Jane Isenberg: 8 books

Miranda Breitner thinks her past is behind her when she opens the B&B that is meant to be the start of her new life, but murder and her long-ago secret threaten everything--including her life! Murder in the Melting Pot is a riveting tale from WILLA Award Winner Jane Isenberg

Four of mystery's reigning matriarchs have joined together to concoct a delectable stew of clues, corpses, and felonious hijinks -- all spectacularly seasoned with a mother's loving touch! In this witty and winning quartet of all-new mysteries, the incomparable Mary Daheim gives harried mom Cousin...

Winner of the WILLA Literary Award - In 1890, Aliza Rudinsk, a young Orthodox Jewish immigrant from the Ukraine, came to Seattle via New York's Lower East Side expecting to build a good life for herself. When Aliza's bones turn up in Seattle's underground streets in 1965 along with a book...

What's a midlife community college prof like Bel Barrett doing in the notorious New Jersey Meadowlands? Leading members of the Urban Kayaking Club as they observe flora and fauna native to the infamous swamp. But before you can say "Jimmy Hoffa," the battered corpse of one of the kayakers...

Can fifty-something English prof Bel Barrett track down the killer of River Edge Community College President Dr. Altagracia Garcia while having hot flashes and senior moments? Bel needs to clear the bad boy culinary arts major accused of icing the president instead of the cake before the real perpetrator...

It's murder having a midlife spiritual identity crisis, especially when you're Jewish fifty-something community college English Prof Bel Barrett. Bel has barely begun to prepare for her adult bat mitzvah when former student Ashley Roberts turns up in her study group. Ashley's close dot-com colleague...

Bel Barrett's back! This time the fifty-something New Jersey community college prof is teaching writing to future funeral directors with popular local undertaker Vinny Vallone. When Vinny's found swimming with the fishes in the Hudson River, Bel suspects a stalker who strikes back. In a flash, Bel's...

While Professor Bel Barrett and her live-in lover Sol Hecht are strolling along Hoboken's Sinatra Drive, they literally stumble upon the body of a dead ringer for the famous but now dead singer and native son. Someone has slain an Ol' Blue Eyes impersonator, and Bel is drafted by one of the suspects...