Sometimes the demons of stories take on human faces.When Poe Baxter and her friend Beattie travel to Lima, Peru, to hunt down a rare collection of Peruvian folktales, the two women find themselves mixed up in a game of deceit that echoes the legend of the chullachaqui. Soon, they're having trouble telling truth from lie, even when their lives are at stake.Can Poe and Beattie discern what is real from what is myth before it's too late?

Publishing fiction and nonfiction since 2012.

Publishing fiction and nonfiction since 2012.

Travel to Syria isn’t always the safest choice, but it isn’t the political tension that’s the danger for Poe. No, the danger is linked to her latest book acquisition. Poe Baxter once heard a man say if he could travel anywhere in the world, he’d visit Damascus, and she hasn’t thought about a visit to the city since. So when she hears that a rare codex from the 1st century has come onto the market there, she and Beattie book the next flight to see if they can buy it. Yet, when they arrive, they find there’s much more at stake than just a rare scroll. Can centuries of secrets be unearthed safely? Or do they need to be buried again?

She thought she was just going to reminisce, enjoy the Northern Lights, and celebrate an author, but a murderer had other ideas. On her first trip to Iceland, Poe Baxter is excited about the scenery, the culture and the rare book she’s hoping to find.  But it soon becomes clear that Poe and her best friend Beattie are in for far more than a quiet, book-buying trip to the country.  Will they survive their new bookish escapade? When a case of nostalgia hits, will it also mean the end of Poe’s memories?

Log cabins are supposed to be full of inspiring stories, not bloody bones. When Paisley Sutton gets the chance to salvage from her first antique log cabin, she is ecstatic, until she finds the body of a murdered man in the back room. When she and her friends begin to look into who he is and why he’s dead, they uncover a heap of stories no one in town wants them to know. Will the truth set them free or get them killed?

Old Douglas Fir timbers bring good money, but maybe not as much as keeping quiet about the story of a murder. Paisley Sutton hates to see an old barn falling down, so when she has a chance to take in a crew of friends to salvage timbers, she goes in with gusto. But when they find the bones from a decades-old murder, Paisley begins to wonder if maybe some things should just be let go to ruins. Maybe some secrets need to stay buried. If Paisley decides to salvage more than just wood and reveal the murderer, will she be the next body buried in a barn?

The truth shall set her free, but not if someone wants her dead first. Business has been good for historian Paisley Sutton, but when she goes into her own church parish house to salvage some of the early 20th century fixtures before the building is demolished, she uncovers far more than vintage cabinets. Once the women from church hear about the secrets Paisley is uncovering, they are bound and determined to reveal the truth and unmask a murderer in the process. Will Paisley and her friends uncover the truth before the cover-up kills them all?

The promise of old printer’s trays has her heart aflutter, but it nearly stops when she finds a body at the bottom of the elevator shaft. When salvage expert and historian Paisley Sutton heard that a 19th century printing press was still in the old warehouse that was scheduled for demolition, she knew she had to get in there. But when her dreams of a salvage windfall lead her on the genealogical hunt for the owners of the press and their descendants, she uncovers a story that promises to stay with her far longer than the income from her salvage operations. When the story becomes public, will Paisley’s business be safe? Will she?

All she wanted from the old farmhouse was the gorgeous mantel, not a dead body. Paisley Sutton always expects the unexpected when she goes into a house to salvage the architectural prizes before its torn down. She evens knows she might encounter a rodent or two. But she really isn’t expecting to find a dead body, not again.  And when it turns out the young man she found slumped in the house’s basement was killed, Paisley discovers that it’s not only the house that was abandoned. Will her research trigger the decades-old fears that someone hoped to bury in the rubble?

Nail guns have always terrified Harvey Beckett, and now she knows why. Harvey loves sharing the parking lot of her bookstore with the hardware store across the way, but when an unruly customer is killed in the lot one night, she begins to wonder if the men who own the store are responsible. A few inquiries and a bit of spying later, and Harvey and her best friend find themselves with nowhere to run. Will the killer be caught before the two women are silenced forever?

