A winter storm brings more than just snow to Rainy’s doorstep. It also brings Mack Mercy, her former boss at Capitol Cases, and a whole heap of trouble.Coming home from a conference, Mack’s car skids off an icy road during the storm. He manages to make his way to Rainy’s, where he is soon introduced to the townsfolk in Latney. But as charming as the town appears to be, Mack soon discovers all is not as it seems in the tiny town Rainy relocated to…especially when his car disappears from the side of the road. And especially when Sheriff Lewis accuses him of a crime he didn’t commit.With Mack stranded in Latney and holed up in her house, Rainy must put her own pressing personal issues on the backburner to help her former boss. Even if he doesn’t want it.Because she knows what charges he’s up against and who’s leveling them. And she knows Sheriff Lewis will do whatever it takes to make those charges...

Beauty is only skin deep...especially when someone ransacks and robs a freelancing senior citizen's blossoming beauty business. Sunny Springfield has one thing she's supposed to be focused on: an impending corporate visit at Oasis Ridge, the retirement home where she serves as the activities director. But when a resident's apartment is broken into just days before corporate arrives, Sunny takes it upon herself to figure out who is responsible for the crime. With her boss in panic mode over the upcoming visit, Sunny must navigate unrealistic demands along with her own impulse to solve the mystery. As she digs deeper, she discovers there are plenty of people who had reason to commit the crime...including her boss. New clues emerge as the visit grows nearer, and Sunny soon realizes there's more at stake than just solving this mystery. Because, if she isn't careful, her job might be on the line. And so might her life.

It's the most wonderful time of the year...until a grinch steals Christmas… The holidays are here, and Daisy and her family can’t wait for Moose River’s annual holiday festival and parade. But when a scrooge decides to undeck the halls and steal the town’s decorations, including Moose River’s very own giant Santa Claus, the celebration is immediately put in danger. No one knows what's happened to the missing items. And no one is claiming responsibility. But everyone in town knows that if there are no decorations, there’s no Christmas. Period. Daisy realizes if she wants to save the holiday, she’ll need to figure out exactly what happened to Santa and his missing reindeer. She quickly discovers an awful lot of people might have reason to sabotage the town’s festivities. An ousted member of the Christmas planning committee. A bitter ex-wife. And even Santa Claus himself. With the clock counting down, Daisy knows she needs to work fast. Because Christmas is depending on her. This is a 25,000 word short holiday story featuring the characters of the Moose River Mystery series. It's a quick read that will have you laughing out loud and put you in the mood for the holidays! **

Wedding bells are ringing...and people are dying.Rainy's daughter, Laura, is in panic mode. The wedding she thought she had months to plan has suddenly been moved up, all thanks to her fiance's ailing grandmother. Desperate to help, Rainy steps in and offers her farmhouse in Latney as a venue and enlists all of her friends in town to help pull off the impromptu ceremony.But when someone turns up dead just a few days before the wedding, things immediately go off the rails...especially when Rainy realizes that nearly everyone involved in the celebration is a suspect.Rainy does her best to keep the wedding on track while she searches for the killer. Even when the sheriff sets his sights on her as a suspect, and even when the clues she unearths point to the people she's closest to.As the big day approaches, Rainy knows she has to act fast. Because if she doesn't, there might not be a happily ever after for anyone.

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas at Oasis Ridge. Except it isn’t December, and no one's in a very jolly mood. Sunny's attempts to fill the holidays with events for the residents at Oasis Ridge are once again being thwarted by her boss, Anne. When Anne gets in a serious auto accident, however, and is temporarily replaced by an enthusiastic trainee, it's impossible not to notice how everyone's spirits are lifted. At least until Anne tells Sunny she believes the accident was no accident and begs Sunny to investigate. As Sunny digs into the circumstances of Anne's accident, she reluctantly admits that it seems as if someone set Anne up. The problem is that she's finding too many people with both motives and the ability to have sabotaged her. And all of those suspects are her friends. With clues piling up and Anne impatient for answers, Sunny knows she needs to solve the case quickly. Especially when the stakes are raised and more than jobs are on the line…residents’ lives are, too. **

Dinner time isn't supposed to be deadly.Not at home and not at a restaurant, and most certainly not at Oasis Ridge, the Florida retirement home where Sunny Springfield works as the activities director.But when a resident keels over at the dinner table, Sunny finds herself donning a new role…especially when she and her co-workers begin to suspect that the death wasn't accidental.The more Sunny looks, the more she is certain that foul play is involved. The cozy retirement community is filled with far more secrets and jealousy than she imagined, and she soon realizes she will have to tread carefully as she dives deeper into the mystery.Because she is convinced that this resident was murdered.And she just might be next.

