Jerusha Jones: 25 books

When a body bumps against the dock just a few feet from Eva Fairchild's floating house on the night of her welcome party at the marina, she begins to wonder if her recent move across the country was such a good idea. Combine the resulting murder investigation with mysterious nighttime kayak trips,...

Stay up late tonight reading (and chuckling). When Nora Sheldon's husband is kidnapped while they're on their honeymoon, all her hopes and plans tumble into a nightmare. Then the FBI comes knocking. Turns out Nora doesn't know Skip as well as she thought she did, and the feds are equally anxious...

Summoned to a conference with a loathsome biker gang president, Nora learned her phantom money-laundering husband is striking fear into the hearts (and guts) of his former clients. Can she capitalize on their trepidation without getting sucked into the criminal network's implosion or facing retaliation...

When Nora Ingram-Sheldon learns her fugitive criminal husband had (has?) his crooked fingers in even more May County, Washington businesses, and that his involvement puts her new friends and neighbors at risk, what can she do but go on the hunt—for answers, for culprits, and for cracks she can widen...

When an expansion project results in the discovery of a priceless trove of stolen artwork, Nora Ingram-Sheldon learns just how personal her criminal fugitive husband's quest is. Clues are dropping into place just as even more pop up. But can she trust Skip to feed her the information she needs...

What do you do when you've stolen a readily identifiable object worth millions? An item no pawnshop operator in his right mind would touch. And the cops—county, state, feds, every agency with a terrifying three-letter acronym—are hot on your trail? Ditch the goods, of course. Even...

Changes are afoot. Lots of them. Eva Fairchild supposes that's to be expected when one is self-employed. But being conscripted into pro bono work on top of her already busy schedule? Sure, why not? Add supper club experiments in the midst of a January ice storm; missing valuables; the snarky,...

Eva Fairchild is reveling in the idyllic, if insular, setting of her adopted home at Marten's Marina when a rash of newcomers triggers speculation and the not-so-latent nosy tendencies among the residents. Eva is appalled to learn that she's acquired a surprising new persona along with her new location—since...

Nora Ingram-Sheldon's family history is coming back to haunt her—in the form of threatening mob enforcers and extortion, putting all she holds dear in peril. Turns out her connections with organized crime aren't just complements of her marriage to Skip Sheldon. Her father may also have a dark past....

It's a cause avid foodie and enthusiastic eater, Eva Fairchild, can really get behind—the launch of a CSA (community-supported agriculture) farm in the small town of Fidelity, Oregon. But when a tractor plows up a WWII-era bomb in the back forty, things get dicey. Turns out there's more lurking...

You know what's bad for business in a boutique hotel? A body in the bed. One that doesn't have enough air left in her lungs to become a satisfied repeat customer. Since the hotel owner is one of Eva Fairchild's public relations and marketing clients, creatively constructed spin and press statements...

Summer, and the Willamette River is a busy place. Eva Fairchild should know…since the wakes of all those passing bulk freighters (not to mention the splashy aftereffects of the daredevil personal-watercraft aficionados and hobbyist fishermen and wide-bottomed weekend yachters) set her floating house...

The population of Sockeye County is growing, for all the best reasons—weddings and babies! But the other kind of influx is going on too. The singular kind of crazy that is tourist season. While their leisure-spent money is certainly appreciated by the townsfolk, the thrill seekers bring a...

Meredith Morehouse, curator of the eclectic Imogene Museum, is suddenly short-staffed. Her favorite (and only) graduate student intern, Greg, is missing—without leaving behind so much as an empty pizza box, to say nothing of a note. Plus, a prowler has been rearranging the museum's brand...