Sue Duffy
Deeper Than Red: A Novel (Red Returning Trilogy)
By Sue Duffy (Kregel Publications)
Release date: March 7, 2014
Twenty-year-old Tally Greyson isn’t consumed with her own education, social life, or career goals like most young women her age. Instead, she’s trying to save her mother from the grasp of a seductive cult. What Tally doesn’t realize is that in this community, there’s a far greater danger than any she can imagine—and she and her mother aren’t the only ones in its sights. There are plots brewing here that will threaten the fate of the world. Concert pianist Liesl Bower has put her own dangerous past behind her, and in her Charleston family home, surrounded by those who love her, she’s preparing for a world concert tour with her dear friend, violinist Max Morozov.
Sharon Dunn
Cow Crimes and the Mustang Menace (Ruby Taylor Mystery Series #3)
By Sharon Dunn (Kregel Publications)
Release date: May 9, 2005
This award-winning series continues with a mystery of Ruby Taylor proportions—complete with thieving ranchers, tangled romance, and the redheaded heroine who just doesn’t know when to quit. Guaranteed fiction!.
Death of a Garage Sale Newbie (Bargain Hunters Mysteries, No. 1)
By Sharon Dunn (Multnomah)
Release date: March 20, 2007
Solving a murder mystery is much more than the BHN bargained for! What could Ginger the baby boomer, Kindra the college student, Suzanne the pregnant mother of three, and Mary Margret the silver-haired real-estate agent possibly have in common? Who would’ve guessed…a passion for garage sales! This motley crew forms the Bargain Hunters Network–bonding while clipping coupons, attending half-price sales, and scouting clearance racks in their hometown of Three Horses, Montana. But when one of the four turns up missing, these shop-till-you-drop women must set their bargain hunting aside to take up an entirely new venture altogether–solving a crime. As the three amateur sleuths retrace their friend’s fateful steps, they discover clues that lead them to suspect her murder is linked to an unusual garage sale purchase made on the morning of her death. But when their search unearths a disturbing secret that’s been carefully concealed for over twenty years, the women are drawn into a dark underworld filled with bribery, greed, and deception. With determined criminals who will stop at nothing to keep their secret safe, will these fiscally conscious females end up paying the ultimate price? .
Death of a Six-Foot Teddy Bear (Bargain Hunters Mysteries, No. 2)
By Sharon Dunn (Multnomah)
Release date: January 15, 2008
Another murder mystery for the Bargain Hunters Network–only this time, one of them is a suspect!Ginger and her husband, Earl, are in for a wild ride in Calamity, Nevada, along with the other BHN ladies–college student Kindra, mother-of-four Suzanne, and sassy senior Arleta. They came to town for the Invention Expo and some outlet shopping, but instead they endure lost luggage, broken air conditioning, and a long line of people angry at hotel owner Dustin Clydell. With the Invention Expo and the Squirrel Lovers’ convention both in town, the Wind-Up Hotel has somehow overbooked. Before the night is over, a man has been found dead in a teddy bear costume, the Invention Expo has been canceled, Binky the water-skiing squirrel has gone missing…and the authorities want to talk to one of the BHN ladies! What else could possibly go wrong?Once again, the Bargain Hunters Network swings into sleuth mode to solve the murder–and this time, clear one of their own. Along the way, Ginger discovers something even better than a bargain.
Romance Rustlers and Thunderbird Thieves (Ruby Taylor Mystery Series #1)
By Sharon Dunn (Kregel Publications)
Release date: January 24, 2003
No one makes a fool of Ruby Taylor—or her friends. This tough cookie of a detective winds up in a tangled mystery. Follow the fiery redhead through a harrowing adventure to right the wrongs of love—with helicopters, flying buffalo, and a heart-pounding chase scene for good measure. Guaranteed fiction!.
Sassy Cinderella and the Valiant Vigilante (Ruby Taylor Mysteries, Book 2)
By Sharon Dunn (Kregel Publications)
Release date: December 16, 2003
Ruby Taylor’s job at the university turns interesting and it isn’t long before she’s in a crash course on real love and deadly university politics. It’s a mystery with more twists than a silly straw. This award-winning title is guaranteed fiction!.
Teri Dunnegan
May Cooler Heads Prevail (Hometown Mysteries)
By Teri Dunnegan (Barbour Books)
Release date: November 1, 2010
The last time Dixie’s Aunt Connie saw her fiancé was the night before their wedding. Now, forty years later, he’s wrapped in pink cellophane and lying in Connie’s flower cooler… Psychologist Dixie Tanner has been recruited by her uncle to help prove her aunt’s innocence in the murder of Aaron Scott. But when Dixie arrives home in Kenna Springs, she finds her loyal-but-whacky relatives have taken matters into their own hands and are determined to find the killer before anyone misses the victim. There are just two little problems.
Amanda Dykes
Whose Waves These Are
By Amanda Dykes (Bethany House Publishers)
Release date: April 30, 2019
In the wake of WWII, a grieving fisherman submits a poem to a local newspaper: a rallying cry for hope, purpose. and rocks. Send me a rock for the person you lost, and I will build something life-giving.