Suspense Novellas

MISSING SINCE WOODSTOCK  a 99c Amazon Shortread 

Sixteen year old Lisa slips away from home to go to Woodstock and does not return. She leaves her thirteen year old sister, Eve, to cover for her. A drifter, who calls himself Spirit, has persuaded Lisa to go with him to the rock festival. Their widowed mother blames Eve for hiding the truth from her and says she will never forgive her. Plagued with guilt, Eve begins a dangerous search for her sister. Later, in 1983, a stranger returns…one that Eve recognizes as Spirit. And Spirit claims he knows what happened to Lisa! 

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THE MEMORY OF A MURDER  An Amazon 99c Shortread

Does the graduation party at Wynd Lake symbolize a last day of freedom for the close-knit group of students from Bailey High, or does it have lasting and deadly repercussions? Brad thinks back to that idyllic afternoon which ends in tension, jealousy, and passion as several of his friends vie for the attention of the dazzling and uninhibited Rozzi Lowery. A five-year reunion and a disturbing photograph lead to the question—did someone commit murder that night? 

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RUN IF YOU CAN  a 99c Amazon Shortread 

When there's no place to hide....

The man stood back in the trees near the house. Ever since Selene had asked Wayne for a divorce, he had been there, watching with some terrible sense of purpose.

Selene knew that Wayne didn’t oppose the divorce because he loved her, but because he didn’t want to lose his position with her company or his present lifestyle. Wayne must have hired this man to spy on her, but why? That night, when an intruder breaks into her house, it dawns upon Selene that the reason might be murder. 

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A DEAL ON A HANDSHAKE  A HIGH COUNTRY MYSTERY SHORT STORY COLLECTION

Contemporary Western)

In this short story collection of seven mysteries, Sheriff Jeff McQuede finds himself in the middle of a deal made on a handshake--where the result is murder. Set in the high country of modern-day Wyoming, the deal makers are speculators at an old-time mountain man rendezvous, traders vying over rare Indian pots, or two family patriarchs pretending to bridge a lifetime of feuding. Throughout the book McQuede battles his arch-enemy Ruger, who runs a host of illegal activities, but generally manages to evade McQuede's traps. In each of these stories McQuede, putting his own life on the line, relentlessly seeks out the dangerous men who have broken trust.

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Reviews:

"Ms. Britton and Ms. Jackson bring the Western into the modern age with a heaping helping of mystery...scintillating fast-paced prose that grips you from word one and holds on till story end...McQuede leaps off the page into three-dimension..."

--Howard Hopkins, Author of The Chloe Files