Jo Carson: 12 books

“Haunting and funny, full of folk wisdom and unfl inching honesty.”—Publishers Weekly, on the work of Jo Carson “She is a quintessential community artist with a true ear for the way people talk and what they really mean to say. Her work has inspired innumerable young artists to take...

“I’ve spent about 15 years plus some working with people’s stories in a series of communities in this country. I write plays from oral histories for those communities. Just finished my 30th. I’m watching people’s lives and communities literally change, sometimes drastically, for the work....

Fifty-four monologues and dialogues, a remarkable distillation of rhythms and nuances from the region of the heart.

Jilted by her fiancé, librarian Maddy Jacobson is nursing a broken heart, when her best friend gives her an early Christmas present. Intended to be a fun, psychic reading in a spooky, tea house, the gift turns out to be life-changing. Maddy becomes haunted by a mischievous, Highland ghost. Ruggedly...

As the janitor in a haunted house, Abby Jenkins has many contacts with the living and the dead in the small Pacific Northwest town of Sunset Cove, which puts her in a perfect position to solve local mysteries. Or so she thinks. Hired to find diamonds hidden in a haunted manor she gets help from a...

Death by Séance (A Ghost & Abby Mystery, Book 3) Love, Lies & Lust to Die For Single Mom Abby Jenkins hunts for a murderer in Sunset Cove, the small Pacific Northwest town famous for all things that go bump in the night. Abby is the night janitor in the haunted teahouse and only private...

Single mom Abigail Jenkins takes the only job left in town: night janitor int he haunted teahouse. She figrues this won't be a problem because ghost don't exist. A lighthearted novella filled with love, laughter and just enough ghoulishness to thrill and chill you to the bone.

Escaping the clutches of a mobster, art forger Harley Davis dives off a yacht in the middle of the night and swims ashore to Sunset Cove, a small town in the Pacific Northwest, where the only light she sees comes from inside a haunted teahouse. Soaking weat and shaking, she pauses at the door. No...

How could a dead guy be so sexy? When Charlene Walker, a tattoo artist with a sweet tooth for bad boys, starts a boycott of the haunted teahouse in a small, west coast town, no one alive or dead is safe. One way or another, she intends to stop the haunting of her brother. Biker ghost, Rufus has no...

I Messed up Christmas A Ghost & Abby Mystery Novella ~magical mayhem for the holidays~ Single mom Abby Jenkins runs a detective agency out of a haunted teahouse in the Pacific Northwest town of Sunset Cove, and while she finds tackling the usual supernatural suspects easy, she can’t face...

When the cards are stacked against you, run. Who would be crazy enough to send death cards to people in Sunset Cove, a small, Pacific Northwest town famous for things that goes bump in the night? Single mom, Abby Jenkins is hired to find the culprit, and while she is a witch and private detective,...

Advising in Language Learning (ALL) brings together examples of advising practice and research from various international contexts in a fast-developing field. A theoretical model based on constructivism and sociocultural theory (the “Dialogue, Tools and Context Model”) is proposed and supported...