Chelsea Graydon: 15 books

A bigger collection of quick crime stories from Chelsea Graydon. It’s filled with robbers, swindlers, murderers, art thieves, stalkers, and firebugs...and the people who catch them. Ten stories that combine those of the collections Quick Crime, and More Quick Crime. Includes “Smile for the Camera,”...

Another delightful collection of five quick crime stories from Chelsea Graydon. In this one, follow a man who’s been eluding the police as he lives off the wilderness (and cabins) around Two-Toe Lake. Feel the unbearable tension of a woman who’s going to off her husband and run away with her online...

The low level con ain’t an easy way to earn a living, but a grifter does what he’s gotta do. And Curtis’s latest, a classic watermelon drop that plays on the stupidity of rich Japanese tourists…well, it’s just satisfying somehow. Until his latest mark -- pretty, embarrassed, and not too bright -- suggests a way to step up his game.

Androcles, a Cornish Rex cat, was rescued from the shelter by his mistress, Julia. He's been watching out for her ever since. So when Julia quite innocently offers overnight lodgings to a man apparently down on his luck, it’s up to Androcles to check him out.

Julie’s the bookkeeper for a small business for which twelve checks have mysteriously gone missing. Now it’s her job (and freedom!) on the line as she runs to solve a crime that would have made Shakespeare shudder.

On Eva’s first day working as a teller at the bank, she loses her umbrella, is terrorized by the bank manager, makes a friend, and...solves a bank robbery?

Someone’s kidnapped Noelle’s husband and is possibly stalking her. And while she has a plan to unveil the perpetrator, it will take a detective’s help and a whole lot of nerve to carry it off.

Ralph’s not gonna be an ordinary break-and-enter guy because he’s figured out a method, one that uses the dogs of the people he targets against them. And he’s just spotted the perfect canine accomplice…

Bobby Waller’s done pretty good for a sport clerk who figured how the government was searching everyone’s mail. Stole him some money and been hiding out around Two-Toe Lake, living off cabin break-ins for 26 days! They can’t catch him because he’s careful and ruthless. Like the old widow in one of his target cabins is about to find out...

Marlena has played it safe her whole life, so when she falls hard for a man she meets on an anonymous chat site, she’s careful to cover her computer tracks after each session and not send any information that can be tracked back to her. But her husband suspects anyway. Now it’s time for Marlena...

Nick’s going to score a new 4x4 for his “exporter”, but as he watches it park in a nearly-deserted lot, driven by a hot woman, he figures he’ll use his smooth charm to score more than just the car. Except this broad’s making him work for it...

Pierre makes a very good living romancing wealthy women out of their money and jewels. He likes his marks rich, quiet, and emotionally needy. And his latest may be his sweetest prize yet. But looks can be deceiving.

Howard just wants to be a hero, even if it means creating the disasters he rescues people from. And if none of his ventures have worked out just like he planned, that’s only because they haven’t been as perfect as the scheme he’s cooked up now. An old folks home. A fire. How can he miss?

Cole Fincher is the brilliant artist who finishes all the roughed-in painting of Katarzyna Yarschansky, yet it is only Katarzyna’s name on the paintings, so she gets the fame and fortune while Cole receives only her disdain and a journeyman’s wage. It’s time for things to change. And his point...