Beautiful Sarah Winslow fell in love with handsome and sweet-talking Jackson Talbott while in college. She married him right out of law school when the couple eloped to Las Vegas, despite her family's concerns about Jack's motives. Sara thought she found her forever love.Five years later, Sara has suffered one too many blows at the hands of the man who claimed to love her. She feels trapped by Jack's violent temper and his love of other women. How can a divorce attorney admit her husband's abuses and infidelity? After a nasty scene, Jack pushes Sara down the stairs. The young attorney grabs her beloved dog, flees her home, and files for divorce.The Galveston County Sheriff's Office discovers Jackson's body at Red Fish Island the day after Sara blows up during a property settlement conference. She knows the police suspect she murdered him. To make matters worse, she learns Jack stole a valuable antique from the mob, and now they want to kill her.Will she have to die to prove her innocence? Can she escape the mob contract on her head and prove her innocence, or will Jack's mafia ties destroy her?

One dead body.Two dead bodies.Things are starting to get out of hand.In need of a break from their consulting work with the SBI, Thomas Gabriel and Rose Daniels go to visit his aunt in the idyllic town of New Bern, North Carolina. But when a local electrician is found dead in the park, their vacation is cut short and they are plunged into a mystery that will reach to the very heights of power in small town America. The local police are sure they know who committed the murder, but are they right? And if they’re wrong, then the real murderer is still on the loose. Thomas and Rose will have to set their vacation aside and do what they do best. But will anybody listen to them?

Deep Roots. Dark Secrets.As the morning light reveals the grisly discovery of a young woman's body in Lost Trail, Montana, fear grips the small town. Dispatcher Zak Waller prefers working behind the scenes in the Sheriff’s Office , but when the Sheriff is quick to pin the death on an unknown outsider, Zak starts his own sleuthing. His instincts tell him there's more to the story than what the Sheriff is saying. He knows better than most that appearances can be deceiving, and secrets run deep in this tight-knit community.Desperate and out of options, Tiff Masterson has returned to her hometown, only to find her family at the center of another tragedy. The young victim worked at her family’s Christmas tree farm.Meanwhile, as tensions escalate within the community, Justin Pittman, the town lawyer, finds himself drawn into the fray. His responsibility to uphold justice won’t allow him to ignore the growing unease in his town.United by their deep roots in the community, the trio bands together to uncover the truth. But evil has dug deeper in their town than they can imagine.

Did you believe writing was a safe pastime?It was not the first time bestselling author Sheila Armstrong had died on stage, but it would most certainly be the last.DCI Alex Warren and his girlfriend, D.I. Sandra McKinnon, return from a short holiday, but hardly manage to step from the plane before they're called to investigate the suspicious death.Sheila, a member of Eastfarm Writers, has been stabbed to death on stage during a rehearsal of a play she’d written. Her death mimics the plot.Within hours, Sandra is roped into investigating a separate series of crimes, which appears to be mob-related. As the enquiries run parallel, they struggle to make progress while supporting each other.But can there be a connection?This is a standalone mystery, and can be enjoyed even if you haven't read other books in the series.Praise from readers:????? - "Fast-paced and kept me guessing until the end... Wonderful read."????? - "I loved the witty dialogue, colorful characters, and various vernacular voices, not to mention the topography of Scotland. A dazzling murder mystery."

In Tokyo, murder’s easy to hide. Winner 2018 Shelf Unbound Best Independently Published BookWinner 2017 Book Excellence Awards Best Mystery Solo MedalistWinner 2017 New Apple Awards for Excellence Detective Hiroshi Shimizu investigates white-collar crime in Tokyo. When an American businessman turns up dead, his mentor Takamatsu calls him out to the site of a grisly murder. A glimpse from a security camera video suggests the killer might be a woman. Hiroshi quickly learns how close homicide and suicide can appear in a city full of high-speed trains just a step—or a push—away. Takamatsu drags Hiroshi out to the hostess clubs and skyscraper offices of Tokyo in search of the killer.Hiroshi goes deeper and deeper into Tokyo’s intricate, perilous market for buying and selling the most expensive land in the world. He teams up with ex-sumo wrestler Sakaguchi to scour Tokyo’s sacred temples, corporate offices and industrial wastelands to find out why one woman was driven to murder. After years in America and lost in neat, clean spreadsheets, Hiroshi confronts the stark realities of the biggest city in the world, where inside information can travel in a flash from the insiders at top investment firms to street-level punks and teenage hostesses, everyone scrambling for their cut of Tokyo’s lucrative land deals. Hiroshi’s determined to cut through Japan’s ambiguities—and dangers—to find the murdering ex-hostess before she extracts her final revenge—which just might be him.

A Cop. A Killer. A Secret That Could Destroy Them All.Jamie McKay is stuck at a crossroads—torn between settling down or finally chasing something more. But before she can decide, a brutal crime shatters her world, throwing her straight into the path of a killer.Kat McKay has spent years upholding the law in L.A., but one too many broken rules have left her career hanging by a thread. When devastating news pulls her back to the hometown she swore never to return to, she has no choice but to seek help from the one person who has every reason to hate her.As old wounds resurface and deadly secrets unravel, the McKays must race against time to uncover the truth—before it buries them for good.Fans call this series “simply unputdownable.” Find out why—grab your copy today!