A matriarch murdered in her bedroom.

Four wholesome nieces and nephews sat in the living room.

Seventeen million dollars at stake.

Which one did it?

At the age of ninety-eight, Aunt Gret was murdered.

No one had expected her to live that long—especially not her niece, Lyric Adler.

Just hearing her aunt’s name summoned the torturous secrets her aunt made her promise to keep forty-seven years ago.

“Never tell a soul until after I’m dead,” her aunt had said.

At the viewing, Lyric stood before her aunt’s casket and said, “I kept the secrets, but now it’s time to tell.”

She wonders if anyone will care that keeping the secrets made her life a nightmare of mental and emotional suffering.

Nevertheless, she is determined to break free from the binds of the secrets even though it will devastate one of her cousins.

Hiring her friend, fellow investment club member, Vett Brayborn, a private detective, Lyric is unwavering in her desire to find the murderer of her aunt and the reason behind it.

Could it have something to do with the promise she made so many years ago?

Vett finds the murderer, and with her help and other investment club members fortifying Lyric with strength, Lyric tells the shocking secrets and is no longer only a victim.

She is a survivor.

Could you murder your girlfriend and wife and keep on functioning?

The sunrise catcher’s friends believed he could.

Did he?

Vett’s love of solving murder cases among the rich and famous leads her to South Carolina, a state she is not licensed to investigate in.

And there is no private investigator reciprocity agreement between her home state, Virginia, and South Carolina.

Circumventing the law by offering her service on a volunteer basis, Vett agrees to find the murderer of the sunrise catcher’s wife.

To make Vett’s job more challenging, an unscrupulous newspaper journalist learns she is a renowned private detective from Virginia working in a non-reciprocity state.

He blackmails her by threatening to notify the two states’ licensing boards of her investigation.

Vett grapples with how to handle this snake in the grass.

And she knows if she can’t discover evidence to find the sunrise catcher innocent, the overzealous police will arrest him and do everything in their power to have him convicted.

A captivating fifty-year-old adulterous affair ensnares a man and his family into a twisted labyrinth of secrets, deceit, betrayal, murder, and vigilante justice.

All these years later, the repercussions of the affair come to a head with his murder.

Who did it?

Sultry combines a murder mystery, adultery, family bond, and paranormality into an intricate and explosive story.

Well-to-do landowner, Gideon Fitzgerald, had an adulterous affair over fifty years ago.

All these years later, the repercussions from the affair come to a head with his murder.

His granddaughter, Dillyn Fitzgerald, a chief of financial investment operations by day and amateur sleuth by night, vows to find the murderer.

A tangled maze of secrets slowly reveals itself during her investigation.

Dr. Sandra Tanner has fashioned a relatable and thought-provoking murder mystery.

When Brightness Tours’ bus driver, Duffy Radley, fails to return to the bus after a rest stop at the Jefferson Springtop rest area on Interstate 81, the passengers are sequestered on the bus until he is found.

The state police are called, and a massive hunt around the rest area ensues.

He is located inside the locked maintenance room, murdered, and shot seven times in the chest.

How did he get there?

And why was he shot seven times; what’s the significance?

Unlicensed private detective Vett Brayborn is one of the passengers.

The next day, she is contacted by the president of Brightness Tours, Jackson Stevens, and hired to find Duffy’s murderer before the police do.

Why the rush?

What is Brightness Tours hiding?

Jackson tells Vett that the quicker she can get a handle on the murder and bring it to a conclusion, the faster he can quell any mitigating damage to the company.

Though Vett distrusts Jackson’s “mitigating damage to the company” reason for the rush to find Duffy’s murderer before the police, she plunges full speed ahead.

She uncovers the powerful driving force behind Duffy’s execution-style murder and a long-ago secret behind the Lacecap Hydrangea Murders.

This secret was waiting to be told.

What’s amateur detective Vett Brayborn to do when her Aunt Mary’s multi-millionaire boyfriend, Hollice, is strangled to death, and two weeks later, her aunt is murdered in her home, and all clues to the shocking murders lead to “six good blended adult family members?”

