Meg Perry: 18 books

A phone call in the middle of the night is never good news. When Pete Ferguson’s phone rings, he learns that one of his childhood friends, Mark Jones, has committed suicide. Mark’s family is shocked, and wonders if Mark was abused by the same priest at whose hands Pete suffered. Pete and Mark’s...

Elaine Pareja didn’t have any fans among her colleagues in the psychology department at Santa Monica College. When her promotion application is denied and she is terminated, no one is sorry to see her go. When Elaine is reinstated for no apparent reason, it causes a revolt in the department. When...

Here are 32 short stories that take place in the Jamie Brodie Mysteries universe, most of them never previously published. Spanning from 1974-2017, the stories tell of first dates, first loves, and first meetings of lifelong friends.

Mercedes Moran is one of the stars of the self-publishing world, a romance author who’s made millions by selling 99 cent romance novels through all of the ebook platforms. Her fan base is enormous - but Mercedes is a horrible person, and she’s made plenty of enemies, too.The Association of Self-Publishing...

“Having someone get murdered at your wedding has to be the worst.”Scott Deering, cellist for the Los Angeles Philharmonic, doesn’t usually play weddings. But a friend’s family emergency finds him reluctantly anchoring a college string quartet at the wedding of a couple with more money than...

Rafe Conroy, has-been actor, is filming the TV pilot intended to be his big comeback. But Rafe’s comeback is cut short when he’s found dead in his swimming pool. It was murder, all right, but there are nearly too many suspects to count. Was it the network owner, a wealthy heiress who was sleeping...

Autumn brings a fresh start in academia, but there are signs that Jamie Brodie’s autumn quarter might bring trouble. First, his next door neighbors unexpectedly drop off the grid. Several days later Jamie discovers - with the help of his dog - that something very bad has happened in the neighbors’...

Jamie Brodie is on deadline. The proposal for his second book is due, and he desperately needs uninterrupted writing time. At the suggestion of patron, friend, and former monk Clinton Kenneally - and over the protests of Pete Ferguson, Jamie’s husband - Jamie schedules a week-long writing retreat...

When Jamie Brodie agrees to help his ex-sister-in-law Jennifer clean her hoarded apartment, the last thing he expects to find in the hoard is a dead body – and what the dead man was clutching in his hand might be the answer to a thousand-year-old mystery. As Jamie and the police investigate, they...

Academic librarian Jamie Brodie hasn't seen old boyfriend Dan Christensen in years. When Jamie reads Dan's obituary in the paper, he's surprised. When he receives a letter from Dan, written just before his death, Jamie is shocked. Dan's letter suggests that Dan was in danger, lists two article citations...

Librarians gone wild! It’s a typical state library association conference - presentations, networking, receptions, drinking, strangers appearing in Pete and Jamie’s room in the middle of the night… What’s atypical is murder. A lot of people hated library director Hugo Creighton, most of them...

Jamie Brodie and his entire family are on vacation in Scotland, staying at their ancestral home, Brodie Castle. The family’s fun is interrupted by a threat of blackmail...then they fall under suspicion when the blackmailer turns up dead. Jamie, Pete, Kevin, and Kristen set out to clear the Brodie...

In 1915, farmer and amateur archaeologist Robert Thomson disappeared from Scotland’s Orkney Islands with a priceless Stone Age artifact. A century later, his great-great-grandson, Pete Ferguson, is coming to Scotland with boyfriend Jamie Brodie to meet his distant cousins and investigate Robert’s...

It seems Jamie Brodie can't go anywhere anymore without a body turning up. Jamie and his boyfriend Pete Ferguson are taking a week of vacation to visit Pete's brother Steve in Alamogordo, New Mexico. They arrive to find that Alamogordo has been invaded - by fans of a TV show called Alien...