Zumaya Enigma imprint: 20 books

Smokey Annicelli promised Evan Bravere as his best friend lay dying he’d look after Evan’s son Ricky. It wasn’t a hardship—he was Ricky’s godfather. But years passed, and life happened, and he lost track of Ricky. Then one morning, he’s called to the scene of a brutal murder. The...

Daphne Lee-Lee is a rock-and-roll mom whose band, Bob’s Brain Freeze, has finally made it big. Back from tour, she’s glad to return to normalcy and attend the national spelling bee in Los Angeles, where her 13-year-old daughter is one of the competitors. But “normal” is over way too...

Daphne Lee-Lee is a rock-and-roll mom caught in the middle of an explosion that shakes her straitlaced hometown’s rigid foundations—and blows up the local PTA. She knows she didn’t kill the ladies she’s dubbed “Cupcakes,” but as the police’s main suspect, Daphne doesn’t have much time...

Stitching with a thread of murder. Harriet Truman's husband kept secret from her that he had a terminal genetic illness. Embittered and angry, she returns to Foggy Point, Washington, the small town where she spent some of her happier childhood years, to fill in at the long-arm quilting studio...

What happened to Amber? Loose Thread DeAnn Gault is happy her younger half-sister Molly has come home to visit Foggy Point, even after she asks Harriet Truman and the quilting group if they will make quilts as a reward for two $10,000 donors to the Carey Bates Missing and Exploited Children...

Tony Annicelli (aka Smokey) retired from the NYPD after he took four bullets in his side trying to settle a domestic dispute. He's asked by a famous model to look for a friend who suddenly disappears — a young  model, Angela Bowman (Eve), who a year earlier was working as a teenage prostitute. Eve...

“My darling Edith…” Averil read the impassioned words in disbelief and astonishment. A love letter, here among her spinster aunt's possessions? What could it mean? When Averil Matthews arrives to sort out her deceased aunt's estate, she expects to find a neat bundle of papers in...

Nostalgia can be deadly. It’s wintertime in Foggy Point, Washington, and tourists are as scarce as gold-plated thimbles at a thrift store. The denizens of the town decide that a colorful 1960s-themed festival is just the event to bring people out and get them moving and, hopefully, spending...

A storm is bearing down on Foggy Point, Washington, promising strong winds, flooding and power outages. Harriet Truman and the Loose Threads quilt group are sewing flannel rag quilts and making plastic tarps from grocery bags for the denizens of a local homeless camp. Then one of the homeless...

A young woman is killed by a hit-and-run driver, and when Ardis learns she knew the victim neither her heavy workload nor her husband’s disapproval keeps her from agreeing to help with the investigation. The more she and Detective Larry Hopkins learn, however, the less they know; and when...

A respected professor is discovered floating in the lake that adjoins both an exclusive country club and the estates of some of the county’s oldest residents. Everyone loved Alan, so who could possibly have wanted him dead? Unfortunately, as Ardis Jensen discovers, a lot of people, including...

Father Juan Ibarra came to Monterey to minister to the native Californians suffering under the heavy hand of the Spanish Empire. Instead, he’s caught up in a web of murder and corruption at the highest level. A young woman drowns—a seemingly tragic accident until Father Juan’s autopsy...

Pet quilts are the project of the day for Harriet Truman and the Loose Threads. Local veterinarian Aiden Jalbert decides to set up an animal kennel for the local battered women’s shelter and asks the quilters to sew bedding for it.  Harriet is soon drawn into the world of domestic violence...

It was supposed to be a vacation. What could possibly go wrong at an appliqué conference? If you’re Harriet Truman and the Loose Threads, just about anything. First, a drunken groom accosts Harriet in the hotel bar, and his outraged bride-to-be decides Harriet is making moves on her...