On September eleventh of 2001, Alan Flarke was in a motel with his girlfriend, not in his office, when the planes hit. He took advantage of the situation and killed the girlfriend, then disappeared with five million in company funds. With money and fake identities, his life became a no rules game. When he was spotted jogging in Chicago by a former neighbor, Maria Hart, Chicago's pluckiest red-headed insurance investigator gets called in. The more she investigates, the more she takes the case personally. And, the more she learns about Alan Flarke, the more she realizes he's become a...

In her second adventure Maria Hart, Chicago's plucky redhead insurance investigator, is hot on the trail of someone who is killing off the infomercial stars. As she travels from Chicago to Oswego, New York, to Milwaukee, to the Hudson Valley of New York, and finally back to Oswego, she gets the feeling she's climbed down the rabbit hole. Join her as she meets Curiouser and Curiouser characters in her bi-coastal (Lake Michigan and Lake Ontario) adventure. Along the way, she helps her husband with an employment issue, and helps her new friend out of a jam.

Maria Hart is hot on the trail of a group of shoplifters who set fires to cover their tracks. Next, she solves the mystery of the Body in the Library in Alabama.

Chalk Dust and Chalk Outlines is a Maria Hart Mystery in two parts. Join Maria for some humor, coffee and lunch as she solves a pair of murders. In part one, The Fatal Faculty Meeting, Dan Hart is awaked during a faculty meeting by the thud of the guest speaker falling dead on the floor. Maria gets involved in the case and along the way solves the case of a black widow who killed her husband on their honeymoon. In part two, The CEO is DOA, Maria is called in to investigate the mysterious death of the companies CEO. Her investigation reveals some interesting implications into the financial...

Ian Porthos Wallace, that kilt wearing food photographer and mystery writer from Port City, North Carolina, has been asked by his friend Demos to help out a mutual friend who has been wrongly accused of murder. Along the way he reconnects with Athena, his on again, off again girlfriend. Join Ian for some mystery, romance, suspense, humor and good eating as he tries to solve a mystery and uncomplicate his love life.

Ian Porthos Wallace, that kilt wearing food writer and photographer from Port City, is involved in another murder mystery when he trips over a body on the beach while on his morning walk. When he looks close he realizes it is the body of Brenda Dexter, his neighbor. Ian helps his friend Detective Jim Halstead solve the murder by looking into Brenda's past and by interviewing his quirky neighbors. There is the stripper, the two old ladies who order products from infomercials and the guy who sits on his porch all day in his bathrobe smoking cigarettes and drinking beer. Join Ian for some...