By Appointment Only

By Appointment Only marks the thrilling return of Grace, Sam, Maria-Teresa, and Margot—the fearless, wacky sleuths we’ve come to love. Thanks to Grace, the ladies can now proudly call themselves professional investigators. While three of them are content handling routine cases at the newly formed Liu Jones Group Investigations Agency, Grace Liu craves more to fuel her adrenaline.

Grace’s ambition leads her to pursue a high-profile murder case, one she hopes will cement the agency’s reputation as one of the best in Mesa, Arizona. But as the women soon discover, you should be careful what you wish for. They’re hired by an unusual client to solve the murder of local celebrity author Ainsley Chao.

The case pulls the team into a labyrinth of psychological and emotional motives behind Chao’s death. At the same time, Grace privately wrestles with unanswered questions about the reported death of Rhys, her long-time black ops handler and former lover.

Amid the twists, turns, and shocking revelations of the Chao murder, the women face personal growth, forge deeper bonds, and experience heart-pounding excitement that will keep you on the edge of your seat. This second installment masterfully continues the series’ signature blend of intricate mysteries, engaging character narratives, and unwavering honesty.

Ozark Justice

The year is 1938, and it’s a beautiful Indian summer day in the Ozark Mountains. Yarnell Cates, his wife Thelma, and his father are returning home with a wagonload of stove wood when they discover the sheriff’s car in their front yard. Sheriff J. D. Hawkins is there to arrest Yarnell on trumped-up charges concocted by the prosecuting attorney and his brother, the circuit judge. The charge is part of an ongoing feud between their families and the Cates. In a twist of fate, Yarnell is forced to kill the sheriff in self-defense. This act incites the prosecuting attorney to form a posse with orders to burn down the Cates’ home, slaughter their livestock, and shoot Yarnell on sight. A bounty of five hundred dollars is placed on Yarnell’s head, later increased to fifteen hundred dollars, driving Yarnell and Thelma to seek refuge in a cave in the mountains. Throughout the winter, they endure harsh conditions while evading the men of Sycamore County in a desperate bid for survival.

Crazy from the Heat

What makes Dave Barry funny? Stephen King scary? Tami Hoag heartbreaking? All readily admit that where they live greatly influences what they write. Indeed, for both writers and readers, geography may well be destiny when it comes to fiction. Novelists often borrow from their surroundings, consciously or subconsciously, to create their imaginative worlds, just as we readers are drawn to those works that transport us to more exciting and inspiring locales, be it Hemingway’s Havana, Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha County or McMurtry’s Lonesome Dove.

Claudette Monet in America

This novel by widely published author, London Fell, centers on Claudette Monet, a pseudonym of Claude Monet, the famous French painter who never came to America. Her travels will take you through France to America in search of her long-lost father. There, she experiences many memorable adventures such to interest general readers, art lovers, and those searching for history and historical romance, as well as those who are, like her, in search of themselves.

The Mijas Murderer

Michael Turner is a successful crime writer and part time police consultant, who lives in the Algarve with his wife Samantha, an ex-police surgeon who now runs her own private medical practice. After their previous successes with the ‘Mijas Murderer’ and the elusive ‘Faro Forger’, they now work regularly with Interpol, and when Sam is informed by the Salzburg police that her ex flat mate has sadly committed suicide, Sam refuses to believe it, and she and Michael set out to prove it has to be murder. Sam is of course correct, and the hunt for the murderer begins. Their enquiries take them to Austria, the UK, Malta, Poland, Rome, San Juan in Puerto Rico and numerous other locations. Working closely with their Interpol colleagues, the Metropolitan police in London and the Salzburg police, they run into one blind alley after another in trying to trace and arrest the murderer who seems to be able to change their appearance at will.

The Burden of Truth

Every family has secrets. Some never come to light. For if they did, they would have devastating consequences. When long-held family secrets are uncovered by Tori Daniels, she realizes this. They are not her secrets to tell. That is the burden of truth.

