She’d never felt so much a woman… — As a bank manager in a small midwestern town, Carla Parker was used to chauvinistic men. But industrialist Trent Campbell, the bank’s newest client, wasn’t the least bit fazed by females in power. He saw Carla as his equal — and that scared her. — Trent clearly […]
Cartoonist Greg Lyon made a healthy living at satire, but when doctors become his prime target, he’s told to take a break. He decides to walk from New York to California, but a bad fall in a little Indiana town puts him in need of one of those M.D.s he’s so fond of mocking. What […]
A haunted house brings them together. It doesn’t matter to Valerie Wiggins that most people believe Jason McLain killed his wife. She needs the three-time Oscar winner’s expertise in special effects if they are going to turn their local charity’s annual haunted house into a money maker. Besides, every since she first saw his picture […]
It’s P.J. Benson’s wedding day. It’s also the day she walks in on a bank robbery. During the ceremony she should be thinking of her vows, not how unusual the bank robber looked. Wade Kingsley wants her to stay out of trouble, especially now that she’s his wife, but trouble seems to find P.J., no […]
When an elderly woman hands P.J. Benson a briefcase and begs for her help, it’s just the beginning of a series of events that has P.J. wondering if she’s jinxed. Soon she’s sporting a black eye, her boyfriend, homicide detective Wade Kingsley, is avoiding her, her neighbor Nora Wright is still threatening her, and the […]
When Sheriff’s Detective Wade Kingsley’s boat explodes on Lake Michigan, he and his son survive while his ex-wife and her new husband die. The police consider Wade the prime suspect, but P.J. Benson, Wade’s girlfriend, is sure, no matter how much Wade didn’t want his ex to take their son to California, he would never […]
For P.J. Benson and her four-month-old Rhodesian Ridgeback, a relaxing afternoon walk in the woods turns into a harrowing experience that ends with the discovery of a man dying in her dining room. Soon she’s a suspect and her life is in danger. Part mystery and part suspense, THE CROWS includes wry humor combined with […]
AN ABSOLUTELY GRIPPING CRIME THRILLER WITH A MASSIVE TWIST For forty-four years Mary Harrington has lived in Rivershore, Michigan, a rural community of five thousand. During that time she owned a small book store, married the town dentist, and raised a son. Two-years ago she buried her husband. She’s a model citizen . . . with a secret. […]
A teenager is missing, and Officer Katherine Ward is assigned the case, never expecting it to parallel her own kidnapping experience seventeen years before. In Skagway, Alaska, the usual crimes faced by the police department’s small force are DUIs and missing bikes. Awards 2017 Royal Palm Literary Competition
Friend and former co-worker, Brenda Cox, said she was fine, but when P.J. hears that Brenda has died in a hit-and-run accident P.J. knows there’s more to the story.