in MCM Issue #1: Private Eyes
“A Resourceful Girl”
The first Dottie Lundegaard mystery. Set in St. Paul, Minnesota in 1937, Dottie helps her brother John, a private eye, save a kidnapped girl.
Available as an eBook or in print at Amazon, Apple Books, Kobo, and Barnes & Noble.
in MCM Issue #2: Thieves
“The Fall of La Madrina”
Set in modern Texas, a girl picks a pocket for the most nefarious of reasons.
Available as an eBook or in print at Amazon, Apple Books, Kobo and Barnes & Noble.
in MCM Issue #3: The Chase Begins
“Tillie’s Big Race”
Tillie shares a name with the famous “Tillie the Terrible Swede”. She also shares an ambition with that woman from Chicago. She longs to break all the records on her bike. But her home deep in the farmlands of northwest Minnesota offers few opportunities to test her.
Then a car full of city folks blows into her town. City folks in a fancy city car, carrying very city weapons.
Their target? Her town’s bank. But when their getaway puts her grandfather in danger, Tillie and her bike ride to the rescue.
“Tillie’s Big Race”, a short story featuring gangsters, Tommy guns, and a lone young woman on a bike.
Available as an eBook or in print at Amazon, Apple Books, Kobo and Barnes & Noble.
Also available as a short story direct from me or at Amazon, Apple Books, Kobo, Barnes & Noble, Google Play, and other retailers.
Or as part of the 5-story collection BUBBLY, BICYCLES AND BRIDES available direct from me or at Amazon, Apple Books, Kobo, Barnes & Noble, Google Play, and other retailers.
in MCM Issue #4: Sins of the Father
“The Elopement”
In the 1920s, at the height of Prohibition, Sarah Eckhart holds no illusions about how her father earns his money. She knows he runs a dangerous, illegal empire.
Her wedding at their palatial summer home on the shores of White Bear Lake is the event of the summer.
But the man her father hand-picked as her groom, his chief lieutenant, turns her stomach. She only has one last chance for escape, if she dares to take it.
“The Elopement”, a short story of crime and tough choices, set during the height of Prohibition in Minnesota.
Available as an eBook or in print at Amazon, Apple Books, Kobo and Barnes & Noble.
Also available as a short story direct from me or at Amazon, Apple Books, Kobo, Barnes & Noble, Google Play, and other retailers.
Or as part of the 5-story collection BUBBLY, BICYCLES AND BRIDES available direct from me or at Amazon, Apple Books, Kobo, Barnes & Noble, Google Play, and other retailers.
in MCM Issue #5: Crime in the Countryside
“The Way the Cookie Crumbles”
Cozy mystery set in modern rural Minnesota, a quiet little girl helps her great-aunt solve a crime.
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in MCM Issue #6: Passionate Crimes
“Blood Price”
The first Ljóta and Kiallakr mystery.
Set in Norway at the time of Harald I Fairhair, Ljóta helps her husband solve a murder.
Available as an eBook or in print at Amazon, Apple Books, Kobo and Barnes & Noble.
in MCM Issue #7: Long Ago
“Long Night’s Moon”
Prohibition ended on December 5, 1933. But just because alcohol is legal doesn’t mean it’s easy to find.
Anna Olsen wants her sister to have all the best for her engagement party. And the best means champagne. Only scarcity thwarts her every attempt to find any. She knows where to find all she could ever want. But getting it? Not so easy.
George Andrews appreciates his mentor trying to find him a bride. But none of the candidates at his mentor’s New Year’s Eve party intrigue him half as much as the woman he catches sneaking around the back corridors, looking for the wine cellar. But what links her to the man like a father to him?
“Long Night’s Moon”, a short story of romance with a little crime, set in post-Prohibition Minnesota.
Available as an eBook or in print at PubShare, Amazon, Apple Books, Kobo and Barnes & Noble.
Also available as a short story direct from me or at Amazon, Apple Books, Kobo, Barnes & Noble, Google Play, and other retailers.
Or as part of the 5-story collection BUBBLY, BICYCLES AND BRIDES available direct from me or at Amazon, Apple Books, Kobo, Barnes & Noble, Google Play, and other retailers.
in MCM Issue #8: The Contract
“The Surviving Wife”
The second Dottie Lundegaard mystery. Dottie and her brother help a widow who’s about to lose everything to the second wife she never knew her husband had.
Available as an eBook or in print at PubShare, Amazon, Apple Books, Kobo and Barnes & Noble.
in MCM Issue #10: Black Widows
“The Deadly Bride”
The second Ljóta and Kiallakr mystery. Set in Norway at the time of Harald I Fairhair, Ljóta helps her husband solve a series of murders.
Available as an eBook or in print at PubShare, Amazon, Apple Books, Kobo and Barnes & Noble.
in MCM issue #11: Cozy Sidekicks
“Mjolner’s Tale”
A short story set in the world of the Viking Witch Cozy Mystery Series, a prequel told from the point of view of Mjolner, Ingrid’s cat.
Available as an eBook or in print at Amazon, Apple Books, Kobo and Barnes & Noble.
in Cold-Blooded Christmas: A Holiday Anthology as well as the Holiday Spectacular #3
“On a Cold Winter’s Night”
Winter out on the Minnesotan prairie in the 1880s tests the very souls of those who attempt to live and farm there.
Christmastime usually means a celebration of light and warmth. But for some families, Christmastime means darkness and too much togetherness.
As a blizzard rages, forcing one family to stay indoors, that togetherness pushes them all to the breaking point. How will the return of light find them?
“On a Cold Winter’s Night”, a darker kind of Christmas story.
Available as an eBook at Amazon, Apple Books, Kobo and Barnes & Noble.
Also available as a short story direct from me or at Amazon, Apple Books, Kobo, Barnes & Noble, Google Play, and other retailers.
Or as part of the 5-story collection BUBBLY, BICYCLES AND BRIDES available direct from me or at Amazon, Apple Books, Kobo, Barnes & Noble, Google Play, and other retailers.
in MCM issue #12: Cold Cases
“The White City Disappearance”
The third Dottie Lundegaard mystery. Dottie helps her brother solve the cold case their father could never crack.
Available as an eBook or in print at Amazon, Apple Books, Kobo and Barnes & Noble.
During the Great Depression, the cash prizes offered for dance competitions lured hundreds of young people to literally dance until they dropped.
Alice and Henry traveled to Fargo determined to outlast all the other couples, dancing for days without more than momentary rest breaks. Alice’s old nemesis Dorothy strives for the same goal.
But that many people killing themselves to get that much money? Guaranteed to draw cheats and con artists with their eyes on the prize too.
“Dance Til You Drop”, a story of endurance and pluck set in the Great Depression.
Available as a short story direct from me or at Amazon, Apple Books, Kobo, Barnes & Noble, Google Play, and other retailers.
Or as part of the 5-story collection BUBBLY, BICYCLES AND BRIDES available direct from me or at Amazon, Apple Books, Kobo, Barnes & Noble, Google Play, and other retailers.
In MCM Issue #14: Blood on the Tracks
“The Basque Train”
An historical story set in World War II, a woman in rural France finds herself swept up in the fighting after a chance encounter with a Maqui fighter.
Available as an eBook or in print at Amazon, Apple Books, Kobo and Barnes & Noble.