THE CONJURER The debut novel in the elegant and richly nuanced series featuring Martha Beale, a very wealthy young woman from Philadelphia’s highest social circles. Set in 1842 THE CONJURER begins with the disappearance of Martha’s father, famed Philadelphia financier Lemuel Beale. Martha instigates a search for him alongside Thomas Kelman, a member of the mayor’s commission inspecting crime and corruption in Philadelphia. His investigations into the ritual slayings of several young girl prostitutes raise a likely suspect in the form of renowned conjurer and clairvoyant, Eusapio Paladino...

DECEPTION’S DAUGHTER, the second in the Martha Beale series. When the daughter of one of Philadelphia's finest families disappears, Martha Beale—the fiercely independent society lady first introduced in THE CONJURER—once more joins forces with her secret beau, Thomas Kelman, to track the heiress...

WITHOUT FEAR, the third in the Martha Beale series, exposes the iconoclastic heroine to the grandiose – albeit sinister - realm of the former Comte de Survilliers, Joseph Bonaparte, at his estate Point Breeze on the Delaware River while also drawing her into the dangerous world of Philadelphia’s textile workers. The time is March, 1843; the city (“the Athens of America”) is a place divided between the heights of culture and sophistication, as epitomized by the Bonaparte family; and the depths of squalor experienced by the mill hands and other common laborers.

When a headless corpse is discovered at Point Breeze, Martha is drawn into a shadowy world of mistaken identities and thwarted desires that transcend social class...

When television personality Lewis Osbourne-Walker buys Creekmarsh Place, near Steeple Martin in Kent, Libby Sarjeant's son Adam is employed to help with the renovation of the garden. What he doesn't expect is to uncover a long buried corpse...

Bella wants to know more about her family, particularly when a body is found in her local theatre...

When a body is discovered on a rocky little island in the middle of Nethergate Bay the media swoop on the seaside town. Soon an enquiring hack discovers that local resident Fran Castle, has previously aided the police using her psychic abilities...

Could it have been murder? When old Eleanor Bridges dies on her birthday as The Laurels nursing home, no-one except her niece, Fran Castle, suspects anything. But when the will goes missing...

Year after year, the villagers near Stanton Moor celebrate May Day with bonfires and the laying of rowan branches to seek protection for home and cattle. But the men who gathered this May evening hadn’t come for blessings. They had come for murder. The dead body is discovered on a lonely moor, decapitated in the fashion of a Muslim killing of sacrificial sheep or chickens. Which focuses the suspicion on the Muslim community, since the victim and his family are Pakistanis. Does someone in the village resent these outsiders? Or is their small import shop too much competition for another local business?

The CID Team from the Derbyshire Constabulary are called in to investigate and soon a series of decapitated animals--sheep and rabbits--appears on the moor. Is the sheep, the style of death or the location linked with the man’s murder...

Planning New Year’s resolutions to rid her life of all things unhealthy, Elizabeth Parker dumps fatty foods, processed sugar, and her two-timing boyfriend. An invitation to a “How to Host a Murder Party” at her Aunt Winnie’s new Cape Cod B&B comes just in time, rescuing her from a lonely New Year’s Eve with her self-proclaimed bible, Pride and Prejudice. Upon her arrival, Elizabeth finds a few surprises at Longbourn: the hunky young British guest who seems very interested in getting to know her and her co-worker and childhood nemesis, Peter McGowan, a man she suspects has matured only in chronological years. All this before someone is actually murdered at the dinner party...

Freelance writer Jaine Austen is moving on up! A cushy new advertising gig promises champagne wishes and caviar dreams, but Jaine soon discovers she’s not the only one in town who’s making a killing…

Without a job or a date in sight, Jaine is equally out of luck in finance and romance. So when her friend Lance offers to treat her to brunch at the Four Seasons, Jaine leaps at the chance like a fashionista at a pair of half-price Louboutins. They’ve barely made it through the menu when Lance spots his friend Bunny. Dressed like a million bucks—and probably worth twice that—Bunny is the new trophy wife of mattress maven Marvin Cooper.

When Bunny generously offers Jaine a gig writing Marv’s new advertising campaign, Jaine accepts the job, and an invitation to her upcoming soirée. But at the party Bunny cruelly rules the Cooper mansion with a fist full of martinis, abusing terrified staff and her browbeaten husband alike. It seems like this society girl could use a good kick in the assets. Indeed, before the evening is over, someone poisons the D-cup diva. Dead must be the new black.

