Nancy Sweetland: 8 books

Effie Casper's unexpected retirement from the only job she'd ever held gives her the chance to do what she'd always dreamed of: compete in a golf tournament. Tall, spare and 66, with a bag carrying only three beat-up clubs, Effie's unorthodox shots learned from playing in, through,...

Amateur artist Bolton’s life hasn’t turned out the way he’d thought - especially regarding his unhappy marriage to obese Kitty Lu. When he purchases an old box of artist’s supplies at auction, he discovers that one brush holds the power to paint death. Is it possible? Could he tame that power...

Portly, middle-aged Herbert Hendorf’s rotund wife Agnes goes Total Woman, setting up sensual and exciting (she thinks) but outlandish (and exhausting, he thinks) sexual encounters at every opportunity. He retreats into daydreams and invents a recycling machine which he hopes will win the Fantastic...

THE SPA MURDERSThe CEO of a large corporation is smothered in an herbal wrap in the luxurious company Spa. A second executive is murdered in a steam room. A third is attacked in the sauna and left for dead.Detectives Bricker and LaCount investigate a host of suspects: the CEO's...

Channeling the Virgin Mary, a middle-aged rejected novitiate crosses the country from Oregon to Pennsylvania to complete a nine-month novena of double murders in Love Nests, International!, believing the novena will cleanse the world of sexual sinning. She leaves a small statue of the Madonna at each...

This tale is a new take on the old story of how the grass always seems greener on the other side of the fence. Exploring a world full of beautiful, fanciful, and sometimes downright comical possibilities, If I Could easily puts an audience in other worlds with the skillful use of rhythm and rhyme. But...

This is the Spanish only version of If I Could.

This is the bilingual (English/Spanish) version of If I Could. There is also a vocabulary page at the end of the book.This tale is a new take on the old story of how the grass always seems greener on the other side of the fence. Exploring a world full of beautiful, fanciful, and sometimes downright comical...