Leeann Betts

After Ed asks Margie to marry him, they both settle in for a quiet Christmas season. But when a series of murders mimics the books featured in her store Mystery event, Margie wonders who is out to get her? And is any of this linked to her application to expand her bookstore? Ed doesn't want to believe Margie is involved in any of these murders, but if she's completely innocent, how could one person be at every murder scene? His heart says she's not involved, but the evidence shouts otherwise.If only they could identify the connection between Margie and the murders, they might be able to be one step ahead of the killer. Nothing is easy...especially love and faith...where murder-and Margie-are involved.

When Great-Aunt Rosella calls, everybody comes running. And in this case, Margie Hanson, recently graduated with a degree in library sciences, and her mystery-writing and formerly forensic accountant grandmother, Carly Turnquist, head for Colorado. But when they arrive, Rosella is dead under mysterious circumstances. Can Margie and Carly sift through the multitude of suspects to find the killer?

Carly and Mike take the vacation of a lifetime--an Alaskan cruise. Unfortunately, Carly can't turn off her nose for trouble. Or mystery. Pretty soon she's embroiled with a series of allegations, innuendoes, overheard conversations, and even a shoving match. And before she knows it--a body. Can Carly figure out who the killer is before she ends up floating on an iceberg--or worse?

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In Carly's finale, she has three mysteries to solve. But will the killer finish her off before she solves all? or will a deadly disease be her demise?

When Carly's neighbor, a recent lottery winner who doesn't trust banks, disappears on his way home from cashing his check, Carly doesn't buy the story that he left on a long vacation. And what about this mystery friend he talks about, the one who's been giving him investment advice? Does Bob, the cyber security expert hired by the community hospital to improve its computer system, know anything about the missing neighbor? Is he involved in anything else nefarious, such as the recent bout of double and triple billings of health insurers that's been in the news? Can Carly learn the truth or will she disappear along with her neighbor and his money?

The total lunar eclipse of October 2004 leaves more than Bear Cove, Maine, in the dark. The town's newly-elected mayor, Walter Akerman, hires Carly to audit the town's books but is then caught in a compromising situation with his secretary Evie Mack. A journalist in town to cover the eclipse turns up dead. Tom and Sarah's adopted son Bradley comes to stay overnight to see the eclipse, then goes missing on a walk in town. When Mike's car is in a serious wreck which the police say is an accident, Carly thinks somebody is trying to send her a message to stay away. How can she solve all these mysteries while not completely wearing herself to a frazzle?

Carly Turnquist, forensic accountant, responds to a call from her friend, Anne, who is in the middle of a nasty divorce, and travels to Wyoming to help find assets Anne thinks her husband has stolen. But the mystery begins before Carly even arrives when she sees a man thrown off a train. Except there's no body. Husband Mike uncovers an illegal scam in a computer program he has been asked to upgrade, and then Anne is arrested for her ex's murder. Can Carly figure out what's going on, and why a strange couple is digging in Anne's basement? Or will she disappear along with the artwork, coins, and money?

Set in April 2003: Carly witnesses a bank robbery, but doesn't realize it until later; Mike's brother has a gambling problem, and is on the run from some people he owes money to, and disappears, leaving his son with Carly and Mike; Carly's credentials are called into question when one of her clients goes to court and case falls apart. And somebody is trying to stop a wedding from happening. Is Carly being set up?

Set in Nov 2002: Mike is hired to write a program for a ranch to control stock and supplies; on a family working vacation to the ranch, the foreman is found dead, and the Mike's son is suspected, after they fight over the foreman's treatment of Tom's fianc e and a horse. And all this happens in the middle of the snowstorm of the century, where all the suspects--and potential victims--are trapped on the ranch.