Marla Vail by Nancy J. Cohen

I’m Marla Vail, hairstylist and amateur sleuth. Since I got married and had a baby, I’d sworn off crime solving. But how could I resist when my mother called to say she’d found a dead body in her shower? Oy vey! She and my stepdad are in the midst of a bathroom...

Hazel Wickbury by Sarah E. Burr

Hi, everyone! Hazel Wickbury, here. Without fail, my day always begins with a beautiful view of Lake Glenmyre. Named after my ancestor, Jedidiah Glenmyre, one of the founders of my hometown Crucible, New York, the lake’s crystalline waters greet me outside my...

John Silver by Cathy Ace

Hello there, pleased to meet you. The name’s John Silver and. . .ha, ha, I haven’t heard that one before. I am, indeed, quite tall. . .so, yes, you might think of me as “Long John Silver”. Very amusing. Anyway, welcome to my home here in Pimlico, on the delightful...

Auntie Akamai by Rosalie Spielman

Aloha! I’m Auntie Akamai from Aloha Lagoon. I live with my sweetums, Paulie, my African Grey parrot, in a cute little bungalow by the sea. So, you want to know about my day? Well, I get up before the sun to make sandwiches for the excursions for my brother’s dive...

Inspector Michael Corravan by Karen Odden

That rainy morning in March of 1878, as I climbed out of a hansom cab near the stone arch that opens onto Scotland Yard, a passerby spat at me. “Liars and cheats, all o’ ye,” he hissed. “Better off at the bottom of the bloody Thames.” I bit the inside of my cheek to...

Angela Vecchio by Allison Brook

Hello, there! So nice to meet you. If I come across as agitated it’s ’cause I am. I am super anxious because my wedding is in two weeks. I’m not worried about being married. I love Steve and he loves me. I’ve been looking forward to my wedding...