JUST OUT

#2 in Carolina Cozy Mystery Series

Can a female amateur sleuth and the small-town detective peel back the lies before they find another body? Or is he part of the problem?

Gemma and her police detective boyfriend are on the Carolina coast for a vacation and a bit of work. But she is soon pulled into the mystery of the death of a museum docent, disappearing artifacts and a sketchy museum director.

Follow her as she tries to distinguish friend from foe in the ever-complicating terrain. And finds herself in the middle of a drug deal.

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She traded the rat race to work in an academic lab. Instead of peace and quiet, she discovers jealousy, treachery and murder. And she may be next.

COVID, a stressful job and the end of Gemma’s marriage signaled a need to change everything in her life. Finding a job in public information in a university affiliated lab near Raleigh run by a world-renowned researcher seemed like a dream come true. Lured by warmer weather, a pay raise, cheaper rent and a scenic commute, she wasn’t prepared for another cutthroat environment. Or the murder of a researcher in a chimp’s cage.

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She’s rich and bored. This homicide has no motive. Determined to get to the truth, can a socialite solve a curious killing?

Boston, 1933. Amanda Burnside yearns for more. Dutifully hitting the social scene and volunteering for charity, the young former debutante is delighted to be dating a doctor yet wishes for excitement. But she wasn’t expecting a stroll on Boston Common with her beau to end with the discovery of a dead body.

Shocked by the experience, Amanda ignores her parents’ wishes and resolves to follow the clues to uncover the perpetrator. But with shady characters, ruthless bootleggers and wily politicians all fighting to keep the details buried, the plucky amateur sleuth fears the answers may land her in the morgue.

Can Amanda unmask a murderer without becoming the next victim? 

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She turned down marriage to prove her independence. What she didn’t bargain for was a murder. 

1933. Amanda Burnside’s new project is creating a children’s clinic in the colorful, ethnic, under-served North End. It’s busy, noisy, bustling, and she’s challenged by the differences from her upper-class upbringing. She soon questions her choices when she stumbles across the murder of a young man. Warned off from asking further questions only fuels her curiosity to solve the case. 

Detective Halloran is assigned to sift through the motives and evasions of too many suspects. But his sights are also set on Amanda who injects herself into the investigation. When she uncovers the clue that sends the police in the right direction, she unwittingly puts herself in the crosshairs of a kidnapping plot.

Will she be able to help solve the crime? Or be its next victim?

Something is fishy in City Hall.

She’s excited by a new job assignment working with the Mayor. But things quickly get dark as she finds murder and deceit lurk in the hallways of City Hall.

Public servants in City Hall aren’t being very honest with the public. When a citizen reports an employee’s attempt at extortion, all hell breaks loose. And then that worker is murdered.

Detective Halloran investigates with the perspective of his girlfriend, Amanda, an amateur sleuth. It’s his job on the line but she is pulled in out of curiosity and to avoid the drama at home.

As they dig deeper, they find another layer of corruption that points to people in high places. The detective and the sleuth are faced with scheming civils servants, complacent bosses, a raft of suspects, murky motives and flimsy alibis.

Can they uncover the culprit with so many people and higher ups blocking their progress?

AND OF COURSE, A CHRISTMAS MYSTERY

When her boss resigns, she’s out of a job and at loose ends. But it is when her friend’s father is killed that she hones her skills as an amateur sleuth. Can Amanda track down the killer before someone else dies? 

No one knows why her friend’s father was in the family’s vacation home in Hyannis on Cape Cod in early December. The discovery that he changed his will and was poisoned confuses his family and baffles the local sheriff.

An ongoing property feud with a neighbor, a disgraced young man wronged by the family, an art dealer who suspects something is fishy, and a resentful brother are just some of the suspects. Amanda uses her detection powers to great effect, but in solving the mystery, is she putting herself in mortal danger?

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She lives a comfortable life But when a posh neighbor is murdered, she fears she’ll lose her hard-won independence.

Boston, 1930’s. Amanda Burnside feels she’s coming into her own. Having finally convinced her parents that working in her father’s law firm as an investigator is an acceptable job for a young woman, the former debutante believes anything is possible. But when a client’s husband is killed, she fears the sordid details will derail her career plans.

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