Amateur-sleuth Stories

Rowena Flores has problems...and we're not just talking about her anger management issues. After cursing her cheating ex-boyfriend, this home goods cashier's life is tur...

(Book II in the NSCM series) Rowena Flores has troubles... and we're not just talking about her lackluster love life. Just when her life is finally getting back to norma...

After his sister is brutally attacked and crippled investigating the rape of a thirteen-year-old, Richard Baimbridge rushes back to his hometown of Wilmington, NC, to as...

[Ambys 2022: Mystery/Thriller Winner] Discovering a dead body just minutes from her cottage in the trees is the last thing Dray Dinley expects upon moving to the remote...

When heiress Alexis Dupont asks part-time P.I Evie Harper to search her sisters room for an expensive missing heirloom it seems like an easy gig to give Evie a little po...

Why did she ever agree to this? Though she's found the man who killed her family, Juliet Sincliar's work isn't done yet. She agrees to help Mr. Oswyn Harper, her late br...

It's Nancy's twentieth birthday, and among the numerous gifts she received, the best one was a ticket to Thomas & Co. Cruise with the Hardys, for a few days. But a sudde...

In this sixth novel of the Terribly Acronymed Detective Club series, all the world's a stage, and Rachel, Al, Lauren, Joe and Sunny find themselves playing parts scripte...

Marcia Bailey is your typical 'frazzled English female protagonist.' She works in a small publishing agency, printing a niche agricultural quarterly journal, and a few c...

After solving a double murder - twice - Imogen Fox, the personal assistant of the John Oakby, the Mayor of a tiny own of Fleckney Woulds, has sworn to never again give i...

Retired octogenarian schoolteacher Myrtle Clover is fit to be tied when her book club votes to change to a supper club. Who wants chips and dip when they can have Dicke...

Lucy's worried when one of her second graders goes missing, and her most eager student, eight-year-old Sadie, is determined to help crack the case. Despite both Sadie an...

Only a month has elapsed since the Lawrence Street Detective Club went back in time to rescue Sunny's daughter and stop a bad man, but the ripple effects of their changi...

"I'm assuming that little speech was meant for me?" "It was meant for everyone." "But mostly me. Is it because I called her selfish earlier? Are...

"Two bodies in a car at the bottom of a ravine - one is a stranger, frozen solid; the other is her brother-in-law. Country girl Kaelynn Barrows has a compulsi...

||•IN THE PROCESS OF BEING EDITED•|| Nancy is having a boring time; no cases to solve, no mysteries to peep into. So when her friend George Fayne asks her and Bess Marv...

Oregon 1887 Anna goes on a journey of discovery as she sets off to find her missing brother. She wants to be more than a housewife and dreams of working as a ranch hand...

Some people say breaking up is hard to do, Mya Russell is finding out, just how hard. It's not enough to be dumped by the biggest asshole in Crawford City. No, said assh...

A monster is running down Main Street! An old mountain hermit, dressed as Death, drops dead at a Halloween festival in Hope Rock County. Nobody knows why. But mysteriou...

It's just an ordinary day for octogenarian sleuth Myrtle Clover-until her yardman discovers a dead body planted in her backyard. This death isn't cut and dried-the victi...