For five days, from October 1 – 5, you can enjoy nine (9!) of my mysteries and thrillers FREE on Kindle. Just CLICK ON MY AMAZON PAGE or one of the book links below and start downloading for your killer Halloween reads.

Kyle Callahan Mysteries
Murder at Pride Lodge
Pride and Perilous
Death by Pride
Death in the Headlights
Kill Switch
Last Room at the Cliff’s Edge
Reservation for Murder

Marshall James Thrillers
Murder at the Paisley Parrot
Beautiful Corpse

Stop by the Frenchtown Bookshop and meet the author – me! – on the spacious covered front porch. I’ll have my newest book, Open Secrets: A Maggie Dahl Mystery, as well as Black Cat White Paws, the first in the series. Let’s introduce ourselves and solve a murder or two!

22 years in the making … I’ve finally complied a ‘best of’ short story collection from the past decades. Tundra: Short Fiction 2000 – 2022 is now available as an eBook, with the paperback coming soon. Thanks to one of my favorite authors Jean Ryan for the foreword.

From the book description:

Tundra gathers together the best of the author’s short stories written over a 20-plus-year span, beginning in 2000 and concluding with the most recent (Paper Hearts) written in 2022. In this collection we meet a dizzying array of characters, each deeply human and often deeply flawed.

In Push, we meet a man who has devoted his life to pleasing others, and who now finds himself unable to do any of it over.

In The Cat in the Window, we’re introduced to a woman whose nemesis is a cat that stares at her from another apartment, daring her to change her life.

Memory Box tells the story of a young girl whose father leaves her only memories and a bird’s feather.

Rough and Tumble (A Dystopian Love Tragedy) tells a tale from a dark future, where two men who have been inseparable for years each decide to make this day their last.

And in Stop the Car, three teenagers on an Indiana backroad encounter something extraordinary that will shape them for the rest of their lives.

Tundra is a collection of short fiction that cuts close to the human bone, exposing the most hidden parts of ourselves as it reveals us in the characters we encounter on this journey through the pages. We may not always be them, but they are always us: joyful, hesitant, loving, hating, wanting, regretting, and above all, living.

Thanks as always to my husband Frank Murray who also serves as my unpaid agent and press person. He lets the Bucks County Herald know when I have a new book, and they came through again. Sweet!

August is a killer, and what better way to beat the heat than with a cool drink and a brand new murder mystery. My latest, ‘Open Secrets: A Maggie Dahl Mystery’, is available free on Kindle for five days only. Starting August 5 and ending August 9, you can download the second book in the Maggie Dahl series for no cost. Just click and enjoy!

Reminder: reviews and ratings are always appreciated. 

About ‘Open Secrets’

Maggie Dahl returns in ‘Open Secrets.’ It’s been six months since the media circus surrounding the last murder Maggie solved, and a year since her beloved husband David died. The dust seems to have finally settled. Then one morning a customer walks in and asks Maggie to do her a favor.

Soon a body is discovered on a rural New Jersey road. A body Maggie is sure belongs to a local author whose next book was rumored to reveal secrets not everyone wanted known. But were they enough to kill for? And who murdered the woman found in the woods? Maggie is determined to find out, even as her life continues its road back to normal, complete with the possibility of new love. Can she find the answers she seeks in the death of a local celebrity? And will love be part of her life once again when she least expects it?

I must say I really like the way this cover turned out. It’s one of my best.

Now available: eBook and paperback editions of Open Secrets: A Maggie Dahl Mystery

Download a free 6-chapter sample HERE!

About Open Secrets

Maggie Dahl returns in ‘Open Secrets.’ It’s been six months since the media circus surrounding the last murder Maggie solved, and a year since her beloved husband David died. The dust seems to have finally settled. Then one morning a customer walks in and asks Maggie to do her a favor.

Soon a body is discovered on a rural New Jersey road. A body Maggie is sure belongs to a local author whose next book was rumored to reveal secrets not everyone wanted known. But were they enough to kill for? And who murdered the woman found in the woods? Maggie is determined to find out, even as her life continues its road back to normal, complete with the possibility of new love. Can she find the answers she seeks in the death of a local celebrity? And will love be part of her life once again when she least expects it?

It’s not available quite yet, but everything’s been formatted and submitted. Any day now you’ll be able to get the paperback edition of ‘Open Secrets: A Maggie Dahl Mystery.’ Can’t wait that long? Pick up the eBook edition now!

About ‘Open Secrets’

Maggie Dahl returns in ‘Open Secrets.’ It’s been six months since the media circus surrounding the last murder Maggie solved, and a year since her beloved husband David died. The dust seems to have finally settled. Then one morning a customer walks in and asks Maggie to do her a favor.

Soon a body is discovered on a rural New Jersey road. A body Maggie is sure belongs to a local author whose next book was rumored to reveal secrets not everyone wanted known. But were they enough to kill for? And who murdered the woman found in the woods? Maggie is determined to find out, even as her life continues its road back to normal, complete with the possibility of new love. Can she find the answers she seeks in the death of a local celebrity? And will love be part of her life once again when she least expects it?

Nothing says fireworks like a July 4th Goodreads giveaway! Enter to win 1 of 100 Kindle copies of Open Secrets: A Maggie Dahl Mystery. The giveaway runs from July 4th through the 31st. For U.S. subscribers only (sorry, it’s a Kindle rule).

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About Open Secrets

Maggie Dahl returns in ‘Open Secrets.’ It’s been six months since the media circus surrounding the last murder Maggie solved, and a year since her beloved husband David died. The dust seems to have finally settled. Then one morning a customer walks in and asks Maggie to do her a favor.

Soon a body is discovered on a rural New Jersey road. A body Maggie is sure belongs to a local author whose next book was rumored to reveal secrets not everyone wanted known. But were they enough to kill for? And who murdered the woman found in the woods? Maggie is determined to find out, even as her life continues its road back to normal, complete with the possibility of new love. Can she find the answers she seeks in the death of a local celebrity? And will love be part of her life once again when she least expects it?

Well that was fast! And what a great way to start a holiday weekend. One Thing or Another: Life, Aging, and the Absurdities of It All All hits #1 in humor short reads. I’ll take it!

About One Thing or Another

One Thing or Another is a collection of humor columns that take a look at life, aging, and the absurdities of it all. From our culture’s refusal to use the word ‘old,’ to the sometimes comical consequences of aging in body and mind, if not always in spirit. Collected from the author’s personal columns, these short essays will make you chuckle, recognize yourself, and sometimes grimace at the not-always-funny price we pay for simply staying alive.