Misterio Press: 56 books

Psychotherapist Kate Huntington is rocked to the core when one of her clients commits suicide. How can this be? The woman, who suffered from bipolar disorder, had been swinging toward a manic state. The client’s family is threatening to sue for malpractice, and Kate can’t fault them since she...

A story ripped from real-life headlines. A police detective is found in an alley, standing over the body of an unarmed African-American boy. Groggy from a concussion, he has no memory of what happened, and he is literally holding the smoking gun. To the Baltimore County Internal Affairs...

Murder aboard the Overland Limited… It is the summer of 1898. Professor Concordia Wells is eager to accompany her friend, Pinkerton detective Penelope Hamilton, on a cross-country train trip to San Francisco. Breathless vistas and exciting locales will be a welcome change from a fiancé impatient...

Her gargoyle’s got an attitude. Her magic’s on the blink. Alchemy might be the cure… If Riga can survive long enough to puzzle out its mysteries. Someone’s killing psychics in bucolic Lake Tahoe, and the police think Riga may be connected to the crimes. They...

A tropical paradise turns deadly. Service dog trainer Marcia Banks had thought it was the perfect arrangement—stay on her client's private Gulf-coast island and get the human phase of the training done more quickly, while enjoying a much-needed break from the chaos of house renovations back...

It’s Christmastime on the exclusive island of Moon Key and Elle Pressley, doga instructor, is excited about her new client—movie star, Talia Hill. But that excitement quickly turns to shock when Ms. Hill’s dog nanny is found dead and her beloved terrier, Ginger, goes missing. With the help of...

Beware of rich men bearing gifts… It's the fall of 1899 and the new Mrs. David Bradley—formerly Professor Concordia Wells of Hartford Women's College—is chafing against the hum-drum routine of domestic life. The routine is disrupted soon enough when the long-hated but wealthy patriarch...

Worst. Proposal. Ever. When an FBI raid interrupts Donovan’s marriage proposal, Riga’s shaken to her core. Is Donovan the person she thought he was? Riga’s determined to find out. But life, death, and magic get in the way. A death faerie has other plans for...

Murder. The undead. Irritating relatives. When Riga Hayworth finds a dead body in the bedroom, it’s par for the course. When the corpse drives off with her fiancé… That’s a problem. Metaphysical detective Riga Hayworth knows dead. More intimately than she’d like. So when a murdered...

Hoodoo, Haunts, and Horror. Metaphysical Detective Riga Hayworth just wants to wrap up her supernatural TV series exploring the magic of New Orleans and go home. But when she stumbles across a corpse, she ends up a police consultant on a series of occult murders. Murders that soon become all...

Mermaids, menehunes, and murder. Riga Hayworth just wants to relax with her new husband on their Hawaiian honeymoon. But the bodies of a murdered man and a seal found on a Kauai beach pull them into an investigation and send the supernatural world into an uproar. When Riga detects traces...

A Monstrous Assassin. A Metaphysical Detective. Housebound with five-month-old twins, metaphysical detective Riga Hayworth just wants to get back in the metaphysical detecting game. But when she’s called to help an elderly woman, haunted and alone, a deadly threat follows Riga home. Can Riga...

Brigitte is Nevada’s bravest and most brilliant gargoyle – and there’s no better sidekick for metaphysical detective, Riga Hayworth, when it comes to solving supernatural crimes. In this quirky collection of urban fantasy short stories, Kirsten Weiss takes Brigitte and Riga on a series...

Tarot, Wine... and a Dog Named Dog. When Riga Hayworth finds her new client dead, she smells a setup of metaphysical proportions. Now, to find a killer, Riga must travel from San Francisco to the underworld of Greek mythology... and make it back alive. Riga's client, Helen Baro, believes...