She sucks it up, moves forward, probes into their lives, and finds a mystery pulling at all of them like gravity.

Six Good Ones is an audacious murder mystery set in Danville and Halifax County, Virginia, where the love of money proved to be the root cause of the murders.

When Vett comes close to discovering the murderer, she uncovers a shameful charade and a dark secret Hollice never wanted told—a secret that alters the lives of the six good ones.

A soul-searching page-turner, amateur detective Vett Brayborn’s gripping and propulsive hunt to solve the 29-year-old case of a kidnapped five-year-old girl leaves no stones unturned and will leave you spellbound.

The year is 2005.

The setting is Pittsylvania County, Virginia.

Stolen Four Minutes tells the gripping story of the discovery of what happened to five year-old Semmy Barrels after she was abducted twenty-nine years ago.

Semmy’s mother, Teasy, not knowing the whereabouts of her daughter suffers grievous pain year after year.

She finally collapses into a coma and communicates telepathically to her twin sister, Mia, that the only way she will come out of the coma is by hearing of Semmy’s whereabouts.

If she doesn’t hear in thirteen days, she will succumb to death.

To prevent her sister from surrendering to death, Mia hires amateur investigator Vett Brayborn to find Semmy within the thirteen day window.

Vett is hindered by many obstacles and her investigation leads into an almost deadly confrontation with the criminal, but she perseveres finding truth.

This tragedy will cause your soul to weep.

When cut-up human remains with a smashed in skull, buried for forty-nine years, are discovered on Great Aunt Hannah’s farm after her death, Vett Brayborn, Great Aunt Hannah’s most trusted niece and executor of her estate, works as an amateur investigator to solve the murder mystery.

But there’s one catch to solving the mystery: No one appears to be missing.

From the moment Vett begins her pursuit, challenges mound.

First, vicious gossip begin circulating accusing Great Aunt Hannah (school teacher, community activist, and philanthropist) of the murder, tainting the beliefs of some of Great Aunt Hannah’s supporters.

Then Vett is unable to locate Great Aunt Hannah’s longtime boyfriend who may have helpful information.

Unexpected, she uncovers a betrayal committed by Great Aunt Hannah on a family member that breaks her spirit; this betrayal is a secret Great Aunt Hannah never wanted known. And the biggest challenge of all, she falls in love with Lt. Ellison, the sheriff investigator assigned to the case and struggles with her desire to keep from him the discoveries and headways she makes.

Come hell or high water, Vett is determined to solve the mystery to prevent her aunt’s name and character from being forever tarnished and to prevent a murderer from escaping justice.

Salmer Tawgg (Merrie) had an awakening that it was time to reveal her dreaded secrets about her sons’ fathers.

She was murdered before she had the opportunity to do so. Her niece uncovers her secrets and the identity of the murderer.

Was the murderer one of the fathers?

Merrie committed many sexual indiscretions in her younger years.

Because of this, her four older children grew up never knowing the identity of their fathers.

For reasons only known to Merrie and her best friend, Merrie kept the fathers’ identities a secret.

When the children become adults, they perform a search to find this missing link in their lives.

Through watching her children in this search, and the loss of one, Merrie learns that the most important thing in life is not the secrets she has been keeping, but the complete happiness of her children.

Merrie is murdered before she can reveal the fathers’ identities.

Arri, Merrie’s niece, tells Merrie’s story and how she was able to uncover the secrets of Salmer Tawgg.

The mysterious disappearance of recent high school graduate Livvy Whitlock
took place in the summer of 1960.

Her whereabouts were uncovered thirty years later.

Thirty-eight-year-old interior decorator Mattie Noble, who was eight years
old at the time of the disappearance and lived on the same Pittsylvania
County, Virginia, tobacco farm as Livvy, has always held the key to solving
the mystery, though she did not know it.

A broken piece of red glass, a faded cream brocade jewelry box, two
beautiful red barrettes, and a trash dumping hole were all jumbled in
Mattie’s head.

They eventually aligned, showing the truth.

Together, Mattie and Ms. Happy (Livvy’s mother) retell how the mystery of
Livvy’s disappearance was unraveled and how Sundrenched Water was at the
root of it all.