A Pickleball Poison
When Esther drops with her drop shot on the Pickkleball court inner retirement community, amateur sleuth Angelina suspects foul play. As she uncovers clues and motives she also enhances her relationship with widower detective Guy Luccino. A fun cozy mystery revolving around America’s fastest growing sport.
Drawn To Murder
Gabriella Alegré draws caricatures and portraits of visitors on Pearl Street. It’s a fun place to be – until someone is murdered. Now, Gabriella must use her powers of artistic observation and attention to detail to find the killer. She is helped by Pearl Street’s living statues, musicians, a reclusive psychic who isn’t what she seems, and other buskers.
The Fatal Family Function
Jamie Sharpe is adoring her new role managing the Terrowin Hotel. But Grandpa Sharpe has alluded that the mysterious hotel, a legacy passed down from her uncle, could contain secrets and treasures too dangerous to unearth. When she’s invited to a gathering at the historic Story Mansion for the Gloucester family reunion, she eagerly accepts. Jamie is hoping to get the elderly Evelyn Gloucester, an old family friend of the Sharpes, to finally reveal some of the Terrowin’s carefully guarded secrets. But then she finds Evelyn’s dead body in the old servant’s quarters, and suddenly she’s swept into a new and more terrifying mystery. Which of Evelyn’s grandchildren could have killed her, and why? The answer is further complicated when Evelyn’s will mentions a priceless artifact hidden at the Terrowin many decades earlier. Each of the grandchildren begins their own quest scouring the deepest and darkest passageways within the Hotel. Jamie gets wrangled into the thrill of the hunt herself, but it’s a dangerous line she’s walking. With the police no closer to a suspect for the murder, can she solve the case and discover the treasure before it happens again?
The Glass House
At thirty-four, Santa Cruz County Law Librarian Pat Pirard is living her perfect life. She has a job she loves, she’s just purchased her dream car, and she is almost over being dumped by her long term boyfriend. But her thirty-fifth birthday marks the end of life as she knows it, and Pat has to reinvent herself. As a birthday present, Pat’s best friend enrolls her in a glass flower making class. She learns a lot in the class, but she never expects her final lesson will be all about murder.