Debra K Gaskill

When Columbus, Ohio, businesswoman Lisa Harper tries to change her name following her wedding, she gets a rude awakening: the social security number she's used all her life isn't hers. When Ames Flaherty, the lawyer hired to find out the truth, discovers Lisa's birth certificate is also forged, Lisa finds she's been living a counterfeit life.If she's not the daughter of Dr. Regina Harper, an art professor in the hippie village of Jasper Crossing, then who is she? Is she the product of a one-night stand, fathered by a man whose name her mother never learned or can't remember? Or is she really the missing Emily Gunnel, long believed dead in a house fire and whose body was never recovered? Whispers of another man, who helped Regina and Lisa move into Jasper Crossing, have persisted all these years, despite Regina's claim otherwise. Who could that man be? And what did he do that forced him to disappear? Author Debra Gaskill returns to her fictional Plummer County, Ohio, for this novel of murder and family secrets.

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.

Think your husband is unfaithful? Call Fitz.Niccolo 'Fitz' Fitzhugh is the retired cop who runs Fitzhugh Investigations, whose business revolves around digging up dirt for local divorce lawyers. He knows, maybe better than anyone, how an unfaithful male thinks. After all, his police career came to an abrupt end when he slept with the police chief's slinky wife-and he's sleeping on his office couch because his own wife, cellist and college professor Dr. Grace Darcy, believes he hasn't changed his ways.But getting a suspected murderer off? That's not in his usual wheelhouse. When a local attorney, Jim Ambrosi hires him to prove his client Michael Atwater isn't the killer of hooker Gina Cantolini, Fitz must get to the bottom of a tangled web of small town politics and a dark, dark tale of family secrets and revenge. But at what cost?

The news is as slow as the lazy, final days of summer in Jubilant Falls when editor Addison McIntyre drives out to the Lunatic Fringe farm, to interview Russian-born Ekaterina Bolodenka for a story on her award-winning weaving and the llamas and alpacas she raises there.But there's something about farm manager Jerome Johnson that Addison doesn't trust, particularly when she-or the police-can't verify anything about either's past.Meanwhile, crime reporter Graham Kinnon is on the trail of white supremacists that may be moving into the county. One in particular may have answers to Graham's fractured past-or his future.When animals are mutilated and Jerome is murdered, the quest is on to solve the murder on the Lunatic Fringe. This is the fourth in Debra Gaskill's Jubilant Falls series.

When Marcus Henning came to the Jubilant Falls Journal-Gazette in 1982, he was looking for the one story that would change his career, give him credibility after screwing up a story in another town. Instead, he fell in love -and lost- the fiery redhead Kay James when she married an Air Force fighter pilot named Paul Armstrong. Seven years later, Kay was back - without the Major- and Marcus is on the trail of the one big story that would redeem his career. But what he uncovers could destroy everything he holds dear- his job, his career... and Kay.This is the second in Debra Gaskill's Jubilant Falls series.