Everyone loves getting mail, but not when it’s clasped in someone’s cold, dead hands. Harvey Beckett had heard tale of how the postmistress steams open people’s mail to feed her gossip-hungry customers, but when the postmistress is murdered, Harvey learns that the mail carrier might have been doing more than passing along juicy details. Soon, Harvey and her father find themselves embroiled in hunt to find a killer, a quest that might stop her dad’s heart. Can they find the truth amongst the tall tales without becoming legends themselves?

The murders in St. Marin’s Library’s mystery section just got very real.  When the local librarian is found dead among the stacks, the rumors about her reputation reach a fever pitch, but Harvey Beckett can’t let a fellow book-lover’s name be sullied. But when she drags her friends and her dogs into the investigation, she finds that it’s more than just rumors she has to contend with. Will Harvey’s curiosity be the end of her this time? 

A dead body in Santa's lap is not what Harvey Beckett wanted for Christmas.  The streets of St. Marin’s are decorated for Christmas, and Harvey Beckett has decided that she’ll host Santa Claus at her bookstore, reviving a town’s long-standing tradition. But on the first day of the holiday season, a man stumbles into Santa’s lap and dies, threatening the holiday spirit . . . and bringing a slew of questions that Harvey can’t resist trying to answer. Will Harvey’s queries land her, her friends – and their dogs – in a load of trouble?  

She has always said if she was running, it’s because she was being chased. That’s never been more true.  It's Autumn, bookstore owner Harvey Beckett’s favorite time of year, and she's most excited about two things – her bookshop's float in the annual Harvest Parade and pumpkin everything. But when her best friend Mart finds the body of her running coach and high school gym teacher behind the bleachers one fall morning, Harvey becomes enthralled in a mystery that uncovers their quaint town's darkest secrets. When Harvey's curiosity gets the best of her, she and her pup Mayhem find that maybe there are just some secrets better left undiscovered.

The things Harvey Beckett doesn’t know about her neighbors could get her killed.  In the perfect days of early May, bookshop owner Harvey Beckett is looking forward to evenings of walking Mayhem, reading in the before bed, and maybe even enjoying a snuggle with her favorite mechanic. But a meandering dog walk pushes pause on those plans when she and Mayhem stumble upon the body of the much-detested local bank manager. Harvey and her friends discover that there’s a lot going on behind the scenes in quiet St. Marin’s, a lot that people are hiding.  Can Harvey help, or will her helping only end up creating more trouble for everyone around her? 

Mother-daughter bonding time shouldn't involve running from a big tractor. When Harvey Beckett stumbles upon the body of the community's most reviled dairy farmer, she, her friends, and her parents are launched into an investigation that reveals a family secret that wasn't really that secret after all. Soon, Harvey's curiosity lands her and her mother in a heap of danger that may mark the end of her sleuthing Can Harvey help find the murderer and protect the victim's family before the murderer finds her?

It’s not every day you get to sit on pristine blue water holding a beautiful, first edition Nadine Gordimer novel, and wondering if you’ll survive the day. Poe Baxter has always wanted to go to Capetown, and when she hears that a rare book by a famous South African novelist has come on the market, she takes the opportunity to fly to the city. But as soon as she and her best friend Beattie begin researching the whereabouts of this supposed literary treasure, they come upon another mystery that takes their attention and puts them in peril. What is a rare book worth? A human life or two?

Solving murders was not what single mother Paisley Sutton had in mind when she started her architectural salvage business, but it certainly has become part and parcel of her work. Whether she's claiming glass door knobs from an old church parish house, finding bones beneath the floor of an old school, or discovering a skeleton in an old barn, Paisley and her friends are never short on mystery.

Publishing fiction and nonfiction since 2012.

Publishing fiction and nonfiction since 2012.