Erica Duncan and Alan DeLorme are spending a few weeks at the summer theater where Alan will make his directorial debut, with Erica as his assistant. They think that the biggest problem during their stay will be injecting some life into a play that reads more like a manifesto than a drama. After two murders […]

Nikki lives aboard a 46-foot sailboat on the California coast and rents a ground floor office in the marina complex where her boat is docked. In Murder A La Carte, an abused nine-year-old boy comes to Nikki’s office, and asks her to find out who killed his mom. Meanwhile, Nikki’s significant other, Detective Bill Anderson, […]

Dr. Morton Handler practiced a strange brand of psychiatry. Among his specialties were fraud, extortion, and sexual manipulation. Handler paid for his sins when he was brutally murdered in his luxurious Pacific Palisades apartment. The police have no leads, but they do have one possible witness: seven-year-old Melody Quinn. It’s child psychologist Dr. Alex Delaware’s […]

A phone call in the middle of the night with a chilling message. They have her husband, and she must complete a strange series of tasks if she wants him returned alive. If she contacts the police, he will die. If she deviates from their directives, he will die. And though their directives are extraordinarily […]

A woman is newly engaged to a man she adores when she receives a call from her first love with news that shatters her carefully ordered world. Billie has built the perfect life. Her medical practice in New York City is thriving, and she’s finally found the right partner in Dean after years spent trying […]

Isla Harper was widowed at thirty, and for four years she has lived alone in a Chicago house full of her husband’s things. When a lawyer’s letter arrives from Sicily, she leaves it on the kitchen counter for a month. A great-aunt she barely remembers has left her a centuries-old stone villa, and the will […]

Half a century ago, a father’s desperate bargain with a Nazi SS officer bought his family’s survival, and left a debt that would outlive him. Today, three Russian nuclear missiles have vanished off the map, stolen by a hidden network of aging industrialists with a plan far more chilling than blackmail or war. When burned-out […]