Amanda Brenner: 11 books

When aristocratic Karl, Graf von Abensberg, heir to a centuries-old title, married commoner Leda Devoe, he told her he needed her strength, her courage, and her love. Soon all three are tested when Karl is injured in an explosion that leaves him in a deep coma, and Leda is all that stands between...

Rick is looking forward to the next phase of his young life and sharing some exciting news with his girlfriend, Cassie. When she calls asking to meet at their favorite hangout near her home, he drives through the dark, rainy streets to the burger joint across town, wondering what could be on her mind....

“Yes, yes,” Henrietta said impatiently, fingering the pince-nez that hung from her neck on a black braided cord, “but it’s really just too intriguing. It has all the ingredients of a first-rate crime novel, if you ask me. Think of it: a young heiress alone and grief stricken after the mysterious...

The Last Cookie is an account of our experience dealing with wildlife at our urban homestead. It was written with the hope of a little more understanding and tolerance for the creatures who share our city space.

Sid Langdon, a self-doubting magnet for offbeat clients and hapless scenarios, is hired by a wealthy gentleman to investigate mysterious occurrences at his parents’ lakeside estate. He considers the incidents the work of pranksters trading on a local legend of a Confederate officer whose ghost prowls...

How many were there?  Enough.  Over the centuries they had evolved to satisfy their needs with a more passive source of the nutrients they required; after all, blood was blood.  But not for all.  Some could not resist the ancient urge to satisfy their blood lust with the warm, flowing liquid of...

When a fellow writer's mail is returned marked "Temporarily Away" and she is unable to reach him, Henrietta Harcourt asks the local sheriff to investigate, and the man's mummified remains are discovered in his remote cabin on the edge of a national forest.  After his death is dismissed...

The aftermath of a hanging—of the fifteen year old brother of a hired killer—is a wild and wicked tale of revenge and bloody retribution. Charlie Cross vows vengeance on the posse that lynched his brother, who had the bad luck to be in the wrong place at the wrong time; but he never figured a...

Despite rumors of its deadly curse and doubts of the stone’s very existence, Andrew Weberley risks his life and all he holds dear to search the steamy jungles of Guatemala for the fabulous sapphire known as the Nourdon Blue. After months without word from her father, Felicia Weberley hires...

Sid Langdon, a newly-licensed private investigator, gets his first case—complete with a corpse and a million dollars in missing jewels.  And he is tapped to find the answers by the very man who may be responsible for both!  So who done it?  Sid wades through a sordid quagmire of blackmail, adultery,...

Charlotte Beckford watched helplessly as the man she loved was gunned down in the middle of a dusty Kansas street. In another month, they would have married. Now, as she knelt and cradled Adam's broken body, she screamed hysterically at his murderer, swearing that she would see him hang. But Bowie...