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Meet Jesse O’Hara, the woman with the “million-dollar brain and a ten-cent personality.” With time on her hands and the lure of international beverages, Jesse and her best pal Sam travel the world, bumping into drug kingpins, radical nationalist groups, espionage rings, and numerous dead bodies at every port. Aided by their tech genius Gideon and Jesse’s near-photographic memory, Jesse and her team leverage wit, sarcasm, and the lure of mouthwatering cuisine to avoid calamity and reveal truth. Laugh-out-loud and tightly plotted, this series is not to be missed. Will Jesse and her pals travel to Scotland next? It could happen.

Amateur sleuth | travel mystery | women detectives | crime thriller

Murder on the Spanish Seas
# 1
Murder Beyond the Pale
#2
Murder in the Greek Isles
#3

Undercover work under the dark streets of Chicago proves a challenging terrain for Sagarine Pfister, a chef who’d rather be turning out world-class tasting menus than solving murders. Reluctantly recruited as an FBI informant, Sags and her Chicago Police Department analyst friend Maude navigate a dead body in restaurant freezer, a fentanyl druglord who won’t take no for an answer, and a murderous diamond kingpin. The good friends’ own trauma-producing families and secretive pasts complicate things futher, bringing depth to these complex, engaging mysteries.

Suspense Thriller | Detective Mystery | Crime Fiction

Knife Skills
#1
Tunnel Vision
#2
Rough Cut by Wendy Church
# 3

Meet Grace Hartwell, a dedicated cop bent on justice in the largest city in the country. She’s on the hunt for a serial killer—but something seems to be hunting her as well. She’s got a lot of terrain to cover, and it’s all sweat-soaked in conspiracy, corruption, and menacing flare-ups. Is the killer playing an exceptionally clever game? Or is Grace losing touch with herself? As the bodies fall, how can she tell the difference between this demon on the loose, and the ones hidden deep in her own psyche?

Police Procedural | Psychological Thriller | Murder Mystery

Five Things I See
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