The gifts are wrapped and the kids excited, but Effie Crane’s holiday mood is anything but sparkly and bright. She needs an escape from the life that is slowly breaking her spirit. Then her best friend, Cybil Grace, invokes the codeword. They have to leave their home and jobs now. While concerned for her friend,…
A Whispering Pines Mystery, Prequel It looked like an open and shut case, one that shouldn’t have landed on homicide detective Jayne O’Shea’s desk: a UW-Madison student died from an apparent opioid overdose. Except, the victim’s roommate called 911 claiming to have video proof that the death was no accident. Now, the caller has gone…
Ten glorious days with her boyfriend hiking in the tropical Maui jungles, going on romantic moonlit walks on the beach, and imbibing in an occasional fruity umbrella drink. The only foreseeable problem is insuring they applied enough sunscreen to their pasty-white Wisconsinite skin. This is Jayne O’Shea’s plan for her Hawaiian vacation. The one thing, the…
Everything is set for the O’Shea family’s first Christmas in their new home. After days of decorating, the house is perfect. Well, except for the glittering aluminum tree Lucy hates but her husband adores. It’s a silly thing, really, but when surrounded by two thousand acres of pristine pine forest, a silver tree just doesn’t…
Eighteen-year-old kitchen witch Reeva Long doesn’t like breaking rules. Doing so can lead to big trouble. Not following the carefully laid out steps of a recipe, for example, could mean the difference between a perfect quiche and a plate of scrambled eggs. So it goes against Reeva’s rule-following nature when crocheted ornaments in traditional Christmas…
Ornaments made from twigs, feathers found on the forest floor, and antlers dropped by a generous buck. Lucy O’Shea’s Yule tree is almost done. She just needs to add dried orange slices and the popcorn-and-cranberry garland. Perfection. Then comes a knock at her door and she finds a half-frozen young woman in a threadbare coat…
