Here is an exerpt from my new detective series released in Fall 2007. 

Just a Gumshoe Mystery

Murder at the Oasis

The Oasis Bed and Breakfast officially opens for business when the O'Shay family's invites the whole town of Spencer City, Connecticut to theirThanksgiving dinner. The day is spent reminiscing with their family and friends sitting on every available spot on the porch and steps of the new hostelry.

With the Christmas season approaching, there isn't any time for the newlyweds to reflect on their new life together. The entire staff has to start decorating the country inn with fragrant balsam boughs, holly branches with bright red berries and stringing the twinkling lights on all the shrubs and trees on the grounds.

Everything is going according to plan until a body is found underneath one of the gazebos. Dr Maxwell Fox, the newly elected county coroner, rules the death suspicious when he sees the knife still embedded in the chest cavity.

Who is the mystery man and who murdered him? The ensuing investigation brings out a few surprising facts about more than one prominent person in the small town.

Is the spark between FBI Agent Brian Miller and Josie Palmer, a Private Eye hired to help find the killer, animosity between two competing investigators or something else?

COMING IN NOVEMBER 2008

EMPTY CRADLE, second book in my Gumshoe Mystery Series, will be available for purchase in November from Barnes&Noble, Amazon, iUniverse.com or directly from the author. Check the website ordering page for more information.  Below is the backcover blurb:

Escaping from being one of Hartford PD’s finest to the world of private investigations Josie Palmer is starting to accept the senseless death of her partner, John Henderson, when tragedy strikes again. Jean-Claude, his son and Josie’s godchild, is kidnapped.

His widow, Camille, turns to her best friend, Josie, to help find the kidnappers before they can harm her only child. Knowing the first 24 hours are critical, the private eye, along with her partner and a few close friends, searches the crime scene for clues that will lead to the culprits.

Can Josie save the day or will Fate be a cruel master once again?

Join the private eye as she races with the clock to find one small boy and bring him home to his mother.