This is the SECOND EDITION of the first book in this award winning series, completely updated by the author: In the south of France where hatred simmers in the heat, a man seemingly admired, and certainly feared, drops dead at a dinner party. All of the guests fall under suspicion, including Welsh-Canadian professor Cait Morgan. A criminologist who specializes in profiling victims, Cait sets out to solve the murder—and clear her name. Add to this the disappearance of an ancient Celtic gold...

‘SO WHAT DO YOU THINK – IS SHE PARANOID, OR IS IT REALLY POISON?’It’s January in the picturesque Welsh village of Anwen-by-Wye, where temperatures plummet as Annie Parker and Carol Hill find themselves working for a woman who seems perilously close to death’s door...and holding some worrying views about why that might be. They’re tackling the delicate case alone because Christine Wilson-Smythe is trapped in London until her baby is born, where she battles boredom b...

"A disturbing storyline of family secrets, deftly told, and with a remarkable sense of place. Almost mythic in nature, it’s narrated by a chorus of voices which stay with you all the way to the stunning ending and beyond." Craig Robertson, international bestselling author"Family secrets stalk three generations of women in Cathy Ace’s suspense-packed page turner, THE WRONG BOY. The ending is a stunner." Hallie Ephron, NY Times bestselling author...

‘We were all very ordinary girls, until that day. Then nothing was ever ordinary again.’The women of the WISE Enquiries Agency are asked to look into a tragic death that happened back in 1984: four girls visited a small Welsh mining village awash with outsiders, due to the memorial service being held in honor of its most famous son, but only three came back. With Carol leading the investigation, ably supported by Annie, they admit they’re a bit stumped, until the p...

Twelve 'killer' tales, each connected with one month of the year!For those who already know Cathy Ace's characters Cait Morgan and Bud Anderson - or the women of the WISE Enquiries Agency - this collection of novellas and short stories will bring the delight of finding out how they met their 'significant others' and began their murderous adventures.For those discovering this award-winning author for the first time, you're i...

FOUR DELICIOUSLY DIFFERENT SHORT NOVELS, ONE FOR EACH SEASON OF THE YEARWINTER: The Corpse with Eight Faces - A Cait Morgan MysteryTrapped in a snowbound lodge in the Canadian countryside, Cait is faced with a corpse, and a group of eight suspects. A classic closed-circle mystery featuring Cait Morgan, before she and Bud Anderson knew each other well enough for her to be able to call upon him for help.SPRING: The Case of the...

“Who would want to hurt him? He was one of the good guys. Did a lot of work with charities. Supported his friends and colleagues. Loved his wife and kids.”Jayson Flyntt melted millions of hearts whenever he gazed directly into the camera as the star of a long-running American soap opera; now he’s in Vancouver’s “Hollywood North” to make a science fiction movie he believes will revive his waning fortunes. When his body is discovered in puzzling circumstances at a fi...

“A woman was being strangled, Bud. That’s what I saw; how could I misinterpret that?”It’s April in Paris, and Cait Morgan’s just completed a stint as a visiting professor of criminal psychology at the Sorbonne. Her husband, retired homicide detective Bud Anderson, has joined her, but – when Cait witnesses what she believes is a murder – their plans to revel in the French capital’s art and architecture, history and food have to take a back seat. Encountering an unex...

“Mom had a brother she’s never mentioned, who died a couple of months ago. She says he was...bad.”Bud Anderson’s surprise that he has a long-lost uncle is matched by his discovery that the man has met an untimely end. With claims by Bud’s mother that her brother was a bad child ringing in their ears, Cait Morgan joins her husband in accepting Uncle Jonas’s invitation - from beyond the grave - to visit Amsterdam, where he’d built a life for himself, founded on his p...

"I want you to help me find out who murdered my grandmother"Welsh Canadian criminologist Cait Morgan is invited to be a guest lecturer at a Budapest university, but her retired-cop husband Bud Anderson must stay at home to care for his aging parents, so she reluctantly makes the month-long trip on her own.Soon after arriving, one of her new students pleads with Cait to help her uncover clues about her grandmother's unsolved murder, which happened decades ea...

THE DUKE’S REPUTATION IS IN PERIL – CAN THE WOMEN OF THE WISE ENQUIRIES AGENCY SAVE THE DAY?Henry Devereaux Twyst, eighteenth duke of Chellingworth, is desperate to disprove murderous rumors about his ancestor before his first child is born, so he enlists the help of the women of the WISE Enquiries Agency.However, Annie is working undercover – on a case that turns out to be more deadly than anyone had imagined, and Carol is...

Welsh criminal psychologist and globetrotting sleuth, Cait Morgan, and her retired-cop husband Bud Anderson, are enjoying some well-deserved peace and quiet at home, in moody, mountainous British Columbia. The sudden death of a neighbor is a significant loss for them both, so Cait’s honored when Gordy Krantz’s “unusual” will requests that she eulogize him at his memorial.However, delving into the dead man’s background becomes a pressing priority when a puzzling theft, and some surp...