Judy: 2015 books

Susan Hogan thinks she's about to meet her maker when she confronts a rifle-carrying man, who looks like a pig, in a grocery store. Jake investigates the body of a young college student, shot in the back and found in an empty pasture. Aunt Jenny showers love on the new puppy a young man from the grocery...

“My darling Edith…” Averil read the impassioned words in disbelief and astonishment. A love letter, here among her spinster aunt's possessions? What could it mean? When Averil Matthews arrives to sort out her deceased aunt's estate, she expects to find a neat bundle of papers in...

Stella Crown rarely takes a break from managing her Pennsylvania dairy farm unless it’s to take a spin on her Harley, but in the midst of the Christmas season she treats herself to a new tattoo. Halfway through the sitting at Wolf Ink, her tattoo artist and his wife, Mandy, disappear into the back...

Stella works as an agony aunt for a teenage magazine. She lives on Pansy Island, a self-consciously arty community on the Thames, where her husband Adrian writes erotic novels in a summerhouse by the river, while her two teenage children prepare themselves for adult life in various ways not necessarily...

These stories were published between 2015 and 2017. They are police procedural crime novels, set in the university city of Oxford. Bernie Fazakerley, an eccentric Oxford don with a penchant for marrying police officers, has a habit of becoming involved in murder cases, which often turn out to have...

Merriam Press Fiction Number 5. First eBook Edition 2016. The third story in the Wind Series finds Megan stirred by the mystery of two strangers and the unsolved murders of two local women from decades past. Pregnant yet haunted, Megan summons the help of close family and friends then plunges into...

Sandy came to us through the foster system, speaking in grunts and gestures and pulling out chunks of her own hair in tantrums. As our time with her was extended, she started to calm down--at least a little. Despite her difficulties, my husband and I and our two young children had come to love her earnest...

Every July, the lucky owners of Cornish holiday homes set off for their annual break. They close up their desirable semis in smartish London suburbs - having turned off the Aga and turned on the burglar alarm - and look forward to a carefree, restful, somehow more fulfilling summer. Clare is...

The web they weave leads to murder… When Len Sorani hired a hitman, he didn't know there were hidden charges, such as lifetime payments in exchange for silence. He also didn't know the payments were due even if the hitman hadn't done what he'd been hired to do: kill his wife. Follow...

A glimpse of the past… When several of the R*U*1*2s take a carnival ride in a time machine, they are surprised by a malfunction that leaves them stranded in distant lands and distant pasts. Follow the harrowing journey through time and space, and the unexpected challenges the R*U*1*2s...

Well, it's not exactly mind reading but Lilly Gunter has her own set of talents. She is capable of reading lips—in several different languages. Having been recruited by the CIA to assist in uncovering a sinister plot to overthrow the government, she becomes embroiled in more than she bargained for....

When Dr. Monty Rudland is mistakenly identified from a business ad in the newspaper as the perpetrator of a burglary/robbery, his world tilts. The ensuing trial hinges on the eyewitness testimony of the victim. Will Monty be convicted on the say-so of a socialite and pillar of the community?

HOT SUMMER A hot-tempered spitfire and a sexy, arrogant man - put them together and sparks fly! After her first embarrassing encounter Summer Jones vows to stay away from suave record producer, Lance Munroe. But then she ends up working for the man. Her quick temper and sharp tongue...

It's never a good thing when an alien utters that fateful exclamation, "Oops!" A humorous tale of the end of things. And strawberries. Bonus short story included: The Emergence, a story of a sentient ship who will do anything to protect her beloved captain. Even if it means working with...