Norway is a destroyed country at the end of World War II. After a relentless German occupation, Norwegians have lost more than imports and exports, everyday goods and services, communications and social events. Norway lost more than 10,000 men and women in the resistance as well as in slave labor and concentration camps scattered throughout Europe. Norway lost hundreds of teachers and religious leaders who died resisting Vidkun Quisling, the head of the Norwegian Nazi Party. Quisling's dem...

Super sleuth Lucy James is hired to find the Colt pistol that may have belonged to Billy the Kid. Hampered by dishonest weapon experts, a pawnshop murder and unusual architecture at a downtown casino, her investigation is rocky at best. A massive snowstorm has blanketed Reno leaving Lucy to slog her way to interviews with uncooperative witnesses. Her father's abrupt firing from his job as the host of a local children's television show and the impending marriage between her best friend Cind...

Jaynie Floyd, a celebrated mystery writer, has a book on the New York Times bestseller list. It's wonderful news and her agent wants to send her on a book tour to promote it. However, Jaynie is newly widowed and doesn't want to go. As she works through her grief, a myriad of problems arise with family and life.Once she finally decides to go on the book tour, partially to escape, all hell breaks loose. One of the other authors on the tour is murdered and Jaynie's instincts as a myst...

An elderly woman dies mysteriously and her priceless pink diamond disappears. Her granddaughter, Sylvia, wants the jewel found and hires Lucy James, Reno detective. The hunt for the diamond, called the PInk Carbuncle, takes them to Spain and Morocco with varying degrees of success and the bad guys hot on their trail. Clues from the grandmother's stories of gypsies and Arabian princesses converge with those of a former choir boy and a nun. They travel on camels in Morocco and encounter spee...

A strange thing happens at David Wilson's fifteenth high school reunion: the homecoming queen dies. That was as unexpected as was David's arrest for her murder a week later.A popular high school biology teacher, David and his wife Lisa are caught up in a fast-paced life in Phoenix with two jobs and two kids. Drugs, bullying, adultery and abortion are underlying tensions that fester and drive wedges between family members. With the Wilsons falling apart, his reunion seemed an oasis o...

London Spies has been awarded the B.R.A.G. Medallion for excellence in historical fiction in 2018.The book is set in London, England at the end of World War II. Phyllis Bowden, a secretary at the American Embassy, is catapulted into the limelight when the Military Attache, Lt. Col. Ronald Lawrence, is arrested for espionage and her boss, the Assistant Military Attache, assumes the position. The arrest throws suspicion on everyone at the Embassy, particularly Lawrence's secretary who...

Lucy James, a sleuth wannabe, is drawn into the intrigue of a bygone war. The French speaking parrot she is caring for shrieks out clues that lead Lucy to a mysterious diary and an elderly man with a secret. Her hands are full when a friend's dog disappears and she's asked to find out what happened to that dog and others. Although she works part-time at a movie theater, she also interns at a detective agency, but it is not going well. With trusty dog Baskerville at her side, Lucy picks up ...

Lucy James can't seem to finish college and seems stuck in her movie theater job. But she's always been good at figuring out puzzles and a big one drops right in her lap. Something's amiss at the local art museum and with her best friend, Cindy, and trusty dog, Baskerville, she attempts to find out what. With a little help from her mentor, Sherlock Holmes, Lucy weaves her way through a very complicated maze of danger and deceit. Nancy Drew has nothing on this girl, but will her meddling ca...

Lucy James, newly minted PI has an office in downtown Reno. Her location is by a pawn shop and people drawn to the area are diverse indeed. She's hired to find a missing truck driver by a colorful woman and the case takes her into the shadowy world of truck cargo thefts. An experienced truck driver never makes it to his intended destination on his route creating panic for his new fiancé.The supernatural is involved in the second case with a focus on a myth of the local Native Americ...

Children in New Orleans are being abducted on their way to school, their captor leaving no trace. Police are baffled so parents call upon a psychic, Marie Bastille, the Voodoo Queen of New Orleans. She in turn asks her daughters, Voodoo priestesses, Lenea and Karma for aid. A deadly cat and mouse game develops between the the Voodoo priestesses, the child abductor, and an urban terrorist, Morrow.

Camping can be murder. Oh, sure, there's the stunning scenery, socializing with old friends and new acquaintances, amazing food cooked outside, and so on. But what if a dead body turns up on one of your hikes-for-fun-and fitness?Frannie and Larry Shoemaker, retired baby boomers, are looking forward to a relaxing Fourth of July weekend with friends in beautiful Bat Cave State Park in Eastern Iowa. They begin with a wonderful meal and some laughs over the antics of nearby novice camp...

Susan Soble is a fifty-one year old mother of two and a half grown boys. She is also an ex-principal, ex-equestrian, ex-wife and now an ex-best-friend after a brutal murder that she is determined to solve. To the dismay of her lover, Detective Carlos Alvarez, Susan uses her equestrian, school and family contacts to uncover a new suspect in that murder, all the while fending off her increasingly volatile ex-husband, Peter.