Kate McCracken Mysteries Series
Book One
A winery in Napa Valley. A dead gossip columnist. And dozens of possible suspects.
Photojournalist Kate McCracken has returned to her childhood home and is
tasked with discovering which potential subject of the blogger’s future exposé was responsible for her murder. Was it the slumlord, the winery faking its Estate Bottled cabernet, a civil servant skimming funds, a developer in bed with the mob, or the ex-boyfriend? And to make matters more challenging, Kate has to work alongside her former teenage heartthrob, who is now with the Sheriff’s Department.
Book Two
A bloody murder. A politician. A playboy son. And family secrets.
Investigative journalist Kate McCracken returns in Book Two of the Kate McCracken Mysteries Series. She and her former teenage heartthrob, who is now with the Sheriff’s Department, attempt to unravel who is behind the brutal stabbing of one of Napa Valley’s well-known citizens, a state senator. While the overwhelming evidence seems to point to the playboy son, Kate suspects that long-hidden family secrets will tell a different story.
Book Three
A honeymoon cruise. A hunting lodge. A bear attack...or was it murder?
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Investigative journalist Kate McCracken returns in Book Three of the Kate McCracken Mysteries Series. She and her former teenage heartthrob, now the Sheriff of Napa County, are on their honeymoon cruise to Alaska, where the young assistant to the CEO of a Las Vegas conglomerate is found dead. The suspects were all tablemates on the cruise, and Kate and Grant are drawn into helping untangle the web of conflicting motives.
Book Four
A drug lord. A voodoo doll. And a kidnapping.
Investigative journalist Kate McCracken returns in Book Four of the Kate McCracken Mysteries Series. Her good friend Ariana, the owner of Jumpin’ Java coffee shop and deli in Napa Valley, is being targeted. Her shop is broken into, her dog is poisoned, and a voodoo doll is nailed to her front door. Who is behind these threats? Someone from her former life in the drug culture of Los Angeles, or someone from her native country of Jamaica? The stakes escalate when she and Kate’s Navy SEAL brother, Ned, are targets at a wine festival, and culminate in a kidnapping.
Book Five
She was well acquainted with betrayal. First as a child in Iraq, then by her boyfriend, and now she was suspected of murder and corporate espionage.
A research lab in Napa, California, is testing formulas to combat diseases that destroy grape vines worldwide. But someone wants to steal a formula, one so valuable that murder is only collateral damage. But who? One of the lab techs? Or the Supervisor? Perhaps it is the Director of Research and Development, who is rumored to owe a local mob for his gambling debts. Kate McCracken, who will soon assume the role of editor of the local newspaper, is on the trail, along with her husband, the county Sheriff.