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Imagine Monty Python writes horror...Welcome to the wonderfully horrific world of Bizarro - that dark, forbidding corner of the horror genre where absolutely anything goes and one may delve into the farthest recesses of the authors' warped imaginations. Prepare yourself, dear listener, for a journey into the unknown reaches of terror, from which you can only hope you will return with your sanity intact...

Hunter or hunted? Murder, mayhem, and chaos at Gentle Folks over fifty community! Private investigator, Ricky Steele has resolved to take only routine, safe, dull cases. This decision lasts about thirty seconds when a routine insurance investigation at Gentle Folks turns into a double homicide. In addition to searching for killers, Ricky and the team take on a missing persons case, which may or may not be related. What were two retired biological engineers, residents at Gentle Folks, doing mixed up with a sleazy realtor and a large tract of land north of the city? More importantly, why did ...

“As usual, the subject matter finds a way to stir our conscience, in this one, its street kids' travails” After discovering a child prostitute on her doorstep, P.I. Ricky Steele begins a wild search for her client’s 12-year-old friend. Her quest plunges her deep into Spindle City’s thriving underworld of drugs and prostitution. From there, the investigation takes her to the city’s wealthiest neighborhoods and its exclusive country club, worlds she happily left behind in her teens. On home turf with this outing, Ricky enlists the aid of friends like her hunky next door neighbor, ...

A reunion, a wedding and new love across the pond! During the holiday season, Ben and Leonora Morgan embark on a long-awaited fortieth anniversary trip to London to visit her brother Parker and his family. The trip, a gift from their six children, has been postponed several times in deference to Ben’s fragile heart. Now, their niece Mia’s New Year’s Eve wedding to wrangler, Brendan Statler, sets the wheels in motion. In true Morgan fashion, the entire family is now involved. The party includes the six Morgan offspring and families, Ben and Leonora’s dear friends, Spark and Helen ...

In the late 1800s, post-Civil War, two young Cheyenne sisters are wrenched from a loving family, kidnapped and incarcerated at Rose Academy, a harsh, Indian boarding school established to assimilate native young people, teach them English, and eradicate their knowledge of traditional ways, considered inferior to the ways of the Washita (whites).Forbidden to speak their native language, the sisters are whipped and punished, however, the school harsh life fails break their spirit. The eldest, Wind Flower, on the cusp of womanhood, excels academically, while continually planning their escape. ...

“I have read all kinds of mysteries, but this one was very different from the ones I have read. It has great characters and intriguing mystery to solve.” Trailing the philandering spouse of an old schoolmate, Ricky Steele soon finds her quarry dead. As she resolves to let the police take over, Celeste Higginbottom, the widow, slaps down a huge retainer, then insists on joining the investigation, outlandish, designer PI wardrobe and all. Did one of his lovers stab the unfaithful Bertie Higginbottom to death, or maybe one of his associates in a shadow company operating in a former nunnery...

This is a wonderful series.” Ricky Steele, a fifty-something newly minted PI, fresh out of private investigating school, is at it again. This time she is called to Windy Harbor to investigate the suspicious of the town gadfly, husband of her childhood friend, Karen Harp. Following Ron Harp’s funeral, Ricky immediately finds herself on the wrong side of local police as she becomes embroiled in small town politics, uncovers long held secrets, and confronts multiple murders. She also rekindles a romance with drop dead gorgeous, Jay Harp, the deceased’s older brother. As Ricky pushes and ...

“Hooked on the Ricky Steele series by this author.” Ricky Steele is on the case, this time hired to find two missed children, who have vanished, poof! Her investigation plunges Ricky into the underworld of child trafficking and exploitation as she moves from dark city streets to a wealthy beach front community, where evil lies behind a façade of gentility. Once again, Ricky is joined by her boarding school buddies, who are visiting for the weekend. Armed with pepper spray and stun guns, the three Rambettes jump right into the investigation, mayhem and humor following in their wake. In ...

The wait is over! Silencing the Pen, book four of the Roger and Bess Mysteries is here. This time, Roger Demaris brings his RHD team (Regional Homicide Division), including his second in command, Pete Dugan, to Gooseberry Island to investigate the brutal murder of young poet, Daisy Davis. A participant in a writers’ retreat also attended by Bess, Roger’s wife, her friend and colleague, Jane Fellows, Hillary Dobbs, Pete’s girlfriend, and a host of other colorful characters, Daisy is found dead in the newly constructed yoga studio where her mother, Fawn teaches. As RHD team and Bess and...

After their dear friend, Rosie is found dead, business partners, friends and one-time lovers, Juls Whitman and Tuck Potter find themselves tracking a serial killer. When they realize they might be in over their heads, the pair enlists the aid of family friend, Ricky Steele, a private investigator from the nearby city of Fall River. Together, the trio follow a puzzling trail of evidence, getting closer and closer to a monster who preys on handicapped women, then strews jigsaw puzzle pieces over their lifeless, mutilated bodies. With Juls’ limp and reconstructed knee, will she become the ...

