Frankie Bow: 25 books

"It's been crazy," the desk clerk said. "We just had another big group stay here right before you guys, and they completely trashed the place. Shot out the security cameras with BB guns, pitched a couch off a seventeenth-floor balcony, and one room tried to flush a pillow down the toilet." "What...

Local businessman Buford Fontleroy Deale III is found shot dead in front of Harriet's Books in downtown Sinful. A blood-soaked pajama top is tied around his chest. And he's wearing only one shoe. The sheriff wants to talk to Harriet. Sinful's beloved bookseller was one of the last people to...

"Anubis, the ancient Egyptian god of the underworld, was a man with a wolf's head. The Navajo skin walkers could turn into any animal they pleased. And let's not forget the Hồ tinh, Hanoi's nine-tailed fox. I was thinking I might write a story about the Hồ tinh." "Gertie, that's a great...

"What's Celia complaining about this time? Did I wash my car on a Tuesday? Wear off-white before Labor Day?" Sheriff Lee fidgeted and cleared his throat. "Celia Arceneaux is dead, Fortune." CIA operative Fortune Redding signs up for night classes, hoping to ease the boredom of her undercover...

I found cooking to be something of a mystery. Fortunately, I had a strong stomach and what a fellow agent once enviously described as "taste buds of steel." Deputy Sheriff Carter LeBlanc has been seen around Sinful with a beautiful, blonde stranger. But Fortune is fine with it, really. It's...

Newly single and far from home, Professor Molly Barda wants to stay out of trouble until she gets tenure at remote Mahina State University. But when local big-shot Jimmy Tanaka, pledges a huge donation to Molly's college and then disappears, Molly's bottom-line-obsessed dean tasks her with locating...

When Professor Molly investigates a mysterious paddling accident, she discovers it isn't just business majors who cheat to get what they want. Whether it's moving up in the college rankings, getting a seat in the big canoe race, or just looking out for themselves, some people will do whatever it takes to sink the competition.

When a violent death disrupts the monthly meeting of the Pua Kala Garden society, Professor Molly Barda has no intention of playing amateur detective. But Molly's not just a witness–the victim is Molly's house guest and grad-school frenemy. And Molly quickly finds to her dismay that her interest in the murder of the stylish and self-centered Melanie Polewski is more than just…academic.

Mahina State's powerful fundraising office tasks Professor Molly with a special assignment: To serve as the personal tutierge (that's tutor-concierge) to Jeremy Brigham, whose mother happens to be fabulously wealthy and gravely ill. Molly is not thrilled at having to babysit a spoiled slacker. But...

When Professor Molly attends Mahina State University's exclusive donor dinner, she doesn't expect to share a table with the insufferable Stephen Park. Turns out it's one thing to invite your toxic ex-boyfriend to drop dead...it's quite another when he takes you up on it.

Professor Emma Nakamura doesn't believe in ghosts. So it doesn't bother her (much) when she learns of a long-ago suicide in her remote upcountry rental house. She's sure there's a logical explanation for the disappearing items and the strange sounds in the night. Fortunately (?), Emma's best friend...