Bessie is both excited and apprehensive about her new role in Andrew Cheatham’s cold case unit. When the first case involves a missing five-year-old who may well have been murdered by her own father, Bessie has even more second thoughts.?

As if Andrew’s cold case weren’t enough to keep her busy, Sandra, the young woman who works at the shop near Bessie’s house, has just been accused of stealing from her employer. Sandra is desperate to clear her name, and adamant that Bessie not involve the police.

?Can Bessie work with her friends and the two Scotland Yard detectives on the cold case unit to work out what really happened to little Rachel Adams? Can she help Sandra clear her name and find out who has really been stealing from the shop? Or is she in over her head, working with police detectives who don’t seem at all interested in her opinion??

Goldie Weston Historical Mysteries 1920s light and clean cozy Book 2

Goldie Weston has no trouble offering solutions in her ladies’ column for household challenges and matters of the heart. It’s her own relationships that cause her problems. Is it any wonder why?Her mother is resolved to marry her off. Her flapper-aged sister is determined to join the world of bootleggers and rum runners. And her brother Hap is a prime suspect for murder. When Hap isn’t busy dodging the police, he’s fox trotting his way across a dance floor.While chasing clues to clear her brother, Goldie is simultaneously tasked to convince him to give up his hapless nightlife and join the world of respectable businessmen. She has her work cut out for her when he refuses to abandon both the music and the dancing he loves. Finding the solution to this challenge forces Goldie to follow Hap’s fox trotting connections into a world of gangsters, bootleggers, and rum runners.Doing so brings her closer to the special agent tasked with arresting her brother for murder. Given Hap’s proximity to the victim at the time of death, Zebulon Masterson is convinced of his guilt. Goldie must perform some fancy footsteps to keep her role with the newspaper a secret, solve problems for members of her family, and find a killer with a special agent hard on her stylish heels.A light and clean cozy roaring twenties historical mystery that offers a look into life in the early 1920s.

"Carter's writing is on target." -

Publishers Weekly

A curmudgeon. An iconoclast. A loner. That's how people describe Garrison Gage, and that's when they're being charitable.After his wife's brutal murder in New York, and Gage himself is beaten nearly to death, the hobbled private investigator retreats three thousand miles to the quaint coastal town of Barnacle Bluffs, Oregon. He spends the next five years in a convalescent stupor, content to bide his time filling out crossword puzzles and trying to forget that his wife's death is his fault. But all that changes when he discovers the body of a young woman washed up on the beach, and his conscience draws him back into his old occupation - forcing him to confront the demons of his own guilt before he can hope to solve the girl's murder.

"Irresistible for an old John D. MacDonald fan like me . . . Recommended."

-- Brandywine Books

"The Gray and Guilty Sea is quite an enjoyable novel that engages a reader on multiple levels."

-- Stimulated Outlet Book Reviews

"Carter's outstanding debut crime novel set on the Oregon coast and starring a misanthropic former detective is as much a fascinating character study as it is an original story."

- Michael J. Totten, author of The Road to Fatima Gate

Raymond Donne wasn't always a schoolteacher. Not only did he patrol the streets of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, as one of New York's Finest, but being the nephew of the chief of detectives, he was expected to go on to bigger things. At least he was until the accident that destroyed his knees. Unable to do the job the way he wanted, he became a teacher in the same neighborhood, and did everything he could to put the force behind him and come to terms with the change.Then Frankie Rivas, a student in Ray's class and a baseball phenom, stops showing up to school. With Frankie in danger of failing and missing out on a scholarship, Ray goes looking for him, only to find Frankie's father bludgeoned to death in their apartment. Frankie and his younger sister are gone, possibly on the run. But did Frankie really kill his father? Ray can't believe it. But then who did, and where are Frankie and his sister? Ray doesn't know, but if he's going to have any chance of bringing them home safely, he's going to have to return to the life, the people, and the demons he walked out on all those years ago.Intense, authentic, and completely gripping, Tim O'Mara's Sacrifice Fly is an outstanding debut from a stellar new voice in crime fiction.