Carolyn J Rose: 25 books

1966. As summer ends in Maplekill, New York, the dreams of 19-year-old Liz Roark turn to dust. A girl known only as April arrives carrying a duffel bag of bright clothing and an engagement ring from Liz's childhood sweetheart Ben Hoyt, a Marine missing in action in Vietnam.   Grieving for Ben...

A rural noir mystery set in New York's Catskill Mountains. (Sequel to HEMLOCK LAKE and THROUGH A YELLOW WOOD) The Catskill Mountains are rich in folklore, legends, and tales of the supernatural. Once guided by ghosts, Dan Stone doesn’t disbelieve what can’t be explained. And there’s...

When her grandmother dies, Rain Paxton inherits an extraordinary gift—the ability to follow a phantom dog into the afterlife, to a place called Nightfall Bay. There, at the edge of a dark sea, the souls of the missing and murdered must wait for earthly mysteries to be solved. Pierce Jennings...

The chaos rolls on in Reckless River, Washington. A marijuana shop opens, Iz becomes a bodyguard, Aston Marsden moves to a cave, Jake launches a radio talk show, the truth about Dario is revealed, and entitled mutt Cheese Puff runs amok in a casino. But before all that weirdness erupts, relentless...

Book 10 in the Subbing isn’t for Sissies Series Does Cheese Puff have what it takes to detect a ghost? Will an intervention halt Sybil’s gambling before she turns to loan sharks? Will Allison live through an unlicensed night behind the wheel? Will the senior class survive...

Book 11 in the Subbing isn’t for Sissies Series When her colleagues take to the picket line, substitute teacher Barbara Reed joins the march. But solidarity gives way to suspicion when a school board member disappears. Did one of her friends kidnap the most vocal opponent of a pay...

Mystery authors Carolyn J. Rose and Mike Nettleton serve up 32 short stories featuring detectives, killers, ghosts, radio deejays, thwarted authors, bungling criminals, Harry Houdini, Santa Claus, insurance salesmen, young lovers, talking vegetables, mistaken assumptions, and paranoid conclusions.

Portland, Oregon, 1997 Back in the 60s he tuned in, turned on, and dropped out into a life without deadlines or documentation. But now the aging flower child known as Paladin has run up against reality. High-tech thugs with guns want a package he didn’t deliver, cops like him for...

THE RHYTHM OF UNDERGROUND EVIL THREATENS TO UNLEASH HAVOC ON THE WORLD ABOVE THE SURFACE!!! After running away from home, sixteen-year-old Noah Keene and his thirteen-year-old sister are swept into the turmoil of a universe they never imagined—inside Humbug Mountain on the Oregon Coast....

Rock and Roll Reunions Can Be Murder! Portland's Tie-dyed Detective Cracks Another Case. (The sequel to THE HARD KARMA SHUFFLE)         When The Velvet Miasma self-destructed on stage in the mid seventies, band members vowed they'd never perform...

"It was not always easy to be the guru’s wife," writes Diana Mukpo. "But I must say, it was rarely boring." At the age of sixteen, Diana Mukpo left school and broke with her upper-class English family to marry Chögyam Trungpa, a young Tibetan lama who would go on to become a...