Emilie Adler, a gifted Hungarian athlete, one of only a handful of Jews who refused to boycott the infamous 1936 Nazi Olympics, wins bronze for Hungary. Eight years later, during the German invasion of Hungary, Adolph Eichmann arrives in Budapest and Emilie is caught up in the Holocaust. Working with Raoul Wallenberg, Sweden's special envoy to Hungary, she survives the war years and continues to live in Hungary. But the 1956 Hungarian Revolt is the last straw for Emilie. Determined to esca...

It's Halloween, and harmless Kate is once again pursuing her hobby of etching the dead. It's a hobby that has consumed most of her adult life. She's not sure why she does it until she discovers an old New Hampshire cemetery. And it is there, deep in the cemetery that she comes across seven headstones, all in a circle. A round table of the dead if you will. And it is there that she discovers that the graves are of seven young women born of the same day as she and her friends, and all having...

Book 1 in a series of chronological stand-alone plots.England 1899. Ten years after Holmes and Watson solve the case of the Baskerville hound, Dr Watson receives an invitation to return to Baskerville Hall. The night before his departure he meets a Ukrainian countess who claims to be the daughter of Sherlock Holmes and Irene Adler. She is vain, rich, fiercely intelligent, and she ends up accompanying him to Devon.The same characters from the original story have re-assembled a...

An unconventional mystery filled with humor and sprinkled with history...St. Paul 1949: A boozing WWII ex-pilot turned private eye, a baseball obsessed street cop, a tight-lipped newsstand proprietor, a dandified police detective and a bartender/psychiatrist intermingle with the quirky characters on the corners of St. Paul's old downtown--all playing a part in the investigation of a likeable prostitute's suicide...or...murder.

The classic Danish thriller dubbed 'The First Crime Novel.'The trial of Pastor Søren Jensen Quist of Vejlby took place at Aarhus in 1626. The trial centered around the unexplained disappearance in 1607 of a farm laborer named Jesper Hovgaard who was employed at Pastor Quist's rectory. Fifteen years later, in 1622, human remains were unearthed on the grounds of the rectory. The bones were believed to belong to Hovgaard and word soon spread that the Reverend Quist had slaughtered him...

Book 2 in a series of chronological stand-alone plots.Scotland 1899. Dr Watson and Countess Varvara Volodymyrovna visit the Scottish Borders to solve the Lammermoor Golf Course murders. Lord Cruddock is staging a tournament to promote his new golf course but someone is killing-off the golfers.There are plenty of suspects among the golfing-tragics, weird locals and exotic guests staying at Cruddock Castle, however, it is the dowager Lady Cruddock, a Spiritualist who is oppos...

Book 5 in a series of chronological stand-alone plots:France 1899. Dr Watson and Countess Volodymyrovna are holidaying in Biarritz when a fire breaks out in the kitchen of their petit hotel. The hotel's owner (a retired opera singer known as the Singing Wolf) invites the handful of guests to stay at her isolated mountain retreat in a remote area rife with wolves and lawless brigands led by the murderous outlaw, Sarazan.Among the guests are Colonel James Isambard Moriarty, B...

Someone took the tip of a trident tine from the sea god's statue and Poseidon is pissed. High Priestess Shuretra (actually a Fair to Middling Priestess) has exactly one week to apprehend the perpetrator before everyone in Atlantis goes glug, glug, glug. But can she solve the crime and still find time to run some errands for her mother?

When Janie Hamilton unexpectedly inherits Tolham Castle, there are mysteries to uncover in the dungeon, and the disappearance of a guest needs to be explained. A collection of four stories:The Tolham Castle Legacy,The Tolham Castle Mystery,The Tolham Castle Banquet,Tolham Castle: The Mystery of the Runes.

Ever since the Brooklyn Blast in 2021, the human bedbugs and cockroaches of a traumatized society have crawled out of the woodwork. Cash-strapped and struggling with his own PTSD, New York investigator and exterminator-for-hire Keith Savage suddenly catches a case.A beautiful LA journalist wants him to retrieve a younger sister who's vanished from their Long Island home. Runaway or kidnapped, there's a huge find-and-return fee to get Marielle back home before the weekend when her f...

Brun Campbell, a 15-year-old piano fool, gets to play Scott Joplin's "Maple Leaf Rag" one 1898 afternoon in Oklahoma City. It's destiny calling. Though he tries for ragtime lessons, he's told no— "Ragtime is colored music." So Brun runs away from the family home in El Reno, Oklahoma, to Sedalia, Missouri, to persuade Joplin to take him on as a pupil. What Brun doesn't expect is to trip over the body of a young woman—he thinks at first she's a log and thoughtlessly picks up a couple of item...