Can Lillian uncover who set the fire—or will she discover the truth is something she can’t admit… even to herself?

Lillian Dove just wanted a quiet life in small-town Iowa—until she happens to witness a suspicious fire. Suddenly she’s not only the key witness, she’s the prime target. The police think she knows more than she’s saying, criminals want to keep her quiet, and every answer she finds only uncovers more secrets about her neighbors… and herself.

Now Lillian is forced into a dangerous game of truth and survival, with a past she’s tried to outrun closing in fast. Someone is lying—but is it the arsonist, the police, or Lillian herself?

The question is: how far will she go—and what will she risk—to uncover the truth before it’s too late?

"The mystery keeps thrusting back on itself like a maze, but comes to a good resolution, and a satisfying ending."

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What price is too great to stop a killing spree?

Elizabeth Benoit ran for sheriff to wipe out the corruption in the good old boys network of Eckardt County, but she has yet to break in her shoes when a stranger’s body is found in a ravine. With her ex back in town, a new deputy detective on the edge of losing control, and a crooked ex-sheriff out for revenge, Elizabeth’s resources are stretched thin. And then the second body drops.

Fearing a serial killer on the loose, Elizabeth launches an investigation that lays bare more than one family secret: The Kauffmann matriarch is full of advice, but her progeny have a mean streak that leaves a path of destruction in their wake. The Meyer patriarch has his own agenda, and the Kauffmanns have been a thorn in his ambition for too long.

Elizabeth and her deputies are about to face off against odds that are not in their favor. Only one source can tip the scales, but will she sell her soul for his help?

The first book in the bestselling mystery series by R.L. Ryker.

Murder lurks in the shadows of the Pacific Northwest’s Olympic Mountains.

Former major crimes detective Brandon Mattson returns to Forks, WA to take command of his hometown’s fledgling police force. Brandon’s respite from homicide is short-lived when a body washes ashore on the nearby Quileute Reservation.

Vicious fang marks and a series of ominous vampire-related graffiti point to members of a local cult. But Brandon isn’t so sure wannabe vampires are to blame, and it soon becomes evident that more than one person had reason to murder the young woman.

Balancing a homicide investigation, small-town politics, and raising a fifteen-year-old daughter, Brandon is running out of time to solve the case before the bloodthirsty killer claims another victim.

A New Year’s Eve party rings in…a dead body.

Hollywood 1934

It’s New Year’s Eve, the dawn of the Golden Age of Hollywood movies. Lisette Darling finds herself ringing in the new year with the biggest and brightest stars of Olympus Studios at the owner’s grand mansion in the Hollywood Hills.

When the clock strikes 12:00, kisses are exchanged, glasses are raised, champagne is downed…and one starlet is dead from poisoning before the clock can strike 12:01.

At a party where ambition, deceit, and jealousy flowed more freely than the bubbly, there’s more than one suspect to be had. And they all have secrets.

As the gal Friday to Olympus’s “fixer,” Lisette is used to putting out fires. Now, she finds herself battling the biggest one of her career. It’s an inferno she has a personal interest in finding the cause of…because she may have been the one to let the killer into the party!

A Sparkling Case of Murder is the first book in the Lisette Darling Golden Age Mysteries series set in 1930s Hollywood. Enjoy a mix of witty humor, twisty suspense, and the glitz and glamour reminiscent of classic films all set in a cozy mystery.

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