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Category: Amateur Sleuth

Episode 53: Jeri Westerson

Posted onOctober 18, 2017October 18, 20171 Comment

I didn’t believe in ghosts or the supernatural…but that weird noise in the wall was testing my convictions. The unpleasant scratching sound that made the hairs on the back of my neck stand at attention had been going on for Read More …

CategoriesAmateur Sleuth, featured, Historical, Noir, Paranormal, Urban FantasyTagsdemon, historical, Jeri Westerson, murder, mystery, paranormal, urban fantasy

Episode 51: Steve Goble

Posted onSeptember 20, 2017September 20, 2017

Spider John Rush resigned himself to the hard truth–he was returning to a world of cut and thrust, hide and pounce, blood and smoke, pitch and tar.  He had been foolish to think of leaving that world; Spider John belonged Read More …

CategoriesAdventure, Amateur Sleuth, featured, Historical, Noir, PiratesTagsadventure, Bloody Black Flag, murder, mystery, noir, pirate, Steve Goble

Episode 50: Kellye Garrett

Posted onSeptember 6, 2017September 5, 2017

The copy was straight to the point. Wanted: Information on the hit-and-run murder of Haley Joseph. Tuesday, August 18th, 11:30 p.m., Vermont Ave near Hillside St. And across the bottom, right over her press-on French manicure, $15,000 reward. I peered Read More …

CategoriesAmateur Sleuth, Cozy, featuredTagsactress, amateur sleuth, cozy, Detective by Day, Hollywood Homicide, Kellye Garrett, murder, mystery

Episode 48: Frankie Bow

Posted onJuly 12, 2017July 12, 2017

Inside the navy-blue Victorian house two blocks off Main Street, four women sat around a sturdy kitchen table. As you watched them chatting and sipping sweet tea, you might assume you were observing a church committee or a quilting circle. Read More …

CategoriesAmateur Sleuth, Campus Mystery, Cozy, featuredTagschildren, cozy, Frankie Bow, Hawaii, Jana DeLeon, murder, mystery, Professor Molly

Episode 47: Leslie Karst

Posted onJune 30, 2017June 29, 20171 Comment

“Papà.” I looked into my father’s eyes, deep blue and set off by leathery skin and rows of wrinkles—the result of age, but also a lifetime of long hours in fishing boats out in the sun. “Oh, Papà,” I said Read More …

CategoriesAmateur Sleuth, Cozy, featuredTagscozy, food, Leslie Karst, murder, mystery, restaurant

Episode 45: Nupur Tustin

Posted onMay 30, 2017May 30, 2017

The faint breeze from the open window carried the sound of the Burgermeister’s rich baritone singing the arpeggios Haydn had assigned him: “Do Mi So Mi Do.” In the distance, he could hear the soft, melodious strains of the barber-surgeon’s violin. Read More …

CategoriesAmateur Sleuth, Cozy, featured, HistoricalTagscomposer, cozy, Haydn, historical, murder, music

Episode 44: Anne Louise Bannon

Posted onMay 17, 2017May 17, 2017

Honoria took the cloche off and shrugged off the coat with the white fox collar, laying them on one of the small tables flanking the door. She sniffed. Thanks to the croup, her sense of smell was still off. Yet Read More …

CategoriesAmateur Sleuth, featured, HistoricalTags1920s, historical, mystery, romantic

Episode 38: Nancy G. West

Posted onFebruary 10, 2017March 6, 2017

Not every city has a river running through it. And not many women plan a rendezvous at a San Antonio River Walk hotel during Fiesta Week after years of self-imposed celibacy. I was about to make history. — Nancy G. Read More …

CategoriesAmateur Sleuth, Cozy, featuredTagsAggie Mundeen, cozy, mystery, Nancy G. West, San Antonio, Texas

Episode 37: Eleanor Kuhns

Posted onJanuary 24, 2017January 23, 2017

When Will Rees finally arrived home, much later than he’d expected, he found his sister Caroline in the front parlor. Again. Since Rees and his wife Lydia had returned from Salem several weeks ago, Caroline visited often and always with Read More …

CategoriesAmateur Sleuth, featured, HistoricalTagshistorical, murder, mystery, Shaker

Episode 36: Frankie Y. Bailey

Posted onDecember 21, 2016December 22, 2016

Saturday, January 18, 2020 5:47 A.M. After the storm passed, in the chilly hour before dawn, the last of the “space zombies” found their way back to their nest in the derelict house.  From his command post, the squad leader Read More …

CategoriesAmateur Sleuth, featured, Historical, PoliceTagsmystery, police, procedural

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