Church bells chime in an ancient bell tower as architect Jordan Mayfair, from Savannah, Georgia, and her travel-writer uncle, Alexander Carlyle, arrive at Convento di Santa Francesca Firenze in Florence, Italy. Jordan expects the 15th century convent with its exquisite gardens to offer a safe and serene retreat from the crowded, bustling, touristy district...

When attorney Samuel (Sam) Wong goes missing, wildlife magazine reporter Kristy Farrell believes the disappearance is tied to her latest story concerning twenty acres of prime beachfront that the Clam Shell Cove Aquarium hopes to purchase. Sam works for multi-millionaire land developer Lucien Moray who wants to buy the property for an upscale condominium...

The embittered Sir Meliagaunt is overlooked by King Arthur when a group of new knights, including Gildas of Cornwall, are appointed to the Round Table. In an ill-conceived attempt to catch Arthur’s notice, Meliagaunt kidnaps Queen Guinevere and much of her household from a spring picnic and carries them off to his fortified castle of Gorre, hoping to force...

When his girlfriend dumps him and a dealer rams him off a bridge, Al DeSantis quits the New Haven Police Department. As he plans to head for LA, he learns his father who abandoned him as a kid has deeded him the Blue Palmetto Detective Agency in Georgia. Now fearing bridges, Al drives to Savannah intending to sell fast and go west, but before he can, he...

The Olympic Games are coming to Boston! Or are they? When a burial detail to the paupers’ grave on Boston’s Rinker Island comes up with one extra coffin, Dan Burton is called in to take the case. The murdered man is one Constantine Boustaloudis, a neighborhood activist against the effort of rich and powerful interests to bring the Olympic Games to Boston...

It is July of 1865, and in Saratoga Springs, the wealthy racegoers wish, in the words of General Daniel Sickles, who left a leg at Gettysburg, “to let bygones be bygones” and put the war behind them. But Rose Adair cannot forget Lane Fallon, the Englishman she last saw being dragged off to be hanged as a Confederate spy. Cole Washington III, a former slave...

Secrets long buried surround the murder of teenage Melanie Tippitt. The daughter of a wealthy family in a small town, her lifeless body was found floating in Tippitt Pond in the summer of 1971. Six people were there that day, and one was convicted of her murder. Case closed.

Now, forty-five years later, Beth Russell, a freelance researcher and genealogist...

If Becoming a Contract Killer is Your Idea of a Joke, Keep it Quiet or You Could Land in a Heap of Trouble Who says men should have all the fun? During a margarita fest at a Manhattan Café, an intoxicated Babs Harrison and her buddy Bootsie Kittredge joke about starting a contract killing business. Unemployed and running low on funds, they fantasize about...

While Mark Yeager is vacationing with his wife, Sophie, on Maui, he discovers a pickleball court and a dead body. Detective Puna Pa’a and his sidekick, Akahi Mendoza, consider Mark a suspect in the death of George Tanabe. Mark meets three pickleball players, Ted Franklin, Lefty Kalama and Keone Ahuna, and joins a game with them, hoping to learn more about...

“Hidden under a cloak of legitimacy, I have been pressed to deliver extraordinary service for my country. It has been a successful ruse.  A premium blend of dark deception with just an aroma of truth.” —Dr. Lily Robinson

Dr. Lily Robinson is a brilliant physician with an encyclopedic knowledge of all toxins and poisons, and a penchant for stilettos. In an...

Who is she, where’d she come from, and how did she end up fully clothed on the shore of a mountain lake? Such are the questions that a small town sheriff with higher aspirations must try and solve when he has no experience whatsoever with murder or anything close to it. And yet if...

On a much needed vacation with his daughter Regan and close friend Oz, in Puerto Rico, John Bekker, the reluctant private investigator from the Nero Award winning mystery novel With 6 You Get Wally finds his vacation cut short when on a hot night he can’t sleep and takes some fresh air on the balcony of his hotel room. Bekker’s hotel is directly across the...