Karen Cantwell: 13 books

Film lover Barbara Marr is a typical suburban mom living the typical suburban life in her sleepy little town of Rustic Woods, Virginia. Typical, that is until she sets out to find the missing link between a bizarre monkey sighting in her yard and the bone chilling middle-of-the-night fright fest at...

Tate Kilbourn was Bunny Bergen's secret high school crush, but he had dimmed in her memory after leaving town 24 years ago. When he returns, she finds herself working alongside him in her new job as receptionist at the Rustic Woods Nature Center. Recovering financially and emotionally from a nasty...

The latest installment in the Chesapeake Crimes mystery series focuses on working stiffs--literally! Included in this collection are new tales by: Shari Randall, C. Ellett Logan, Karen Cantwell, E. B. Davis, Jill Breslau, David Autry, Harriette Sackler, Barb Goffman, Ellen Herbert, Smita Harish Jain, Leone Ciporin, Cathy Wiley, Donna Andrews, Art Taylor. Foreword by Elaine Viets.

6th book in the bestselling Barbara Marr Murder Mystery Series; Book #1, Take the Monkeys and Run is Free on Kobo. A flu epidemic seems to have wiped out the volunteer force at the Rustic Woods Nature Center. Never fear, Barbara Marr to the rescue! When Nature Center activities director, Bunny...

Ghosts. Do you Believe? Sophie Rhodes doesn't have a choice. She's surrounded by them. Desperate to pay the bills, 29-year-old Sophie ignores the advice of her stuffy spirit-friend, Marmaduke Dodsworth, and takes a job with the handsome Dr. Callahan, an optometrist with a desperate situation of his...

SPECIAL RELEASE RATE OF .99 CENTS ENDS MIDNIGHT, SEPT 1 When Howard and the girls leave town, Barb thinks she'll have some quiet, peaceful alone time. Of course, this is calamity-prone Barbara Marr. Her life doesn't know quiet or peaceful. And forget alone. With her air conditioning on the...

First four novels in the bestselling Barbara Marr Murder Mystery Series: Take the Monkeys and Run, Citizen Insane, Silenced by the Yams, and Saturday Night Cleaver. Enjoy the hilarious antics of danger-prone soccer mom, Barbara Marr from the first time she finds monkeys swinging in the trees of her...

Poor Barb. She just can't stay out of trouble, no matter how hard she tries. But this time she has a good reason: family friend Colt Baron has gone missing. When soccer mom, Barbara Marr, and her ex-FBI husband, Howard, begin following clues in a search for their treasured pal, they find themselves...

Book 2 in the Sophie Rhodes Ghostly Romance Series. Marmaduke Dodsworth is just about the most lovable British ghost you'll ever meet. But Sophie Rhodes and her new boyfriend, Cal, are becoming frustrated with his untimely appearances and intrusions. Marmaduke isn't the only force complicating...

If you think PTA meetings are boring, then you haven’t attended one in Barbara Marr’s neighborhood, where MURDER is on the agenda. Always one to stumble into trouble, Barb learns the hard way that a seemingly innocent yearbook scandal is actually part of a more sinister and deadly plot. Join soccer...

What’s more chaotic than a house with a canary, two hungry cats, and a yappy poodle with elimination issues? Answer: Barbara Marr on a murder investigation. That’s right, when Barb attends her first movie review screening, film director Kurt Baugh dies within twenty minutes of meeting her. If...

Barbara Marr is a mom, like any in the world, who just wants to make her kids happy. When youngest daughter, Amber, begs to see the great magician Bjorn! on the Fourth of July, Barb can hardly deny her. But, in Barb's world, the road to happiness is... rocky. Will Barb and Amber overcome life's hurdles...

The multifaceted work of the late Susan Leigh Star is explored through a selection of her writings and essays by friends and colleagues. Susan Leigh Star (1954–2010) was one of the most influential science studies scholars of the last several decades. In her work, Star highlighted the messy...