Veronica Heley
False Alarm (An Abbot Agency Mystery Book 7)
By Veronica Heley (Severn House Publishers)
Release date: March 1, 2013
Bea finds herself obligated to help a businessman whose life is in danger. and is sucked into a community packed with scandal, intrigue and corruption Bea finds herself obligated to help a businessman whose life is in danger.
False Report (Abbot Agency Mysteries)
By Veronica Heley (Severn House Publishers)
Release date: November 1, 2012
An Abbot Agency Mystery While Bea Abbot worries that she’s lost control of her domestic agency, she’s asked to find some domestic help for an eccentric little musician falsely accused of murder. She doesn’;t realize how dangerous this might be until Jeremy, fleeing from attempts on his life, lands up on her doorstep. Researching the gang who’d used an attractive girl to entrap Jeremy, Bea finds traces of them throughout high society.
Murder in Mind (An Ellie Quicke Mystery)
By Veronica Heley (Severn House Publishers)
Release date: September 1, 2012
In the new Ellie Quicke mystery, Ellie is forced to think the unthinkable about her own daughter, Diana. Could she be a murderer?Ellie has always disliked the local big estate agent, aka Great White Shark, and is distressed when her daughter Diana announces that she is carrying his child and about to become his fourth wife. But Ellie is soon drawn into the family circle when one of the Hooper children dies in their private gym and another succumbs to a peanut allergy.
Murder with Mercy (An Ellie Quicke Mystery Book 14)
By Veronica Heley (Severn House Publishers)
Release date: September 1, 2013
Ellie Quicke is surrounded by problems on all sides – will she sink or swim?Ellie’s friend on the police force asks her to enquire about some deaths in the community which might or might not be suicide, and various relatives of the deceased confirm their suspicions. Unbeknown to the police, an elderly lady moving in and out of dementia has come across some drugs and is using them to ease people in pain out of their misery. At the same time, the project to turn the quirky, turreted Pryce House into a hotel is dogged by problems and suspicion falls on the difficult twelve-year-old boy Mikey who Ellie has taken in. Social Services threaten to remove him into care. And Ellie’s pregnant daughter Diana has been juggling problems caused by the slow convalescence of her estate agent husband.
Anita Higman
The Ruby Locket: A Novella (The Belrose Abbey Mystery Series Book 1)
By Anita Higman, Hillary McMullen (Forget Me Not Romances, a division of Winged Publications)
Release date: April 18, 2016
When Anne’s mother agrees to marry a wealthy, mysterious man, she expects a nice mansion in the hills. But their new home, Belrose Abbey, is more like a castle—imposing, cold, and full of shadows. The more Anne explores the corridors and vacant rooms and dusty crannies, the more she discovers about the abbey’s master—her soon-to-be stepfather—Ivan Helsburg. As her mother’s wedding draws closer, Anne begins to harbor a creeping suspicion that all is not well at Belrose Abbey.
Traci Tyne Hilton
The Book of Judges: A Maura Garrison Mystery (The Maura Garrison Mysteries 1)
By Traci Tyne Hilton (Proverbs 31 House)
Release date: May 6, 2018
All things work together for the good for those who believe. Too bad Maura Garrison, a private investigator, isn’t a believer. The murder she was hired to solve hinges on its parallel in the Old Testament book, Judges, but she was just dumped by her pastor-husband so the Bible is the last thing she wants to turn to for answers. Rick Styles, Maura’s husband, is a popular marriage and family counselor with a thriving writing and speaking side business. He’s also the member of a city council committee dedicated to getting homeless children off the streets of Portland, Oregon, a worthy goal that seems to have attracted the attention of a sick and twisted killer.
Lynne Hinton
Sister Eve and the Blue Nun (A Divine Private Detective Agency Mystery)
By Lynne Hinton (Thomas Nelson)
Release date: May 17, 2016
After a murder at the monastery, Sister Eve may need a miracle if she is to prove a dear friend isn’t a cold-blooded killer. Sister Eve, a motorcycle-riding nun with a natural (or is it supernatural?) gift for solving murders returns to the enclave she once called home and quickly finds herself confronting yet another mysterious death. Someone has poisoned Dr. Kelly Middlesworth—a researcher on the life and ministry of 17th-century’s revered “Blue Nun”—and a set of irreplaceable historic documents have disappeared before they could even be examined. When all evidence seems to point to the victim’s brother, Sister Eve sets out to expose the killer and learn the explosive truth those missing manuscripts might contain.
Sister Eve, Private Eye (A Divine Private Detective Agency Mystery)
By Lynne Hinton (Thomas Nelson)
Release date: December 2, 2014
Sister Eve knows God moves in mysterious ways. And Eve adores a good mystery. Especially a murder. Two decades into her calling at a New Mexico monastery, Sister Evangeline Divine breaks her daily routine when a police officer appears, carrying a message from her father. Sister Eve is no stranger to the law, having grown up with a police captain turned private detective.