The Cruising Sisters Mysteries
Book 3 coming January 2025!
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Praise for the series
—Sara Leitch
—Dru’s Book Musings
“Excellent mid-life mystery with heart and humor.”
—SydMD
Frightened to Depths
Book Three Coming January 20, 2025
Murder is never smooth sailing…
Charlotte McLaughlin assumes she’s finally shed all her tears on the first anniversary of her husband’s passing. After all, she’s living in his luxury suite on a private cruise ship, visiting exotic ports, and living her best life with her sister, Jane.
Certainly, she’s done with murder mysteries, too.
Then, while docked in New Orleans, Jane reunites with an old crush who—surprise!—joins their cruise. He’s an odd duck with an obsession to write a book about Louisiana werewolves, and it’s turning the sisters’ companionship into a snarling catfight. It’s almost a relief that Emmett is the prime suspect when a trumpet player booked as a headliner for this sailing is silenced forever by a silver bullet to the heart.
But the band members themselves also had plenty of reasons to seek their leader’s death, and Jane stands by her man, leaving Charlotte alone again. Is Charlotte merely hoping Emmett is the killer so she can hang on to her new normal—or should she risk a permanent rift by pursuing her hunch to protect Jane’s life?
A Matter of Life and Depths
Book Two
Murder has twisted them together…
It’s bad enough that Kyrie Dawn had an affair and a son with Charlotte McLaughlin’s husband, then sued her for their two-bedroom love nest he’d purchased on a private residence cruise ship following his death. That’s Charlotte’s consolation prize, and she’s chosen to travel the world in this luxury cabin, with her sister Jane along for the ride.
But now Kyrie Dawn has taken a job onboard teaching yoga—and she’s brought her little boy, who looks just like his father, with her!
Charlotte considers jumping ship as they sail toward Yokohama, Japan. Then the head chef is found in the downward dead position in Kyrie Dawn’s yoga studio, and all evidence points to her as the killer. She begs Charlotte and Jane to look after this friendly toddler—permanently if she’s found guilty.
With a second chance at motherhood snuggled in her lap, Charlotte must decide which life path to follow. Can she even set aside her hurt and anger to help exonerate the woman who ruined her life?
Until Depths Do Us Part
Book One
Sudden riches lead to a world of trouble…
Newly widowed Charlotte McLaughlin is adrift following the sudden death of her husband of twenty years and the shocking discovery of the lavish double life he’d lived while purportedly traveling for business.
When Charlotte’s only nephew and his fiancée are notified that their secluded wedding venue has flooded, her sister Jane suggests an alternative venue: a Thanksgiving week cruise from Seattle to Alaska aboard the private residence ship where Charlotte’s husband had purchased a two-bedroom unit without her knowledge.
What better way to get closer with her family and banish the memories Charlotte can’t bear to touch now?
But the bride is found dead less than twenty-four hours after departure, and the head of security holds the groom on suspicion of her murder. Charlotte and Jane must figure out who is responsible for the murder before their nephew goes to jail for a crime they’re adamant he couldn’t have committed. Then a second victim is discovered, and Charlotte becomes even more certain there’s a killer on the guest list.