Author: judypenzsheluk
In March 2000, twenty-year-old Brandon Colbeck left home to find himself on a self-proclaimed “fool’s journey.” No one—not friends or family—have seen or heard from him since, until a phone call from a man claiming to be Brandon brings the case back to the forefront. Calamity (Callie) Barnstable and her team at Past & Present Investigations have been hired to find out what happened to Brandon … Brandon and where he might be. As Callie follows a trail of buried secrets and decades-old deceptions only one thing is certain: whatever the outcome, there is no such thing as closure.more
Callie Barnstable stands to inherit her father’s house in Marketville — but only if she moves there and solves her mother’s murder! While contending with a conniving psychic, can she unearth secrets that have been buried for 30 years?
Sometimes the past reaches out to the present…It’s been thirteen months since Calamity (Callie) Barnstable inherited a house in Marketville under the condition that she search for the person who murdered her mother thirty years earlier. She solves the mystery, but what next? Unemployment? Another nine-to-five job in Toronto? Callie decides to set down roots in Marketville, take the skills and … skills and knowledge she acquired over the past year, and start her own business: Past & Present Investigations.It’s not long before Callie and her new business partner, best friend Chantelle Marchand, get their first client: a woman who wants…
Hoping to promote the Glass Dolphin antiques shop, co-owners Arabella Carpenter and Emily Garland agree to sponsor a hole in one contest at a charity golf tournament. The publicity turns out to be anything but positive, however, when Arabella’s errant tee shot lands in the woods next to a corpse.They soon learn that the victim is closely related to Arabella’s ex-husband, who had been acting as … acting as the Course Marshal. With means, opportunity, and more than enough motive, he soon becomes the police department’s prime suspect, leaving Arabella and Emily determined to clear his name—even if they’re not…
A collection of three short mystery stories by Judy Penz Sheluk, author of the critically acclaimed debut mystery novel, THE HANGED MAN’S NOOSE: A GLASS DOLPHIN MYSTERY (Barking Rain Press, July 2015). Death and Deception Appearances are often deceiving and that is the underlying premise in this collection of short crime fiction: In “Live Free or Die,” naive 21-year-old Emmy falls hard for … falls hard for 31-year-old Jack, an efficiency expert from New Hampshire who is not all that he seems. In “Murder in the Marsh,” cyclist Carrie Anne Camack discovers more than she bargained for in the fertile…
Freelance journalist Emily finds herself in the cozy town of Lount’s Landing while chasing a lucrative story. But when two dissenters to a real estate mogul’s development project are found dead, Emily’s investigative skills will be put to the test! Can she catch a killer?