Book #1 Murder at Redwood Cove: Bed, breakfast…and a body!
If it weren’t for the fact that she’s replacing a dead man, Kelly Jackson would love her new job managing the Redwood Cove Bed and Breakfast on the coast of Northern California. But Bob Phillips did plunge off the cliff to his death…and Kelly’s starting to think it may not have been an accident. Bob’s retired friends—The “Silver Sentinels”—are also on the case, especially when Kelly is attacked…and another body turns up. Kelly has her hands full with overseeing the B&B’s annual Taste of Chocolate and Wine Festival, but she’s also closing in on the killer…who’s ready to send Kelly on her own permanent vacation…
Kelly Jackson, executive administrator for Resorts International, flies from Wyoming to Mendocino County in California to take over Redwood Cove Bed-and-Breakfast. The manager has had what appears to be an accidental fatal fall from a seaside cliff. It’s a straightforward assignment until a crime-solving group of senior citizens, the Silver Sentinels, cries murder.
When Kelly begins to get up to speed with what’s happening at the inn, including the chocolate and wine festival soon to take place, she discovers papers written by the deceased manager in a language she doesn’t understand. They are addressed to the Sentinels so she turns them over to the group. They decipher the coded messages and find a motive for murder. Worried a killer is loose in the small town, Kelly agrees to help the Sentinels investigate.
Soon after Kelly and the Sentinels begin to ask questions, Kelly is attacked in the dead manager’s office. Then an e-mail lures young Tommy Sanders and his basset hound, Fred, out on a stormy night where the boy’s life is threatened. The number of crimes continue to mount—ending in homicide. Kelly knows she must help the Sentinels solve the mystery before there’s another victim.
Book #2 Murder at the Mansion
Kelly Jackson returns to California to manage Redwood Cove Bed and Breakfast. While the inn is being renovated, she is assigned the task of inventorying a historic collection of objects from the 1800s housed at nearby Redwood Heights and to assist at the mansion during the Whale Frolic Festival. She’s also asked to learn what she can about the disappearance of some jewelry from visitors’ rooms.
Shortly after she arrives, Kelly finds a guest stabbed in one of the rooms, the door and windows locked from the inside. Then Gertrude “Gertie” Plumber, a member of the Silver Sentinels, a crime-solving group of senior citizens, is attacked. The police question Gertie’s son, Stevie, who is working at the mansion with his bed-bug and termite-sniffing team of beagles, Jack and Jill, about the jewelry thefts as well as the murder. Kelly and the Silver Sentinels must work together to solve the crimes before another life is lost and Stevie is put in prison.
Book #3 Murder at the Fortune Teller’s Table
When a local woman begins searching for a couple she hasn’t seen since the 1960s, Redwood Cove Bed and Breakfast manager Kelly Jackson and the crime-solving group, the “Silver Sentinels,” are quick to help out. They’re also quick to guess that they’re in over their heads after the woman is found dead beside the body of a Greek fortune teller—and a fellow Sentinel gets attacked. As Kelly juggles work and her responsibilities at a food and wine festival in town, she and her sleuthing posse must confront a killer obsessed with old secrets . . . and solve a murder mystery more than fifty years in the making . . .
Book #4 Murder at the Mushroom Festival
There’s a corpse among the chanterelles!
Redwood Cove Bed and Breakfast manager Kelly Jackson is hosting a cooking class during the Week of the Mushroom festival to attract guests, not drama. But soon after she finishes foraging for an edible mushroom species on sacred Native American land, a local newspaper reporter gets shot dead at the same site. With suspicions spreading like fungi in the quaint Northern Californian community over the culprit’s identity, Kelly and a savvy gang of sleuthing seniors known as the “Silver Sentinels” must uncover the truth about the secluded property before a tricky killer prepares another lethal surprise . . .
Book #5 Murder at the Marina
She’s got to solve this—or her friends are sunk . . .
Kelly Jackson, manager of the Redwood Cove Bed and Breakfast, is fond of the Doblinsky brothers, Ivan and Rudy, members of the Silver Sentinels, a crew of crime-solving senior citizens in their Northern California seaside hamlet. After she discovers a jewel-encrusted dagger—with what appears to be dried blood on the blade—on their fishing boat, they share their family history with Kelly, and she learns that the knife may be part of a set from their long-ago childhood in Russia. Its sudden reappearance is eerie, but the mystery grows much more serious when a body is found on the boat. The victim was a member of the community and part of the Russian Heritage Festival, and some of the organizers were clearly harboring some bitterness. But the story behind this murder seems as layered as a nesting doll—and Kelly’s feeling completely at sea.
Book #6 Murder in the Wine Country
Murder in the Wine Country
Kelly Jackson, manager of the Redwood Cove Bed and Breakfast, is excited to participate in an event to raise awareness for the plight of struggling veterans in the Northern California coastal community. Local wineries are sponsoring tastings, and to prepare for a culinary competition, professional chefs will forage for wild edible greens. Kelly plans to go along, despite a warning to beware of poachers who have been stealing the highly valued succulent Dudleya farinose from the coastal cliffs.
When a consultant for the sale of a local winery is murdered, the poachers are suspected – but so is a wine merchant, Kelly’s friend Phil Xanthis. Kelly joins forces with a group of senior sleuths who call themselves the Silver Sentinels. As Kelly and the Silver Sentinels attempt to root out the real killer, what she digs up might just put her permanently underground.