Mysteries
Perilous Threads (A Virginia Davies Quilt Mystery)
Virginia Davies Clark and her husband Professor Andy Clark have no idea what’s in store for them as they attend an estate auction in Georgetown, TX. Virginia wins the bid for an antique quilt and a ships log from the 1700s. Upon leaving the auction someone attempts to rob her of the quilt.
Mysterious Threads – Book 13
Virginia Davies Clark and her friend Natalie North go to a quilt retreat to teach workshops at the Mayfield, An historic ranch in Williamson County, northwest of Georgetown, Texas. But Virginia’s lessons in paper piecing and Natalie’s lessons in knit felting are no match for Colin Carswell’s…
Secret Threads – Book 12
Virginia Davies Clark and the Bee Hive Quilt Guild are set to invite newcomer Amanda Radford, a retired engineer, into their group. Hoping Amanda’s crafty reputation will perk up the Quilt Bee’s patchwork proceedings, they arrive at her home only to find her dead and a couple of her exquisite, prize-winning quilts missing.
Whispering Threads – Book 11
Virginia ventures to Palm Springs, California for a quilt show and conference. It’s also a reunion and respite for her and her long time friend, Donna Bolette. A few days of fun, sun, and quilting can’t hurt.
Suspicious Threads (A Virginia Davies Quilt Mystery)
It’s hard to imagine anything really bad ever happening in picturesque Georgetown, Texas–until a famous face rolls into town and unthreads some very dark secrets. . .
Trail of Threads (A Virginia Davies Quilt Mystery)
Someone tried to kill a friend of Virginia Davies Clark in Virginia’s museum. The killers are after the gold, a mysterious Civil War era quilt, jade jaguar, and a ceremonial jade dagger her friend just inherited. More murders take place because of the old quilt and the inheritance. The list of suspects includes a university professor and a few relatives of Virginia’s friend. They all look suspicious and innocent at the same time.
Red Tide Murders (A Jack Turner Mystery)
Jack Turner, Ph.D., is a chemist and the Coroner of San Sebastian County California. Jack is called to active duty by the Army and with his girlfriend, a health department officer, Nancy Cartwright, must find the source of the toxic cocktail, find the perpetrators, stop anyone from using it as a terrorist weapon and causing a pandemic.
Murder at Webster Point Inn — Virginia Davies mystery #8
Webster Point Inn, an old manor house built before the Revolutionary War, set in spectacular forests and hills above the deep-blue waters of Lake Ontario, is the vacation destination of Virginia Davies Clark and her husband Dr. Andy Clark. He envisions a relaxing retreat fishing in a near-by trout stream and out on Lake Ontario.
Chimera (2013) — a Jack Turner mystery
Someone breaks into the high-level security section of USAMRIID (US ARMY MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES) at Fort Detrick, Maryland and stole vials of weaponized smallpox. Later the individual is found dead at the Washington, DC train station.
Dangerous Threads (2013) (A Virginia Davies Quilt Mystery)
Virginia Davies-Clark is called back into the service of the Smithsonian Central Security Service and the Department of Defense, along with her husband Andy and her friend Donna, to locate a quilt. This isn’t just any quilt. It contains wire recorder data on Einstein’s final “Uniform Field Theory” or Theory of Everything.
The Trashy Gourmet (2012) — An Adam Thomas mystery #2
Adam Thomas has a knack for finding dead bodies. He also has a knack for tracking down cold-blooded killers. During his month-long sojourn in chef’s school in Georgetown, Texas, newspaper columnist Adam Thomas, aka the Trashy Gourmet, embroils himself embroiled in yet another murder mystery.
Quest for the Crystal Skull(2010) — Virginia Davies mystery #6
Virginia entangles the reader in a rapid-fire adventure involving the worlds of murder, voodoo, and antique fraud and the sights and sounds of Texas, New Orleans and Rome up to the high stakes end on the Mediterranean Sea.
San Gabriel’s Secret (2009) — Adam Thomas mystery #1
A mysterious Civil War journal lands in the hands of newspaper columnist Adam Thomas – immersing him in a strange and deadly treasure hunt.
Left At Georgetown (2007) — Virginia Davies mystery #5
Virginia Davies has a lot going on in her life – a new marriage, new city, new job, a new play – and murder!
Castle Finlaystoke (2005) — Virginia Davies Mystery #4
Museum curator Virginia Davies is on a vacation with her fiancé, Dr. Andy Clark, and his parents to Scotland to visit Andy’s Great Uncle, The Baron of Finlaystoke. Snobbish relatives, pompous lawyers, poisonings, a madman on a motorcycle and someone out to kill her make for another misadventure for Virginia.
Pelican Cove (2003) — Virginia Davies Mystery #3
While vacationing in the romantic seaside town of Pelican Cove with her boyfriend, Virginia stumbles upon the truth about a sunken ship involving smuggling, drugs, deceit and murder.
Napa Nights (2001) — Virginia Davies Mystery #2
Museum curator, Virginia Davies, attends the American Archaeological Convention in Napa, California. The arrival of The Reverend Hockings is controversial enough. His dropping dead makes it worse.
Laguna Treasure (2000) — Virginia Davies Mystery #1
Virginia Davies, a graduate student in history is embroiled in an unclassic adventure involving a hoard of gold, thieves and a ring of smugglers in a plot that almost costs Virginia and her friends their lives.