Alter Ego Publishing: 10 books

Mattie, the story of a pioneer woman physician on the western Nebraska frontier at the turn of the 20th century, is based on the life of Dr. Georgia Arbuckle Fix, and many of Mattie’s adventures come straight from Fix’s practice—the man with a hole in his skull, the drunken father whose liquor...

The Color of Fear marks Judy Alter’s return to mystery fiction and the Kelly O’Connell series after an absence of more than a year. This time, the indomitable Keisha narrates the short tale wherein Kelly and her family live under the threat of infant Gracie’s kidnapping. The story serves as...

Kelly O’Connell never thought real estate was a dangerous profession. But while updating early-twentieth-century Craftsman houses in an older neighborhood in Fort Worth, Texas, she stumbles over a skeleton and begins unraveling an old murder. The police call it a cold case, but Kelly knows she must...

Kelly O’Connell has her hands full: her husband Mike Shandy is badly injured in an automobile accident, developer Tom Lattimore wants to build a big-box grocery store called Wild Things in Kelly’s Fairmount neighborhood, and someone is stalking Kelly. Tom Lattimore’s pressure turns to threats...

Fifteen stories t that are funny and sad, modern and historical, urban and rural. They focus on women in the American West peaking in their own voices, sharing the universal female complexities of time and place. Characters—old women, ingénue, bride, mother, lover, widow, homemaker, teacher, adventuress—in...

When a serial killer begins targeting older women in Fort Worth’s Fairmount neighborhood, realtor/renovator Kelly O’Connell investigates, in spite of the pleas of her companion, policeman Mike Shandy, and her assistant, the colorful Keisha, that she stay out of it. Kelly knows a serial killer...

None of the pieces of the puzzle fit. What does the disappearance of a young girl and her disreputable boyfriend have to do with harrassment and threats against Kelly? How does a nurse in her doctor's office fit into the puzzle, and why are two men using the same name? Who is stalking Kelly and why? What...

A woman desperately seeking her biological mother, a televangelist determined to twart that search, a hired hit man, and in the midst of it all, a reclusive diva. Kelly has gotten herself involved in a dangerous emotional tangle this time, and Mike doesn't tell her to back off. Even when events take them from Fort Worth to San Antonio.

Susan Hogan is smart, pretty—and prickly—with those who love her, prickly with her academic colleagues in the English department at Oak Grove University. When a coed’s body is found in her car and she is suspected of murder, Susan gets even more defensive. But when someone begins to stalk...

Chicago, from swampland to host of the 1893 World Columbian Exposition, as lived by two leading historical figures: tycoon and hotelier Potter Palmer and his activist wife Bertha Honoré Palmer who fought for women’s rights and help for the poor. A story of love, major historical events, class warfare,...