“Fun, twisting, and a good old-fashioned mystery!” What safer haven could there be than a Quaker boarding school in a tiny New England coastal village? What secrets lie beneath its serene and quiet beauty? Out of the blue, the campus is laid open, the peace of Old Harbor Friends shattered by the murder of lascivious, comptroller, Milt Wickie. Wickie is discovered in his office, a scrimshaw knife protruding from his chest, a knife belonging to beloved teacher and widow, Bess Dore. Initially a suspect, the forty-two year old, Bess is soon exonerated and jumps headlong into a murder ...

Heart in pieces post-divorce, Lucy Winthrop visits Saguaro Valley, home of her mother's friends, Ben and Leonora Morgan. While staying at their ranch, Morgan's Run, she meets Ben's younger brother, Richard. Her new neighbor back east, Richard is a self-made billionaire who goes after what he wants, and he wants Lucy. Back home in New England, they begin a white hot love affair. As the heat pumps up, Lucy tries to step back, scared she is in too deep, too fast. Will this gorgeous Morgan man let her go? And, in pulling away, is she giving up a dream of happiness she never thought possible?As ...

A woman is the last thing on Ben Morgan’s mind as he comes home to Morgan’s Run, his family’s ranch in Saguaro Valley. Doctor’s orders. He’s home to heal, but the sooner he can get back to Santa Barbara, the better. Then he runs into Maggie Williams on Main Street, prompting vivid memories of a magical night, and Ben’s ailing heart skips a beat.

In this east -- west love story, smart, sexy sixty-somethings, billionaire, Spark Foster and artist, Helen Winthrop, decide to take their friendship to the next level in a story that sizzles with passion and heat. All is not rosy, however, when Helen and her daughter, Hazel land in Saguaro Valley. Sparks fly for these two, threatening to tear apart a relationship that has been building for years. Will Helen’s painful past and the objections of his daughter Amy drive these lovers apart? Join these two beloved characters in book 15 in the Morgan’s Run series.

After a scorching divorce, Tom Jacobi is left burned, the ashes of his life scattered all around him. Attempting to heal, he leaves his home in Montana and comes to Saguaro Valley. There he settles into a job as assistant manager at the magnificent Valley Stables surrounded by rough cowboys, prized thoroughbreds and wild mustangs. When he meets Grace McGraw the roughhewn, yet carefully sheltered world, he has created is softened, the fires of anguish quenched by love. A Saguaro Valley native, Grace is consumed by the day-to-day care of her alcoholic father and her struggles to keep their ...

Gail Morgan has never left home. An accomplished PR person for her father’s companies, her dad calls her his little hedgehog because, although open and in control in business, Gail is closed and prickly when it comes to her personal life. That is until she meets woodworker and lobsterman, Tim Miller and her well-ordered world is burst wide open. Dubbed the ‘village Heathcliff,’ this gorgeous, mysterious man has a dark past. Drawn to Tim like a moth to a flame, Gail plunges into a white hot love affair. Tragedy strikes when someone from Tim’s past reappears and Gail’s heart is ...

Polly Granger comes to Morgan’s Run to help run the ranch’s new day care, never dreaming she’ll find love with the scruffy, gorgeous Kevin Larrabee, a contractor, whose crew is building a thoroughbred farm and training center north of the ranch for Ben Morgan Senior and his buddy, Spark Foster. From the moment they meet, Polly’s fragile heart belongs to Kevin. Seventeen years her senior and divorced, he loves her more than he’s ever loved any woman, but decides he’s too old for the beautiful schoolteacher. Then, Kevin learns of a child from his past who might be his son and his ...

Hoping a fresh start will be good for him and his two young children, widower Gus Casey takes a job as assistant trainer at Spark Foster and Ben Morgan Senior’s thoroughbred training facility north of Morgan’s Run. A deathbed promise to his wife, never marry or have children with another woman, seems reasonable until he begins a white hot affair with teacher Lynn Manguilli. Crazy about the handsome, horse whisperer, Lynn’s heart is shattered when Gus’ promise comes between them. Will these two star-crossed lovers find a way to be together? Come join the Morgan’s Run crew for this ...

When a resident of the Leeside Folk Villages is murdered, members of the community's mystery book club decide to investigate. This heart stopping, cozy mystery, spins-off from the beloved Roger and Bess Mysteries, and is the first book in a new traditional detective series, The Mapletree Murder Club Mysteries. Set in an over fifty-five community, the oceanside area is home to most of the group of mature amateur sleuths. All retired, the seven group members have unique skills, talents and backgrounds—a former investigator for Homeland Security, doctor, librarian, and writers among them. ...

“There is much to enjoy armchair sleuthing among the old and new characters who people this high spirited sequel to the Quaker school series debut title A Friend of Silence. Whodunit? Mum's the word...” A shocking murder on the eve of a wedding sends Roger Demaris, and his elite homicide team to the village of Old Harbor where the son of the village’s wealthiest citizen is found dead in the woods, an arrow through his heart. No hunting accident, Demaris’ team pursues a ruthless killer as they delve into the victim’s past and what lies beneath the silence of the small village and ...