The police arrest Lance, but Jaine knows his murderous urges end at her closet door. She sets out to clear his name and discovers a list of suspects longer than Bunny’s credit card bill...

Emma Winberry, The Accidental Sleuth, returns for another adventure in The Stranger in the Dressing Room. This time she and her significant other, Nate Sandler, are supernumeraries at the Midwest Opera for an upcoming production of The Ghosts of Versailles. This tile turns prophetic when the lead soprano screams that there is a strange man lurking in her dressing room. Although a police search turns up no evidence that anyone was there, the cast and crew are left on edge. And nerves become more frayed as the ‘stranger’ is seem again and again but never caught despite numerous attempts to apprehend him. Emma’s sixth sense tells her he may be more than he seems. The rehearsals continue to be fraught with mishaps. When a large sum of money is stolen from the office and a guard seriously injured, everyone assumes it is the work of the mysterious ‘stranger.’ Everyone except Emma...

The year is 1950. The place is Hillside State Mental Hospital located outside of Chicago. At the time, the treatment of the mentally ill was archaic, consisting of hydrotherapy, electroshock therapy, Insulin coma therapy, and, in the extreme, pre-frontal lobotomy. Tranquilizers were not yet available.

Mary Lou Hammond and Kate Stephens were among the student nurses taking their three month psychiatric rotation at Hillside.
Mary Lou is an extremely sensitive young lady. She begins dreaming about a woman in the early part of the century. The dreams tell a continuing story. Soon Mary Lou finds messages in mirror image writing from the woman in her dreams, Margaret Montague. She claims to have died in 1911. If this entity does exist, what does she want from Mary Lou...

The action takes place on an otherwise deserted island in the Florida Keys, where a number of guests assemble in an old Dominican Priory for a "mystery weekend"...

A mystery thriller, set against the spectacular scenic backdrop of an imaginary health farm in the small mountain township of Blackheath in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales, west of Sydney, Australia...

Thrilling action, suspense and mystery abound in this historical novel, inspired by the books of Kings and Chronicles in the Old Testament of the Bible. Highlighting the latter days of King Solomon in the city of Jerusalem in Ancient Israel, the novel is a real page-turner that moves with the speed of an arrow. In addition to the aged King Solomon, Biblical characters include Jeroboam, a former governor in Israel, accused of plotting against Solomon and now exiled in Ancient Egypt...

Ancient Egypt is the setting for this mystery/suspense thriller in which the Jewish exile, Jeroboam (later king of Israel), is tricked by Pharaoh Shishak into not only helping him uncover the murderer of his Chief Counselor...

A brutal murder, a suspect with a strange story, a missing woman with secrets to hide...

How far would you go to win your lifelong dream?

When Zoë Whipple agrees to make a documentary about a hockey team’s season, she doesn’t sign on for scandal, crime and murder. But she discovers that players, rabid to win the championship, don’t let morality or the law stand in the way of their ambitions.

When a rookie dies from cardiac arrest, Zoë is saddened but not suspicious until another player, in the grip of ’roid rage, goes berserk on the ice and ends up in the hospital. Digging into the mess reveals illegal painkillers and steroid abuse among most of the team...

EVERY MARRIAGE NEEDS A TOUCH OF MYSTERY. OR DOES IT?
 
In the new free South Africa of 1994, men are still boss, women carry handguns for self-protection, and some mistakes can change your life forever.
 
When a body is found during their weekend away with friends...

When Victor Fitzgerald is killed by a falling statue, Lisa Donahue becomes Interim Director of her Boston University museum.
 
Suddenly she’s juggling murder, artifact theft, and a complicated move into a new building...

Lisa and James take an overdue honeymoon to Egypt. While visiting
fabulous monuments and archaeological sites, they stumble upon a
plot to infect western tourists with smallpox...

Mitchelstown Castle in 1786 Ireland hums with intrigue. The new young governess, Mary Wollstonecraft (future author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman), witnesses the stabbing of the Anglo-Irish lord's illegitimate son. Irish rebel Liam Donovan becomes the prime suspect, but Mary, champion of the oppressed, and susceptible to Liam's charm, tries to prove him innocent...