Stories

Roger Cicero is an enigma. Behind the man’s meticulously crafted facade lies an angry and broken boy. When he is pushed into a case that hits close to home, the successful lawyer is forced to draw on his buried past to save another battered boy’s future.

Five dead women, dressed up like clowns, holding a note: you should laugh more.

Detective Violet DeLaney and her team are investigating - there has never been a serial killer in picturesque Quincefield before!

Jordan is a bright young lawyer who being early for his meeting randomly finds a coffee shop. There he meets Cameron and they quickly fall in love. They discover that their meeting is more significant than they suspect.

Ludo has a nice life. A lovely wife and son, an attractive modern house, and a good job, idyllic really. But his wife is restless and spends too much time at work; Ludo finds himself getting too close to Arthur, the father of one of his son’s friends. Then his wife’s job takes a sinister turn, casting everything else into the shade.

Elisa Davis was a somewhat odd child. Her brother tagged her with the nickname Lis, and it stuck for the rest of her life. Her parents figured out her oddness at a fairly young age. They’d be looking for something - a wallet, watch, car keys, whatever - and sometimes Lis would bring them whatever it was they were looking for. Usually though, she just told them where it was.

I know you’re probably confused right now. That confusion gets resolved in a later (but not much) chapter.

Disaster strikes backstage at The Velvet Peacock.

Plunge into a sparkling parody of classic whodunits where false lashes replace fingerprints and interrogations come with sequined trench coats and a flamingo pen. In this delirious take on a “missing wig” caper, five over-the-top drag queens spark an avalanche of tantrums, catfights, and comedic revelations.

If you love crime stories but wish they had more glitter and sass, this chaotic romp will keep you howling until the final, wig-snatching twist.

Nicky and Reilly have been dating for a year, and Nicky is taking his boyfriend home over the holiday to meet his parents for the first time.

We return to Orono, Maine, where Detective Gennaro Saggio makes another appearance. This time, the killer is even harder to track down than was Parker Toliver, she of ‘The Fascinator Murders.’

Detective Gennaro Saggio’s first email of the new year announces a murder. Curiously, it is signed OOOI. The victim was a suspected arsonist, found dead in an abandoned warehouse. A suicide note was present, but the victim was handcuffed in a closed and chained tanning bed. The victim had previously been arrested, tried, and acquitted of first-degree murder, and arson.

Apparently, someone didn’t believe he was innocent.

It’s Christmas once again, and Charlie and friends are off on another investigation, this time at the request of their friends in Twombly…

Alex Mason and Jack Langdon have more in common then they might acknowledge. They, along with Niomi Asouta, find themselves in a paradisical location on a very important photo shoot for Ardmani. This could make or brake their careers, earn them and the company they work for lots of money. But behind the facade there are darker movements embroiling them all in a murderous whirlwind with dramatic consequences.