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An Avenging Angel Detective Agency™ Mystery - Read the Titles in Any Order

Beautiful private detective Sarah Payne is haunted by her past . . . and disappears into the shadows behind the sleek honeymoon façade of Niagara Falls. There, she goes undercover to solve a deadly mystery—and finds herself ensnared in a web of duplicity, betrayal, and double-dealing . . . and the secret world of enigmatic industrialist Charles Kendall.

Meanwhile, in fashionable Ashwood, sultry widow Alicia Miller takes command of her murdered husband’s envelope company and has ideas of her own . . .

A tale of industrial espionage, love, and betrayal—set against the backdrop of the glittering Gilded Age—Current of Darkness will draw readers in, and hold them under, until its final, explosive pages.

Another Chart-Topping Title

Buffalo, New York, 1901 . . .

Not quite thirteen years have passed since Jack the Ripper terrorized Whitechapel, London. And now, in the very shadow of the great Pan-American Exposition, someone has started murdering the prostitutes of Buffalo’s Tenderloin District—and carving strange symbols into their bodies.

Neither police, vigilantes, nor the frightened working girls themselves have any clue to the identity—or the motive—of the Buffalo Butcher. And no one seems to care . . . it’ll be up to the working girls themselves to stop the carnage. Five of them will stand together to confront the killer…and to reclaim their humanity.

An Avenging Angel Detective Agency™ Mystery - Read the Titles in Any Order

Society detective Sarah Payne takes on her first cases as head of the Avenging Angel Detective Agency™ . . . and finds herself up to her (very lovely) neck in danger and duplicity. With all of Buffalo’s corrupt city government arrayed against her, Sarah vows to bring justice to her murdered lover . . . and in the process builds not only a winning case but a new kind of detective agency.

A tense courtroom drama -- and a rigged system -- bring Sarah Payne's fledgling Avenging Angel Detective Agency into conflict with shadowy figures who will stop at nothing to keep the truth from coming to light. 

Award-winning second novel in the Avenging Angel Detective Agency™ Mysteries.

An Avenging Angel Detective Agency™ Mystery - The Origin Story - Read the Titles in Any Order

Meet smoldering Alicia Miller, brooding Arthur Pendle, and fledgling detective Sarah Payne in this award-winning origin story to the Avenging Angel Detective Agency™ Mysteries … love, lust, and murder set against the backdrop of the great Pan-American Exposition … a dark and deep psychological exploration of forbidden pleasures and unfathomable pain …

Set against the backdrop of Gilded Age excess, and based on Buffalo's unsolved 'crime of the century', The Unsealing takes readers on a journey into the gritty underworld of crime, official corruption . . .  and murder.