Julie Eberhart Painter: 5 books

Penny volunteers as a bereavement caller at a local hospice where she runs into a whole new set of nutty buddies. Hospice workers ,under stress and subject to burnout, romp through the offices chased by a psychic medium who uncovers their life secrets with eerie accuracy. The hapless humans become...

When two residents in Ellen Lange’s nursing home are murdered, Special Investigator Bill Watts is called to the scene. With the murders linked to others, known as the Ponytail crimes, it’s only a matter of time before the killer strikes again. Bill is a Southerner; Ellen was raised in the...

Two boys, Aaron, who is white and Skillet, who is black, are bonded in a friendship forged in secret in the Deep South. Yet it is the white boy who must adjust and readjust as his family splinters in the changing climate of integration.Aaron is hard on himself. With Skillet's vision, he...

When Penny Olsen’s uncle is murdered, she inherits fifteen million dollars, servants and his moldy mausoleum, a ninety-eight-year-old beach house on an environmentally sensitive property. But who, in this town of genteel seniors would kill this beloved man and the editor of EARTH-be-WARE...

Laura, descended from the Princess Kura, revisits her Tahitian heritage to seek her birth father, a Polynesian navigator Ian, an English journalist connected by heritage, falls in love with Laura. He’s by her side when dejá vu. overtakes her and they are plunged into the past to the time...