Ah, the smell of Christmas and murder are in the air. And the private investigators of Gotcha Detective Agency are on the case.Mimi has picked up a skip trace, and while staking out the fugitive's girlfriend's house, hoping he'll pop in, Mimi sees activity in the house next door.What happens next no one could have expected. And where it leads is even crazier.In a story of twists and turns, this murder mystery is a little different than the trouble Charles and Mimi usua...

Spring has sprung, but private detective Mimi Capurro is still avoiding the proposal she received from homicide detective Nick Christianson during Christmas. With her business booming and a lack of investigators, Mimi can't focus on anything else. But when her mother brings a new case to the Gotcha Detective Agency, Mimi is forced to prioritize.Lydia's dear friend was found dead in her car, and despite the police ruling it a suicide, Lydia and the victim's husband believe there's m...

Kate's finally buried all the skeletons of her past, or so she thinks. Things have changed since Chief Benoit took the helm, and Kate's life is about to get turned around in a big way. Peculiar Police Department is getting a new officer, and Kate's getting a new partner.Will anyone be ready for this? Will Kate survive having a partner?Their first big case involves a missing person, the second one of the day. Only the second case isn't so cut and dried and now they are hopin...

A brand-new town. A legendary aunt. A poker game gone horribly wrong.After twenty-seven years of marriage, Georgie Taylor is starting over with little more than a suitcase, a bruised heart, her Jack Russell terrier Biscuit, and absolutely no plan.Her temporary solution? Move in with her unforgettable Aunt Lottie in the picturesque seaside town of Pacific Grove, California.It should be the perfect place to heal.Morning walks on the beach. Fre...

Mimi Capurro is a private investigator. She does stakeouts, cheating spouses, and the occasional murder.Trade shows are not her thing.But favors get called in, friends need help, and somehow Mimi ends up spending a perfectly good weekend in San Francisco surrounded by artisan vendors, gift buyers, and one very dead body clutching a voodoo doll with a needle in it.Now she's got a booth full of suspects, a surveillance job quietly going sideways, and Nick showing up a...

Private detective Mimi Capurro's best friend and colleague, Jackie, storms into the office in a full mom-meltdown.Confiscating her fourteen-year-old daughter's laptop and phone seemed like a standard teenage drama. A secret online crush. Some flirty texts. Nothing a good password hack and a serious conversation can't fix.Except Charles cracks the password — and what he finds isn't a boy from Wisconsin.It's a predator. And he lives less than half a mile away....

Something stinks in Peculiar, Texas, and it's not just the dead cop Sergeant Zane Gwilly found shortly before midnight.Kate Darby misses patrolling the streets of Peculiar, Texas, but she has unfinished business. And she can't have the cops knowing what she's doing.What do the death of a drug dealer and (two months later) a cop have in common? That's what Kate and Zane need to find out.

It's been almost a year since Corporal Kate Darby nearly died after being set up by a dirty cop.She's physically ready to get back to her old life, to start patrolling the streets of Peculiar, Texas. But is she mentally ready?Her first day back, she goes out on a call for a flasher, and when that flasher is also flashing a weapon, everything goes south. Now Kate needs to decide if she's mentally ready to be a cop again.

Nick and Mimi are happily married and settled into their new home. It all seems perfect, but is it? Somehow, just when you think life is perfect, something or someone comes along to upset the calm waters.Charles Parks to the rescue! Or is he just meddling?Running from your troubles is never a good idea, and yet when Charles presents Mimi with tickets for a cruise to the Virgin Islands she jumps at the chance to leave it all behind, even if it's only for a week.In true ...

Welcome to Ravenwood Inn—where checking in is easy, but checking out? That's another story entirely.Meet Della Graves: historian, reluctant innkeeper, and now the proud owner of Ravenwood Inn—a Victorian monstrosity with more secrets than a politician's tax returns. She thought "faulty wiring" would be her biggest problem, but that was before she met Eddie, the spectral fedora-wearing wise guy who's been haunting the halls since 1927.When a dead body shows up in her hallway...

She survived a cheating husband, a nervous breakdown, and a disastrous blind date. But someone just turned her decoy operation deadly — and Mimi Capurro is about to find out how bad "vice" can really get.Private detective Mimi Capurro thought running a prostitution sting operation for the Salinas Police Department was her ticket back to normal. New business, new income, new lease on life. Maybe even a new man — if her meddling business partner Charles would stop an...

First published in 1995, I Am Because We Are has been recognized as a major, canon-defining anthology and adopted as a text in a wide variety of college and university courses. Bringing together writings by prominent Black thinkers from Africa, the Caribbean, and North America, Fred Lee Hord and Jonathan Scott Lee made the case for a tradition of “relational humanism” distinct from the philosophical preoccupations of the West.Over the past twenty years, however, new schola...