Rainy might own a farm, but she doesn’t know a thing about cows. Especially when one goes missing and she’s enlisted to help find it.Mikey, her favorite chef at the Wicked Wich, is striking out on his own, opening a restaurant in nearby Winslow. But when the world’s largest cow statue he’s erected for the front of the restaurant goes missing, it threatens to throw his entire venture into chaos.Rainy is determined to figure out who stole the cow and return it to its rightful owner before the big day. But it turns out there’s a long list of suspects who might want to sabotage Mikey’s new venture, suspects who might just do anything to ensure his restaurant is a failure.With time running out, Rainy dives in head first and soon realizes that finding the cow and the thief will be trickier than she anticipated.And far more dangerous.

Joe Tyler has debts to pay. John Anchor helped Joe find his daughter and now he's asking Joe to repay the favor by locating an employee who has disappeared after stealing money from Anchor. But it's not as simple as finding the man and finding the money. With Anchor, everything is always complicated. And dangerous. As Joe contemplates how to comply with Anchor's request, he's having second thoughts about his investigative career. He wants something more stable, more normal so that he can be home with Elizabeth, Lauren and the new baby that's on the way. All he needs to do is satisfy Anchor so he can get on with his life. But satisfying Anchor may require a bigger payment than Joe ever realized.

All Daisy Savage wants is a vacation. A romantic getaway with her husband. Seven blissful days at a fancy resort to relax, recharge and renew.What she gets instead is a dead body at a campground.When Daisy and her husband Jake head north to Minnesota's lake country for a weeklong stay at a lakeside retreat, they're surprised to find out the place they've won a trip to is neither lakeside or much of a retreat. Stumbling upon a dead body makes the place even less attractive.The charms of the campground begin to grow on Daisy, however, and she can't help but be troubled by the bad luck that seems to be raining down on Delilah, the quirky owner of Windy Vista. The more questions she asks, the more things don't add up. And the more curious Daisy becomes.Despite Jake's pleas to end her amateur investigating, Daisy finds herself in the middle of trying to save the campground from ruin. Doing so, though, puts her in the middle of vandals, liars, thieves and...a murderer.Which turns out to be anything but a vacation.

Joe Tyler is done with investigations. Or at least he tells himself he is.He has a new job teaching history at the local high school, and his daughter, Elizabeth, is no longer at home, as she's living nearby, in her third year of college.But something isn’t right. Not with Joe…and not with Elizabeth, either.When Mike Lorenzo asks Joe for help in finding his missing nephew, Joe doesn’t turn him down. He owes Mike, for favors too numerous to mention, and as his search for the kid intensifies, he realizes he’s looking for more than just clues to solve this particular case.He’s looking for answers to bigger questions, questions he didn’t even know he was asking.And Elizabeth is, too.

Noah Braddock is just living from wave to wave, catching a nice break from his private eye business. So when Peter Pluto asks Noah to look for his missing younger brother, Linc, Noah takes the case reluctantly-and quickly finds out that Linc is not your average undergrad.Aided by his friend Carter and a beautiful Rastafarian coed, Noah discovers that Linc stole some money from a white supremacist group. The skinheads will stop at nothing to find Linc-and when Noah wakes up at the bottom of a canyon, beaten and bruised, with a corpse lying next to him, he realizes he's next on their list...and in for the ride of his life.

San Diego P.I. Noah Braddock has a six-pack in the fridge, a solid beach view, and a killer past that's come knocking. The snobby mother of Kate, his old high school girlfriend, claims that her daughter is missing, and mom thinks Noah can find her for old time's sake. But what Noah discovers about Kate is hardly the stuff of bittersweet reunions. In fact, it's murder.