Emily Wilson by B.J. Bowen

I’m Emily Wilson, second flute of Colorado’s Monroe Symphony. The symphony is usually my safe place. But a really obnoxious Board member, Curtis Strange, was murdered at the annual Fourth of July concert. The fiery festivities—including the noise of cannons, liberty...

Digger Sharma by Billie Trager

Dang! Were those gunshots? Oh, hello, didn’t see you there. Guess I should introduce myself. Digger Sharma, half-Indian, half-Irish sleuth and amateur private eye. Like to think of myself as a wisecracking gumshoe, a slumming angel in the City of Angels. Yup, L.A. is...

Imogene Duckworthy by Kaye George

You know, I don’t think I can give you my typical day. They’re all so different. Such is the life of a detective. A private eye. Okay, a person detecting and trying to become a private eye. Imogene Duckworthy, Private Investigator. That sounds so nice. I’ve been...

Zoe Barlow by Betty Webb

Zoe Loves Paris My name is Zoe Barlow and as of December, 1922, I’ve been living in Paris for four years. And while I’m not a detective—or a killer—I’ve somehow wound up in the middle of a multiple-murder case. It all began when my friend Hadley Hemingway asked me to...

Fran Stein by E.J. Copperman

Okay, first of all, everything you’ve heard about me is false. I’m not a robot. I don’t have two bolts sticking out of my neck. I don’t walk with my arms out in front of me as if I thought I was Superman but forgot to jump up in the air. I’m not made from the corpses...

Detective Thompson by Karen A. Phillips

Detective Thompson here with the El Dorado County Sheriff’s Department, California. I’ve been asked to talk about my role in the mystery novel, A Deadly Combo. When I got the call about a possible homicide at the Golden Hills Winery trailerfest event, old emotions...