For his next hardboiled outing, P.I. Frank Johnson accepts a seemingly bizarre case from Jules Sturgeon who has experienced disturbing dreams about her murder. The next morning Frank finds his new client...

For his next hardboiled outing, P.I. Frank Johnson accepts another missing-person case, this time the gorgeous 19-year-old Clover Digges who has vanished from her home in Middleburg, Virginia. He opens...

For his next hardboiled outing, P.I. Frank Johnson accepts an infidelity case where Webb Lohr believes his wife Danica is having an affair. Then Webb is found murdered in his car at a desolate crossroads....

For his next hardboiled outing, P.I. Frank Johnson accepts a homicide case when Kitty Lovejoy seeks out his assistance in solving the grisly murder of her husband, Sloane, a retired pharmaceutical chemist....

For their twelfth mystery, Isabel and Alma Trumbo, the retired sister sleuths living in Quiet Anchorage, Virginia, undertake solving yet another murder mystery. Their neighbor Trish Cox's grandson Jason...

Phyllis Garner, the kooky and funny bag lady, refuses to accept her best friend Ladybug Miles’ death is an accidental drowning in the Cornet River. The blustery, know-it-all Sheriff Roscoe Fox has officially...

Quiet Anchorage, Virginia, is just like any other small town but with one notable difference: the dead bodies keep turning up. Fortunately, Sheriff Roscoe Fox, who never met a sugar-glazed doughnut served...

For their eighth mystery, Isabel and Alma Trumbo, the retired sister sleuths living in Quiet Anchorage, Virginia, undertake solving yet another murder mystery. Uncle Jimbo who runs the town antique shop...

Piper and Bill Robins, a retired married couple, are enjoying their leisure years spent in the tranquil, leafy Washington, D.C. suburb of Beverly Park, Virginia. Bill watches "Pawn Stars" on TV and mows...

On the same day sister sleuths Isabel and Alma Trumbo's beloved beagle Petey Samson runs away from home, they confront their ninth murder mystery. Holly McBride, owner and operator of the popular spice...

For their next outing, Isabel and Alma Trumbo, the ace sister sleuths living in small town Quiet Anchorage, Virginia, are planting marigolds in their flowerbed when Alma unearths a curious bone. Isabel...

Piper and Bill Robins, a retired couple, are enjoying their leisure years spent in the tranquil, leafy Washington, D.C. suburb of Beverly Park, Virginia. Bill watches “Pawn Stars” on TV and mows his lawn...

Quiet Anchorage, Virginia, is like any other sleepy small town until Jake Robbins is murdered, and his fiancée Megan Connors is arrested for it. The laidback, good ole boy Sheriff Roscoe Fox feels smugly...

For their tenth mystery, Isabel and Alma Trumbo, the retired sister sleuths living in Quiet Anchorage, Virginia, undertake solving yet another murder mystery. When their friend Eve Palmer phones Isabel...

It's every cop's worst nightmare: a violent felon he put behind bars paroles out and comes after him and his family. Five years ago, homicide sergeant Ismail O'Dwyer arrested Boyo Slade after a bar brawl...

For their seventh mystery, Isabel and Alma Trumbo, the retired sister sleuths living in Quiet Anchorage, Virginia, tackle one of their more unusual murder cases to date. Stan Bennett, Alma’s first ex-husband,...

Down in the sleepy, quaint Virginia small town of Quiet Anchorage, murder is the last thing any person living there would expect to happen on a summer day. Sisters Isabel and Alma Trumbo—both are retired...

For their next mystery, Isabel and Alma Trumbo, the ace sister sleuths living in Quiet Anchorage, Virginia, are called in by Sheriff Roscoe Fox to investigate the puzzling murder taking place in the florist...

Narrated by Brendan Fishback, an 18-year-old printing plant worker, Lake Charles opens in 1979 with him traveling to the fictional Lake Charles located in East Tennessee. His kid sister Renee and best...

For their eleventh mystery, Isabel and Alma Trumbo, the retired sister sleuths living in Quiet Anchorage, Virginia, undertake to solve yet another murder mystery. Their hairstylist Laura Isherwood is...

Hope Jones operates the Brontë Bookshop in the hamlet of Sweet Springs, Virginia. Her best friend and business partner Peggy Sue Roswell assists Hope along with Stacey, her smart, spirited fifteen-year-old...

For his next hardboiled outing, P.I. Frank Johnson accepts a case from a distraught woman who suspects her husband of 10 years is having an affair with his female office manager. Before Frank can launch...

For his next hardboiled outing, P.I. Frank Johnson accepts his first birth-parents search for his gorgeous, 23-year-old client, Nikki Colvin, whose adoptive parents are deceased. She has reason to believe...

For his next hardboiled outing, P.I. Frank Johnson accepts the cold case homicide of 18-year-old Noel Fryer, occurring three years ago in his hometown of Pelham, Virginia. She worked at the local jewelry...

"Ed Lynskey's new novel PELHAM FELL HERE is a delight. With a plot as complex as your grandmother's crocheted doilies, Mr. Lynskey creates a portrait of the rural hill country that rings as true as the...

For his next hardboiled outing, P.I. Frank Johnson accepts the cold case homicide of Grits Wigfall, a 55-year-old Black man, in his hometown of Pelham, Virginia. Grits works as the front counterman at...

After surviving a bad experience in his hometown, P.I. Frank Johnson moves away to Scarab, West Virginia, drawn by the promise of its leisurely days and the lure of its tranquil leafy mountains. Instead,...

PI Frank Johnson is hired by Mary Taliaferro, a wealthy aristocrat owning a horse estate near Middleburg, Virginia. Mary's teen-age daughter Emily has died in a riding tragedy. The local law enforcement...

When American diplomat Sylvester Mercedes flies into Ankara, Turkey on what is supposed to be a normal business trip, he mysteriously vanishes from his hotel room. With her husband now missing for more...

Older and wiser, P.I. Frank Johnson, in his fifth outing, has moved to the Washington, D.C. suburbs where he lives with his fiancé Dreema Atkins. Times are lean. No new P.I. cases have rolled Frank's...