyone seems to think it's the drummer-and now Skye has to clea

**In the latest from the _New York Times_ bestselling author of _Murder of an Open Book_ , a school psychologist has her hands full after a school board sourpuss meets a bitter end...** **** With her morning sickness finally abated, Skye Denison Boyd is ready to pounce on the pertinent problems

Someone will take their final bow . . . Fresh from their adventure in Hong Kong, Hazel Wong and Daisy Wells are off to the Rue Theatre in London to face an entirely new challenge: acting. But danger has a nasty habit of catching up with the Detective Society, and it soon becomes clear that there

When school psychologist Skye Denison stumbles over the body of pushy "Promfest" chairperson Annette Paine during a Halloween fundraiser, it looks like a clear-cut case of promicide. Annette was not the only prom mom desperate to see her daughter crowned queen--and her skirt-chasing hubby is no prin

**"It's always a pleasure to watch a keen mind absorbed in a difficult puzzle, which is how Dave Gurney distinguishes himself in John Verdon's tricky whodunits." —*The New York Times*** Tensions have been running high in White River as it approaches the anniversary of a fatal shooting of a black

All year round, retired schoolteacher Phyllis Newsom is as sweet as peach pie-except during the Peach Festival, whose blue ribbon has slipped through Phyllis's fingers more than once...Everyone's a little shook up when the corpse of a no-good local turns up underneath a car in a local garage. But ev

Blackjack dealer and stripper Adrian West has lived in Las Vegas long enough to be numb to beggars on the Strip. Their destitution is a sad, ugly part of reality in a city where people win or lose it all at the tables every single day. So he’s at a loss to explain why the homeless man in the su

"The Diamond Pin" is a classic locked room mystery with few clues and no end of suspicion. Mrs. Pell is having a Sunday dinner with the local minister, the minister's wife and Iris, one of her two young relatives she intends leaving her wealth to, but who she treats quite viscously. During the dinne