Debra Gaskill

Hometown star Nora Solomon was poised for fame when she was found dead in her barn. It's a sad end to a long acting career that was ready to explode with the upcoming release of two movies.Then Nora's nephew contacts Rustbelt PI Niccolo 'Fitz' Fitzhugh to claim Nora was murdered, even though there's nothing to suggest that she died from any thing other than a heart attack.The actress certainly surrounded herself with some questionable characters. Her farm help did time for killing a man, her fan club president can't be found and her abusive boyfriend is a former cop under investigation for use of excessive force. Even her nephew has a shady past with drugs and sex work-if that's who he truly is. Any of them could be suspects in her murder.But are they?The search sends Fitz down a rabbit hole of twisted relationships and explosive secrets that will tear one family apart.This is the fifth in Debra Gaskill's award-winning Niccolo Fitzhugh series.

WINNER 2018 SILVER FALCHION BEST SUSPENSE AWARD AT KILLER NASHVILLEA Saturday of ballistic therapy at the Fawcettville gun range turns bloody for PI Niccolo 'Fitz' Fitzhugh when local social worker and community theater star Anna Maria Ippolito is found murdered in her home. It's personal too-he's been casually dating Anna Maria following his disastrous break up with prosecutor Alicia Linnerman.The discovery of a strange coded journal at Anna Maria's home makes Fitz and Anna Maria's sister Carlotta wonder if she's living some sort of double life, one Carlotta wants to know about before the police get wind of it.A box of clothing and other strange items raises more concern, even as the mayor's wife wants Fitz to investigate her husband's suspected infidelity.When Fitz cracks the journal's code, the two cases converge in a way no one could in this Rust Belt Ohio town could imagine.This is the fourth in the Niccolo Fitzhugh detective series.

What's scarier for Rust Belt PI Niccolo Fitzhugh? A dead body in the trunk of burning car or waking up in bed with prosecutor Alicia Linnerman after a blistering drunk? Fitz's life has been turned upside down since the death of his beloved wife Gracie. Outside of work, he's holed up at home alone, drowning in his grief. But sex with Alicia has him thinking she believes there might be something more than being friends with benefits-something Fitz needs to shut down and shut down fast.When a stripper from one of Fawcettville's topless joints turns down witness protection for testifying against a murderer and then comes up missing, it's an easy conclusion the body in the trunk is hers. Or is it?Fracking has come to Fawcettville, and with it a boom-town rise in crime. One man's search for his daughter may look like the act of a caring father, but Fitz has his doubts about the case-and where his relationship with Alicia could go.

A fake priest, a tempting FBI agent and a pro bono case could spell disaster for Rust Belt private investigator Niccolo Fitzhugh.The women in the life of private investigator Niccolo Fitzhugh aren't making things easy for him at all.His mother has told Father O'Malley, the priest at St. Rita, he would investigate-for free-the case of Aileen O'Connor, who lost $50,000 to con man Benedict St. Giles and who believes she's part of a rebirth of the Catholic Church. Then Fitz's beloved wife Gracie leaves him for two weeks to fend for himself to take a group of students to Vienna, -and Father O'Malley ends up dead. The case brings another problem-FBI Special Agent Fiona Rafferty who has been on St. Giles' tail since another priest was found dead. Even worse: the history she has with Fitz since she was a new police officer in Fawcettville, could explode in ways that put his life -and his marriage-in danger.Can Fitz resist the temptation that Rafferty poses? And can he rescue O'Connor before the worst happens

There are blondes - and then there are high maintenance blondes. And Eve Dahlgren was a high maintenance blonde, even forty years ago in high school.When Eve ends up dead, and Journal-Gazette publisher Earlene Whitelaw is arrested for her murder, it looks like an open and shut case. It's up to editor Addison McIntyre to prove her boss didn't kill her.But Eve's got secrets-and so does the newest Journal-Gazette reporter, Charisma Lemarnier. Will Charisma's past stand in her way as she investigates two cold case murders? Or will someone else break through her defenses to help her find peace-and love?This is the fifth in Debra Gaskill's Jubilant Falls series.

Barns are burning on farms all around Jubilant Falls, Ohio -but that's the least of newspaper editor Addison McIntyre's problems. The daughter of Golgotha College president Dr. Seaford Thorn has come up missing - along with half a million dollars from the college's endowment fund. When Addison's own daughter Isabella, already suspended from school for assaulting a teacher, attempts suicide, Addison must come to terms with the real meaning of family secrets- her own and others.Barn Burner tackles the legacy of mental illness in a small town, the secrets everyone keeps-and the damages that all of those secrets can do. "Debra Gaskill's small town Jubilant Falls reads as true as Faulkner's Jefferson, Mississippi. And her deftly drawn characters enjoy equal depth and humanity. Addison MacIntyre engages the reader's respect and affection from the first page and, down to her nicotine stained fingers, Addison makes the reader long for her next crime to solve or mystery to unravel. Debra Gaskill's Addison MacIntyre series feels as real and true and unforgettable as Boo Radley's front porch."-Douglas Savage, author of the novels The Court Martial of Robert E. Lee (History Book Club main selection)Barn Burner is the first in a series of mysteries set in Jubilant Falls, Ohio and Addison McIntyre is the latest addition to the reporter/sleuth literary tradition.

Times are tough in the newspaper business these days. In between staff cuts, furloughs and declining advertising dollars, Jubilant Falls Journal-Gazette editor Addison McIntyre hasn't got time to listen when candidate Rick Starrett claims his opponent Virginia Ferguson ran a dirty state senate campaign.Short on staff, time and patience, she can't waste time on sore losers-then Virginia Ferguson is shot. As she dies, she names Rick Starrett as the man who pulled the trigger. That gets Addison's attention.To further complicate things, Kay Henning, the wife of reporter Marcus Henning, has come up missing and believed to be in danger. Did she leave of her own accord or was she kidnapped?Is there something that ties these two events together? Who's telling the truth? And who is telling what could be lethal little lies? This is the third in Debra Gaskill's Jubilant Falls series.