Author: annacelesteburke
Miriam Webster’s a woman with a few secrets……can she keep them?When Miriam Webster moves into the Seaview Cottages active adult community, the last thing she expects is to find a body on the bluffs nearby. The mystery takes a quick detour when Miriam and her friends return to Fitzgerald’s Bluff with the Deputy Sheriff. The dead woman’s gone, but not for long. Where the body turns up is only … turns up is only one of the surprising twists the mystery takes for Miriam and her friends.Can Miriam, her spirited Dalmatian, Domino, and her gang of Grand Old Lady Detectives…
Screenwriter Harry Essex claims there are “A thousand ways the desert can kill.” According to Auntie Agnes, a local tribal elder, an elusive killer is working hard to make it a thousand and one. Louie Jacobs, a minor tried as an adult, was convicted of murdering Sacramento Lugo—his best friend and Auntie Agnes’ nephew. There’s plenty of evidence that points to Louie, and Louie supposedly … supposedly confessed. Sacramento’s aunt is adamant that Louis didn’t do it. After reviewing Louie Jacob’s case, Jessica agrees to try to get it reopened. She and her “Cat Pack” friends are soon caught up…
In wine country, a federal judge is murdered and Aunt Lettie’s old friend, Judge Colin Brinkley, quickly becomes a suspect. Lily, Austin, and her friends are excited about the Calla Lily Winery vintages entered in this year’s Taste of Napa Challenge. The event turns out to be more challenging than anyone imagined when a fire ends the awards ceremony. The plot thickens when one of the wines … wines entered in the competition turns out to be a killer vintage. The U.S. Marshals Service is on the job, but when Aunt Lettie’s old friend becomes a suspect, Lily and her…
The Fourth of July Regatta is going to be a blast, but will it be Kim and Brien’s last?Rescuing a dog swimming for its life draws newlyweds, Kim, and Brien into troubled waters. The dog is safe, but the owners’ are missing. As a crime wave hits Corsario Cove, the area is packed with visitors for a Fourth of July Regatta. With the murder of a shadowy figure, the game afoot turns deadly. It won’t … It won’t be smooth sailing for anyone until these twenty-something sleuths solve the mystery behind the murder and mayhem.Grab your copy of this fun,…
A killer in the Wine Country threatens to ruin the first performance of the Calla Lily Players. The show must go on — which means Lily and Austin must catch the culprit before opening night!
Amateur sleuth Miriam and her group of friends, the Grand Old Lady Detectives, have been asked to find a Vietnam War veteran’s lost grave. But when they start digging into the disappearance, the detectives discover a complicated mystery that reeks of foul play!
In California’s Wine Country, Someone Wants Lily DeadWhen Lily Callahan returns home to California’s wine country, sparks fly amid a hail of bullets as she and U.S. Marshal Austin Jennings take cover.Money, fame, and love all come into play as motives when Lily and Austin try to find out who sent hired guns to kill Lily. The trouble begins soon after her beloved Aunt Lettie dies and leaves her … dies and leaves her estate to Lily–is it about the money?Life in small-town California wine country is a tangled vine of mystery, suspense, and intrigue.USA Today and Wall Street Journal…
Miriam Webster and the Grand Old Lady Detectives [G.O.L.D.] take on their first case when the tenant in Shakespeare’s Cottage swears the Bard of Avon’s ghost is on the prowl.Miriam’s not a believer in ghosts, but when she and her companions catch a glimpse of a hazy figure that bears Shakespeare’s unmistakable likeness, she’s no longer sure what to think. When the ghostly apparition suddenly … suddenly disappears, it leaves them mystified. Their investigation soon takes an even more bizarre twist when the ghost, to borrow a phrase from Shakespeare’s Hamlet, “shuffles off this mortal coil.” A murdered ghost means…
When trouble waltzes in, it’s not long before Georgie Shaw and Detective Jack Wheeler step in to solve another mystery!The renowned dancer, Madame Charlotte Carol Chantel, is visiting LA to participate in the World Ballroom Dance Championship. Lunch and a photo op in Arcadia Park with “Mad” Max Marley suddenly go terribly wrong. An angry woman hurls a glass of wine at Madame Chantel along with … wine at Madame Chantel along with accusations and threats. Before she can be caught, she runs away and disappears into the crowded theme park.>>>A Godmother’s Mysterious DeathCarol Ripley, Georgie’s Executive Assistant, is distraught…
Life at Seaview Cottages is peaceful enough… until Miriam Webster and her dalmatian find a body on the bluffs! Can Miriam and the Grand Old Lady Detectives catch a killer?