Plane View Books: 27 books

Rob Mangan has problems. His small independent research lab is on the brink of bankruptcy and his wife's gone off with the fish tank cleaner. So when Rob and his brother Phil are offered a small fortune to develop surgical dressings using sphagnum moss, they jump at the opportunity. But things...

It's the season of peace on earth and goodwill toward men except at R&P Labs, which has been drawn into the middle of a feud between two Seattle seafood restaurants.A customer has died from an unusual form of food poisoning found in oysters and the restaurant where he had his last meal is in trouble....

Having lost both her husband and her job, Zukie Merlino has time on her hands and a mystery to solve. Night after night, someone is searching the empty house next door, whose elderly owner died following an unusually explosive Fourth of July. A second death in the house brings out all Zukie's detective...

    A chance to win $10,000 by writing a fast food slogan seems like a no-brainer to Zukie Merlino, but things go disastrously wrong when one of her co-competitors is murdered at the hotel where they’re all staying for the final round. Confined to quarters but still able to cause chaos, Zukie...

Zukie Merlino’s daughter Carol is (finally) getting married, and Zukie has been told in no uncertain terms that her role at the wedding is to show up, shut up and keep smiling. That’s hard enough, but when a body turns up at the rehearsal, she faces an even tougher challenge. The wedding’s in...

'Trick or treat' takes on a whole new meaning when Zukie's at the door in this Zukie Merlino Mysteries short story.

It’s the early 1970s. Buoyed by the success of the moon landing, NASA gives a small team of scientists the green light for a project to develop instantaneous communication – mind reading. Their experiment ultimately requires a human brain cortex to be projected into the past, and team leader Carl...

In the fifth R&P Labs Mystery, a bachelor party camping trip takes an unexpected turn when the participants discover they are sharing their campsite with a skeleton -- a biologist who was murdered three decades earlier. As the R&P staff -- Rob, Phil, Ellis, Virginia and Mitch -- are...

Things are not going well at R&P Labs. Not only is there a body in the biology lab and a staff member suspected of murder, but someone has broken in and wrecked their most important piece of equipment -- the coffeemaker. This is one case that is too close for comfort, so in 'Childproof',...

When Gabriel Webb volunteered for a sleep lab experiment, he didn't expect to find himself pursued by the Grim Reaper on a racing bike. And when, on a cold October morning, Rob Mangan offered a cup of hot coffee to a shivering stranger in the R&P Labs parking lot, he never dreamed what the consequences...

    Unusual ingredients found in their products are threatening the good reputation of Gardener’s Spice & Herb Company, so R&P Labs agree to investigate. But what seems like a simple job takes a deadly twist when one member of the Gardener family has a fatal accident on an icy road and...

Property developer Leslie Henderson wants to demolish a quirky 1940s building and erect a modern office block in its place. But the building happens to be occupied by R&P Labs, and in 'Bedrock', the eleventh mystery in the series, its staff members face their biggest challenge yet. Mitch has an...

A simple, lucrative project to grow ferns seems an attractive proposition for R&P Labs, but that’s before Florida botanist Grayson Quayle travels 3,000 miles to attach himself to the lab, bringing with him a pile of unwelcome personal baggage. The R&P staff would like to see the last...