Raven

In mid-1943, at the behest of their Japanese allies, the Germans send their best agent, Johann Schmidt, code name “RAVEN”, to sabotage the U.S. Navy’s torpedo factory in Newport, Rhode Island. Cunning, intelligent, resourceful, and utterly ruthless, Schmidt arrives off the Rhode Island coast by German U-boat, seemingly undetected. The agent then succeeds in getting on to the Newport Navy Base and finds employment there. This aids Schmidt in discovering the location of the Navy’s bulk explosives storage site: Rose Island, located in the middle of the Eastern Passage of Narragansett Bay, one mile west of Newport. However, through cooperation between the British Intelligence Service MI6 and the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and aided by a stroke of luck, RAVEN’s arrival is discovered. The FBI assigns one of their best counterespionage agents, Brian Weeple, to track down and capture and/or eliminate the saboteur. But Schmidt is not who everyone assumes him to be, significantly complicating the search. Will Schmidt’s secret identity be discovered, and can RAVEN be caught and stopped before the assignment is carried out?

Random Acts of Violence

Gregory knew he was different from a very early age. They say that experiencing certain factors, while growing up, can affect us in a positive or negative way. Was this the case in Gregory’s situation? He learned to control his rage and anger; however, sometimes good intentions are met with random acts of violence. Does anyone really know what they are truly capable of? Follow Gregory on his journey and find out.

New York Blast Off

This second novel of the trilogy centers around a set of turns in Mid-Western Iowa, along the Mississippi River. There, in multiple picturesque settings, enters Claudette Monet in search of inspiration for her paintings. She is already well known to readers from our first novel in the trilogy, Claudette Monet in America. In New York Blast Off she encounters some troubling circumstances that are highly dramatic. From the East Coast, she ventures across the Midwest to California for artistic inspiration. After all this, the scene shifts to NYC.

Marked

Take a journey with the unlikeliest of characters as they band together to search for a missing teenager. Learn how a Native American, a New Jersey mafia capo, and an FBI agent come together and try to find the missing teenager, who also has ties to the mafia capo and FBI agent. The ensuing search will take you to the most questionable of places and characters that lead this story to a dramatic and brutal ending!

Love in Sayre Valley

When fate draws two musicians from opposite ends of the music spectrum together in West Virginia and both look to own the same stunning piece of real estate, sparks inevitably fly. Courtney Meadows, lead violinist with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, inherits her ancient family homestead called ‘The Meadows’ in Sayre Valley, West Virginia, and decides to flee her boring life and move to the property abandoned for decades. At the same time, Rob Wilson, frontman for the underground grunge band ‘Treetop Rant’ settles on West Virginia as his escape destination from an anything-but-boring life in the rock music world and becomes obsessed with buying the property. Simply establishing ownership and developing the property proves to be difficult for whoever wins the battle. They face obstacles and hurdles that range from locating the various wills, deeds and other legal instruments relating to the land; to surveying and environmental testing; to rebuilding a washed-out access bridge and infrastructure for such basic services as roads, water, sewage, and power. Not to mention, there is also an armed hillbilly claiming squatter’s rights. Although the mutual attraction is undeniable from their first brief meeting, the same fate that keeps throwing them together physically seems determined to keep them from connecting romantically. Can a grunge rock star from the East Coast and an ultra-conservative classical symphony violinist from the Midwest overcome their many philosophical, cultural, and musical differences and find love?

Island Romance

Samantha Stamp loves her work, but she is also fond of the sun, feeling warmth on her blonde hair and watching the beaches with her sky-blue eyes. She dreams of traveling and yearns to experience what the world has to offer. Richard Blackwell is the wealthy CEO of Trans-World Insurance Company, but he wasn’t always wealthy. He was given away as a child and, growing up poor, he worked hard to achieve the things he wanted in life. Now he is calm, collected, and has his life put together. He thinks his life is finally complete after meeting Ash. They marry in Aruba and start their new life but their relationship takes a turn for the worse, leading to a divorce that never takes place because Ash’s dead body is discovered, shot into five times. Her death forces Samantha to travel to Aruba and find the truth about her sister’s death. It all happens in a single instance, all at once, hidden in plain sight. Now the police are after Richard as he fights to prove his innocence, meanwhile Samantha seeks justice. Two people are brought together to uncover a past they do not understand: of a wife he barely met and a sister she never knew.