Summer guests are eager to sink their teeth into tantalizing desserts at The Chocolate Moose, Jacobia "Jake" Tiptree and Ellie White's bakeshop in the island village of Eastport, Maine. But attracting the wrong kind of attention can be deadly . . .
With the August heat strong enough to melt solid chocolate into syrup, Jake and Ellie crave a break from the bakery ovens, despite tourist season promising a sweet payday. But they never...

During a lucid moment, an Alzheimer's patient tells amateur sleuth BIodina d'Angelo that 40 years ago he killed his lumberyard partner in the Cascades of Washington state. Biodina begins searching historical records, and a clever fraud scheme is uncovered, along with news articles about a missing lumberyard owner. Along the way, her intuitive nature and nosiness helps her uncover another murder of a well-respected record producer. Will the murderess...

Wyatt Antone's life as a gig-to-gig jazz musician folds back upon itself when he meets a mysterious young woman we eventually come to know as 'Jazmine'. After a series of 'coincidental' encounters, Wyatt begins to suspect there is a cunning design behind the meetings. With the help of his jazz mate and would be lover, Elise Marchant, Wyatt attempts to unravel the puzzle of the woman's true identity and finds himself in the middle of a murder investigation...

College students Morgan and his girlfriend Emma plan to make love in her SUV. They're parked behind the bookstore when men in ski masks interrupt them. They drag Morgan out of the vehicle and beat him, showing no signs of stopping until Frankie drives up. The men leave quickly in the SUV taking Emma away from Morgan. Frankie, who used to be a paramedic, takes the injured boyfriend home with him, because Morgan recognized the tattoo on a man's wrist...

Mystery Shorts is a hilarious collection of stories that combind farce with mystery. Meet a group of offbeat characters that find themselves is absurd situations. Who said murder isn't funny?

Book 2 in the Lily O'Hara series explores the power of the monster hiding in plain sight. A power is afforded him by the silence of others. Lily O'Hara faces another example of the pain of buried pasts when she is drawn into the mystery of a young fisherman who takes his life and leaves a cryptic message about the truth that is killing him. Max Fraser, best friend of her husband Phillip, receives the message and asks Lily to help him decipher it....

Mira and Robin are able to astral project from their bodies to solve crimes. After secrets are revealed, Mira Hawking's love interest in Detective Jeff Borden is put on hold. Mira and and Robin Wallace decide to move out of Middleton to a small town to open a Yoga Studio in time for the town's annual Christmas Spirit celebration. Now, their contractor is accused of murder and the ghostly duo must solve another mystery. Detective Borden has taken vacation...

A belated Honeymoon... New friends... and another Murder!Cookie and Jerry, along with Cream, are motor-homing their way around the country for their honeymoon. Along the way, they've made a lot of new friends. The trip is going great as they spend endless hours alone together seeing the sights, away from the worries of Widow's Rest.But the fun ends when one of those new friends is found dead and they find themselves in the middle of another murder...

A New Marriage... A Desperate Granddaughter... And An Old Mystery...When a man caught breaking and entering claims to have new information in a decades old mystery, Cookie can't help but get involved.The new information seems to indicate that one of the town's residents was involved all those years ago and Cookie is having a difficult time believing it.If that isn't enough to deal with Cookie's granddaughter, Clarissa, arrives unexpectedly on her...

A former fashion photographer encounters murder and corruption in New Orleans It's too hot to sleep. It's too hot to be up. This is New Orleans in the summer. And as dawn breaks on a sweltering July morning, André Derain awakens to a scream from his courtyard as a man is stabbed just below his window. Acting on impulse, Derain leaps out the window, in the buff, and chases the attacker down the alleyway, but the man with the knife gets away. By the...