235 Alexander Street: 13 books

The Brightness wasn’t the end of the world, but it might as well have been. Now, Amy and her family are trying to rebuild their lives, trying to return to some kind of normalcy, all the time wondering…why did it happen? How? And when will it happen again? And a million years (Miles? Worlds?) away,...

Mt. Abrams was the kind of small, quiet town where, as any of its residents would tell you, nothing ever happened. That was why Ellie Rocca loved living there, even if her ex-husband did not. But even small towns had secrets, as Ellie discovered when Lacey Mitchell suddenly disappeared. Ellie...

Ellie Rocca is spending the New Year’s with Sam Kinali in a romantic Vermont inn for a murder mystery weekend with his law school friends. Practically perfect, right? It is, until a real dead body turns up. It’s pretty much an open and shut case. The killer has to be one of the inn’s guests,...

Ellie Rocca knows that inviting best-selling author Beth Graves Riley to speak at the Mt. Abrams library will score major brownie points in her small community. What she doesn’t know was that a fast moving blizzard will keep Beth, and her assistant, in Mt. Abrams—specifically, at Ellie’s house....

Grace has sworn off good-looking men. As soon as she starts dating one of them, she transforms from a mature, confident woman to a needy teen-aged girl.  So when she meets Seth, the best-looking man she’s ever seen, she makes the right choice — forget all about him. But a neurotic golden retriever...

Ellie Rocca tapped the best party-planning company in the state, Luxe, for her mother’s seventy-fifth birthday party, and she’s not disappointed. The food is perfect, the wine and beer are flowing freely, and all the guests are having a wonderful time. In fact, everything is going along just perfectly...

Founder’s Day weekend was always a big deal in Mt. Abrams, and not even the discovery of along-buried skeleton in Emma McLaren’s garden was enough to cancel the yearly celebration. But when a newly murdered corpse was found dumped in a rowboat the morning of the Founder’s Day Parade, everything...

Ellie Rocca hated Halloween, but that didn’t stop her from taking charge of the very first Mt. Abrams Halloween Scavenger Hunt. Mary Rose Reed, organizer extraordinaire, wanted to supply the entertainment, a juggling clown named Mr. Scarecrow, and Ellie knew it was easier to let Mary Rose have her...

The first three novellas in the Mt. Abrams Mysteries Series. Welcome to Mt. Abrams, a perfect little community where, everyone will tell you, nothing ever happens. Until… A Mother’s Day Murder Introducing Ellie Rocca and the small community of Mt. Abrams, where the...

The last three novellas in the Mt. Abrams Mystery series. A Deadly New Year Ellie Rocca and her boyfriend, Detective Sam Kinali are off to a cozy inn with Sam’s friends. He’s planned the perfect get-away—a murder mystery weekend. But romance takes a back seat when a real body turns...

Sixteen-year-old Carrie Fleming thought she was doing a good deed when a charming Frenchman claiming to be a prince crashed the wedding she was working. All she wanted to do was make sure he didn’t get into any trouble. And since he seemed infatuated with her older sister, Sara, it just made sense...

The very short, barely researched and totally off-the-cuff guide on how to deal with man’s best friend.   Once again, this is a short book.  In fact, let’s call it a bookLET to avoid any confusion.   It’s about puppies.  Everyone loves puppies.  Have you been...

Andy Williams.  Yoga.  Twitter. Costco. What do these things have in common?  Well, at one time or another, I blogged something about each of them.  As a writer, you are often told to write what you know.  This should tell you a lot about how glamorous and exciting this writer’s...