If laughter is the best medicine, John Smith belongs in everyone's medicine cabinet.In In$urance to Die For, a scam artist's plan for making money off of insurance turns deadly. John Smith, an insurance investigator as ordinary and nondescript as his name, is determined to protect his company's reputation, but his investigation is frequently interrupted by his war with local crows, the gift of an uncontrollable kitten who hates him, and being signed up for a dating app by prankster poker players. He ends up with more enemies than Harry Potter and discovers that sometimes being a klutz is a life-saving skill.

In$urance to Die For: A John Smith Mystery

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Stuart, Charlotte

Mystery

Level Best Books

When single mom and recent widow Cameron Chandler takes a much-needed job at Penny-wise Investigations, a detective agency conveniently located in a suburban shopping mall, she grabs the chance to reinvent herself. Her first case is to locate a runaway girl, something her predecessor had been pursuing before he disappeared. Following in his footsteps, the trail leads to a survivalist camp on a remote island in northern Puget Sound. Armed with only a Swiss Army Knife and her quirky on-the-job training as a suburban sleuth, Cameron uncovers more than she bargained for. She soon finds herself in a fight for her own survival in this lighthearted mystery set in Seattle and the San Juan Islands to the north.

Survival Can Be Deadly: A Discount Detective Mystery (1)

Literature & Fiction

Walrus Publishing

When two investigators, Cameron Chandler and Yuri Webster, discover a body next to a pile of stolen signs, what began as a prank becomes a murder investigation. The local candidate for the U.S. Congressional seat gets all of the endorsements, but he can't compete with the unlimited resources of his opponent. Funded by an east coast family in the oil business, the out-of-state candidate takes the state by storm, marrying the daughter of a local prestigious family and flooding the airwaves with ads, many of them negative. Cameron and Yuri soon find themselves targets in a battle between the local candidate, big oil interests, and anti-big oil activists.

Campaigning Can Be Deadly

Amphorae Publishing Group, LLC

A shooter shatters the suburban calm in a mall . . . Single mom, Cameron Chandler, an investigator with Penny-wise Investigations, a discount detective agency conveniently located in a suburban mall, is approaching her office when gunshots echo off the mall walls, and she sees a young man collapse just a few feet away. Chaos breaks out in the packed mall as people try to escape. Cameron kneels beside the gunshot victim and is grabbed from behind by a man she fears is the shooter. As he forcibly drags her toward the mall exit, she suddenly realizes who he is--Gary, a man who once saved her life. Once outside, Gary admits that he was the shooter's target. He and three associates had engaged in what they thought was a legitimate but secret operation only to find themselves caught in a quagmire of government intrigue and covert manipulation. She agrees to help by taking care of his dog while he investigates why someone is trying to eliminate them. After Cameron agrees to foster Gary's large dog Bandit, someone shows up at Penny-wise with a description of Bandit, claiming that he wants them to locate "his" dog and Cameron realizes that she and her family could be in danger. Next, a woman claiming to be with the FBI wants to talk with Cameron about Gary, but her boss at Penny-Wise decides it's time the agency steps in to investigate what's going on.

Shopping Can Be Deadly (A Discount Detective Mystery)

In Moonlight Can Be Deadly , Cameron's family has a fascination with the gruesome details of the death which occurred at a midnight sacrificial ritual, but are torn about the tactics by the ecofeminist group, despite their support of the group's mission. When Cameron attends a climate change rally with her colleague, Yuri, they bring along her children. Unfortunately, when Cameron leaves Yuri and her kids to try to get her client's niece out of harm's way, she gets caught up in a mass arrest after an explosion occurs. Cameron and Yuri interview a number of suspects, including a handsome professor who Cameron decides is "dateworthy," but she is alone when she confronts the person responsible for not one but two deaths. Instinct and training kick in at the last minute to prevent her from becoming the murderer's third victim.

Moonlight Can Be Deadly (A Discount Detective Mystery)

In ancient Greece, the chimera was a bad omen. In WHY ME?, it's a motive for murder. Bryn Baczek, a Seattle consultant, is vacationing in Scotland, hiking alone in a downpour, surrounded by midges, when she sees a body at the bottom of a ravine. Before she can return to the scene with the mountain rescue team, the body disappears. She learns that he was a scientist and that his laptop containing his cutting-edge research has disappeared. Rumors that Bryn has the laptop make her a target.

Why Me?: Chimeras, Conundrums, and Dead Goldfish (Macavity and Me Mystery)

Taylor and Seale Publishing

Bogged Down is a mystery set on Vashon Island, a place that has been described as Mayberry-meets-Burning Man. Lavender (Lew) Lewis moved there because it is only a twenty-minute ferry ride from Seattle, yet light years away in tempo and character. She grew up on a commune in Alaska, joined the army at 17, does woods parkour for exercise and HR investigations to earn a living. Life in her waterfront cabin with her two food-obsessed cats is predictable and relatively stress free. Until she leads a tour group into an ancient bog on the island and discovers a body.The victim is one of the island’s most passionate pro-wilding advocates. While the official investigation focuses on those opposed to preserving wildlife on the island, Lew is convinced that the location of the murder in the fragile ecosystem of the bog is key to solving the crime.

Bogged Down: A Vashon Island Mystery

WHO, ME?: Fog Bows, Fraud and Aphrodite (Macavity and Me Mystery)

A young boy dies during a midnight ceremony. A fish buyer and $75,000 goes missing. And a runaway becomes the object of an Alaskan wilderness search. 
It is 1979 in a small native village in Alaska accessible only by boat. The local Tlingits continue to honor many traditions of the past, although increased contact with the outside world is accelerating a cultural shift. Caught in a slipstream of time, the village has become a curious blend of old and new. 
When a young boy dies from a potion that was supposed to cure his limp, all the evidence points to the teenage shaman as the killer. It is up to Jonah St. Clair, the only police officer in the village, to solve the murder and, at the same time, find the missing fish buyer. To do so, he must use both his police skills and his knowledge of the local culture. 
During his investigation, Jonah becomes prey and predator in a nighttime chase through the Alaskan wilderness and barely survives a rugged boat trip in dangerous waters. In the end, he not only apprehends a killer but discovers the bittersweet secret of the Raven's Grave.

Raven's Grave

United States

Vine Leaves Press

Midnight for Justice: A Courtroom Drama Legal Mystery (Warren & Carmichael Legal Thrillers)

Stuart, Don

Quartermaster Publishing

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