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Soon after her husband becomes headmaster of struggling Bryn Derwyn Academy, Ginger Barnes learns that a murder on the campus can kill a school’s reputation in a heartbeat. To move the scandal off the front page before the school goes under, Gin attempts to hurry the investigation along. Will her amateur sleuthing save her husband’s career and her family’s new home? Or will risking the wrath of a killer prove to be the most dangerous thing she’s ever done? Writer's Digest Award Winning Author
When her cousin Michelle is hospitalized to save her pregnancy, Ginger Barnes rushes to Norfolk, Virginia, to help any way she can. A player for the Tomcat’s pro football team has been murdered, and Michelle is terrified her husband Doug will be accused of the crime. With cause! The two quarterbacks have been rivals since college, and Doug’s only alibi is Michelle. Gin tries hard to keep to the sidelines but soon gives in and tackles the high-profile case head-on. Why not? She’s a savvy football fan, an experienced amateur sleuth, and the goal is to save an innocent child’s life. Writer's Digest Award Winning Author
"This book could easily sit on the shelf with traditionally published novels and beat them hands down." Judge #18, Honorable Mention in genre fiction, Writer’s Digest Lauren Beck’s friends, phone, home, credit, and credibility are gone, severed with surgical precision by an enemy intent on framing her for murder. Is it one of the insureds she was hired to investigate? The fellow employee she upstaged? Does the daughter of her landlady and dear friend, Corinne Wilder, hate her even more than she thought? An ex-cop who survived cancer knows how to fight for her life, but can she rely on her wits to outsmart this cunning criminal? "Strong and feisty, Lauren also displays a tender side that ...
Just a few days into her new job as director of a busy historical society and museum nestled in the mountains of quaint Ryland, Maine, flatlander Julie Williamson discovers all is not as it should be. Her dream job is more of a nightmare. She expected to find an eccentric board of trustees, a cool reception from the assistant director who had wanted her job, and a necessary adjustment to small-town life, but she didn't expect that some of the museum's most valuable artifacts, including a letter from Abraham Lincoln to Hannibal Hamlin, would quickly turn up missing. And when a murder hits especially close to home for Julie, she becomes embroiled in an ever-widening and complex mystery. "Stealing History" is sure to enthrall readers who love to curl up with a good mystery, especially one that weaves details of small-town life, delightful characters and history into a suspenseful tale that keeps them guessing up until the last page.
Stockholders send you death threats, and your son-in-law/Chief Financial Officer just committed suicide. Now something is off about the blonde hanging onto the deceased's remaining brother. Allow her to attend the Caribbean funeral your daughter planned? Friends close/enemies closer. A nod, and ex-cop Lauren Beck is in. Big mistake.
Quiet Beech Tree Lane has suddenly become a lightning rod for crime. First, Ginger Barnes's friend is murdered by a home intruder. Thefts and threats and smashed mailboxes follow; but it's the mugging of elderly eccentric Letty MacNair that compels Gin to dust off her deerstalker. If an impoverished old woman qualifies as a target, who could be next?
On the heels of a nasty divorce, a dog trainer is blamed for her ex-husband’s suspicious death. Evidence suggests she programmed their jointly owned guard dog to attack the prominent diet doctor, but did she? As the accused is being led off in handcuffs, she begs her friend and sometime sleuth, Ginger Barnes, to save the valuable German shepherd’s life. Impossible unless Gin can first vindicate her friend. Writer's Digest Award Winning Author
Fierce competitor Iffy Bigelow gets herself strangled at the world-famous Philadelphia Flower Show; and if she ever wants to hear the end of it, amateur-detective Ginger Barnes must unearth whoever killed her mother's dear old friend.
Men have once again become an issue for amateur sleuth Ginger Barnes--men who abuse their wives, men capable of murder, and men who ask her out.While working on a DIY project at her newlywed daughter's house, a bag of bricks is thrown from the neighboring third-story window. Next, pops that sound like muffled gunshots have Gin racing for her phone. Eric, who lives in the house with his grandmother, claims she's obsessed with mystery novels. Yet after the septuagenarian falls down a flight of stairs, she's so frantic to keep Eric away that Gin must intervene. Was the fall actually attempted murder?In her husband's eyes, Cissie Voight can't do anything right. Gin occasionally helps the frazzled young mother, and when she needs a dresser carried upstairs, Gin brings Eric along. Bad move! The electricity between the two new acquaintances sparks a chilling premonition. This time Gin's good intentions will produce grave consequences--for everyone involved.
Ginger Barnes is a savvy football fan and experienced amateur sleuth, but the front-page murder of a pro quarterback just might be too far out of her league.