Twelve-year-old Chiana Ryan has a plan. When she hears that her former babysitter Patsy has stumbled over a dead body - knife in the back, blood in the pansies - on her own front lawn, Chiana knows she's found the perfect true crime to base her entry on for the KidLit Write-a-Murder-Mystery contest. First prize: five hundred dollars and publication online. The only problem? By the time the police arrive, the corpse has vanished.Armed with a notebook, a stash of colored biros, and e...

Chiana Ryan, PI (sort of) is deep in the middle of an exciting mystery, and everything is coming up eggs. First there's the 120-million-year-old dinosaur egg that disappears from its stand at the museum. Then there's the shed full of eggs she stumbles across while investigating crazy Professor T. Goodenough's scary signs.What do these eggs have in common? What are the strange creatures hatching from the eggs in Professor Goodenough's shed? And, how can Chiana find time to follow cl...

Professional greyhound trainer, Kat McKinley, is a soft touch. When she's talked into having sex with a guy who's just not her type, a romp so pathetic it registers minus ten on a sex-to-die-for scale, she decides to end the relationship. When Kat wakes the next morning to find Mr Wham-Bam sprawled beside her, a knife embedded in his left nipple, she wishes she'd ended the relationship sooner.After that wake-up call, Kat figures life can't nose-dive any lower. But with a killer out...

When Emily and Maggie arrive at Kangaroo Downs to officiate at the opening of its new race-track, they expect to find the usual friendly ambiance characteristic of all small country towns - not the Chief Steward, their very first client, seated behind an 'engaged' sign in the local diner's restroom - deader than last week's news.Not everyone is happy about the new race-track in Kangaroo Downs. Unexplained accidents have been happening at the track. Like workmen falling off sabotage...

Abigail Truelove believes her champion standard smooth dachshund, Chloe, has a lock on the Ladies Kennel Club Best in Show trophy. That is, until she discovers her nemesis, Petra Sullivan, has been sleeping with the show judge...and with Abi's boyfriend. Understandably, Abi's upset. In fact, she might even have threatened bloodthirsty consequences.In front of a show ring full of witnesses.So, later, when Abi trips over Petra's dead body in a dark alley, sh...

A woman running from her traumatic past. A man who's still grieving for the wife he lost eight years ago...When Kiah Stanton drives through the gateway of Windsong racing stables, she's carrying more baggage than a freight train. Vulnerable, yet resolved to uncover her inner warrior princess, she's determined to make a new life for herself - and never trust another man. In fact, the only male Kiah wants in her life is Jet, the equally traumatized horse she saved from the m...

When Emily and Maggie are hired to work at a national showjumping clinic in the little outback town of Dingo Creek, they are plunged into the middle of a seething atmosphere of team rivalry, where no one is who they appear to be.Naturally there's competition between riders, but it seems like the arrogant, Jeremy Taggart will stop at nothing - sex, sabotage or stealing - to gain a place in the Australian squad. That is, until Jeremy doesn't turn up for an important training session....

The week leading up to Christmas should be fun, but when mobile veterinarians Dr. Emily Harrison and Dr. Maggie Post encounter an angry arachnid as big as a small dog, they decide it's no fun at all - especially as the eight-legged creepy-crawly is found guarding a dead body.Who hated the bullying agent enough to kill her? Her boss, Edward G. Peters, the best-selling horror author whose modus operandi in his latest book is identical to the crime? Or the author's cook who i...

Three dog loving sleuths. A dead body. An innocent man jailed for murder.When Dana Fox, feisty mother of two, discovers the dead body of a bullying poodle breeder at the dog show, the Chicks are pushed deep into the middle of another mystery. The wrong man is in jail and it's up to Dana, leader of the pack, Abigail Truelove, owner of Pampered Pooch, and Molly Gibson, a shy romance writer, to collar the real killer.Solving this mystery isn't as easy as depicted in t...

When greyhound trainer, Kat McKinley discovers a dead body in the dumpster at the back of the greyhound track and her bridesmaid, Jules, is arrested for the woman's murder, Kat's wedding plans are left in turmoil. To get her bridesmaid out of jail in time for the ceremony, Kat has to find the real murderer.But how? It isn't a matter of who murdered Mary Parker, but who didn't. The woman was the most disliked trainer in greyhound racing and even Kat is a suspect. A...

Kat McKinley, professional greyhound trainer and sometimes sleuth, is determined to find out who's behind the slow dog scam plaguing country tracks. But with a missing sister to find, races to win, a dead guy in the fridge, a night spent in the slammer, a suspicious police inspector, and a killer on the loose, will she survive to enjoy her new romance with Ben? Of course, Ben, 'the guy she'd want to be lip-locked with if ever the world came to an end', would rather spend time perusing the ...

When Molly Gibson, sensual romance writer but shyest and most insecure member of the Gumshoe Chicks, finds more than she bargained for in the Driscoll's dog trailer, the Chicks - Molly, Abi and Dana - swap show ring etiquette and grooming mitts for some deadly serious sleuthing.Their only clues are the blood splattered dog-grooming scissors found buried in a fellow competitor's chest, a husband blackmailing his wife, and a death threat written on a Betty Boop writing pad.As...