Margaret Brownley
Undercover Bride (Undercover Ladies)
By Margaret Brownley (Shiloh Run Press)
Release date: June 1, 2015
Pinkerton detective Maggie Cartwright is tasked with going undercover as a mail order bride. Her “fiancé” is widower Garrett Thomas, aka the suspected Whistle-Stop Bandit. No sooner does Maggie arrive in Arizona Territory when she’s confronted with an early wedding date—the clock is ticking on her detective work or she may end up a criminal’s wife! As the day of the wedding draws near, Maggie begins to panic. The problem is that the more she gets to know Garrett and his two adorable children, the harder it is to keep up the deception. Can a man as kind and gentle as Garrett really be the Whistle-Stop Bandit?
Lynn Bulock
No Love Lost (Gracie Lee Mystery Series #3) (Steeple Hill Love Inspired Suspense #59) (A Cozy Mystery)
By Lynn Bulock (Love Inspired Suspense)
Release date: July 10, 2007
I seem to be gathering quite a collection of murder victims: fi rst myhusband, then my contractor. And now my ex-husband’s fi ancée hasturned up dead. But I, Gracie Lee Harris, am on the job—much tothe dismay of my boyfriend, homicide detective Ray Fernandez. I’veenlisted the ladies of the Christian Friends to help me fi gure out whokilled my ex’s sweetie not long before their wedding. My ex is the primesuspect, but his fi ancée kept secrets that might have been deadly.
Claudia Mair Burney
Deadly Charm (Amanda Bell Brown Mystery Series, Book 3)
By Claudia Mair Burney (Howard Books)
Release date: March 24, 2009
When the ominous Thunders roll into Dr. Amanda Bell Brown’s town, the sassy sleuth sees a storm brewing. Disgraced playboy preacher Ezekiel Thunder and his seductive first lady, Nikki, are on the comeback trail, but Bell is less than charmed by the pair. When their toddler, Baby Zeekie, is found dead from an accidental drowning, forensic psychologist Bell suspects foul play in the fatal family, especially after the mama in mourning flirts with Bell’s estranged husband, Jazz. Bell is sickened by the woman’s behavior and the thought of someone murdering an innocent child — or is it morning sickness that’s plaguing her? Between babies and bodies, she pushes past the limits to discover the deadly truth.
Death, Deceit & Some Smooth Jazz (Amanda Bell Brown Mysteries, No. 2)
By Claudia Mair Burney (Howard Books)
Release date: April 1, 2008
Amanda Bell Brown is a woman on the edge. How’s a woman supposed to nurse a broken heart when her pet sugar glider is driving her batty, or is that squirrelly? The deafening tick of her biological clock and having no Jazz to soothe her makes Amanda Bell Brown one frazzled forensic psychologist. When Lieutenant Jazz Brown shows up at Amanda’s door unannounced, her heart competes with her head as she struggles to do the right thing. Jazz says he wants to reconnect and make their relationship work. But there’s just one tiny problem: his ex-wife is found murdered – in his apartment.
Murder, Mayhem & a Fine Man: An Amanda Bell Brown Mystery
By Claudia Mair Burney (Howard Books)
Release date: January 29, 2008
For Amanda Bell Brown, just living her life is murder! How’s a woman supposed to grapple with faith, a fine man, and turning thirty-five when she keeps tripping in her high heels over mysteries – and not just the God kind? Amanda Bell Brown knows that life as a forensic psychologist isn’t quite as cool as it looks on prime-time T. V. But when she turns thirty-five with no husband or baby on the horizon, she decides she’s gotta get out and paint the town – in her drop-dead red birthday dress. Instead, she finds herself at the scene of a crime – and she just may know who the killer is.