Halloween is looming large in New Orleans, and Private Investigator Franki Amato's in a gloomy mood. Her boyfriend Bradley has to leave on an extended business trip, and her slacker brother is coming to town with her matchmaker nonna who's determined to see a Sicilian lemon superstition bear fruit. Meanwhile, the entire city is spooked because a caped figure is targeting its blood banks. Things turn macabre when a psychic makes a dark prediction about...

"Hilton Head private investigator Bay Tanner has seen enough murder and mayhem to last her several lifetimes. Her decision to accept only the most mundane cases has led to a more settled life with her husband and employees until the appearance of an old friend scuttles all her good intentions. Sylvia Reynolds, lovingly known as Pudge back when their crowd shared forbidden cigarettes in the girls' restroom, has morphed into Sylvie Reynaud, one of the...

When Kenny Thorpe, a contestant on Expose TV's Big Blubber - the hot new celebrity weight-loss show - is murdered on live television in front of three-million viewers, the case seems pretty watertight. After all, everyone saw Martin do it - didn't they? Cherry Hinton knows there's more to this than meets the eye. As an investigative reporter, she went undercover on dating show Caravan of Love, but after getting in too deep with one of the other contestants,...

"Six months have passed since Denver Moon, P.I., smashed The Minds of Mars into the red planet, destroying the ship's horrific cargo and delaying the alien danger of human mind control. Now, in the dark underbelly of Mars City, Denver and her faithful AI-installed pistol, Smith, are hot on the trail of a suspect they believe is responsible for the disappearance of numerous citizens in Red Tunnel. But as they close in on the culprit, they uncover an...

Someone is stalking fourteen-year-old Elizabeth, aka Bessie, and wreaking all kinds of havoc. Who is this person who at first claimed to be her dead brother Aldon? Who seems to be willing to take out her entire family to get to her? The Pugh family is taken aback, full circle, to where it all began.--From front inside flap of book jacket.

For Althea Graham, suffering the whims of her malevolent invalid of a mother, the old family home is a prison. But when two strangely competitive offers for the Grahams' house are made to her it suggests that the house may hold some dark rewarding secret. Then old Mrs. Graham is found murdered in the gazebo.

E.J. has a surprise twentieth wedding anniversary present for Willis--a weekend away in the Texas hills. She's found the perfect Bed and Breakfast- the Bishop' Inn in the quaint town of Peaceful. Unfortunately, they've barely arrived before the inn's troubled elderly owner, Carrie Marie Hutchins, confides in them about a harrowing event from her childhood involving her dead father...and his spirit, which won't go away...E.J. has little time to digest...