Gretchen Rix

Olive Sommers didn't set out to solve a murder. But there's no harm in Olive trying to help, is there? She's got her wits, her sister's brains, and especially her 100-pound dog Boo....

How can you run a successful annual writers' tea party when your guest author turns up murdered, and when your choice for a substitute speaker might be the prime suspect? Think old-timey British mystery novel, but set it in Texas and put some barbecue in it. Add the unruly American mastiff Boo...

The sound of a vehicle door opening was like opium to their dog Boo. Police car, garbage truck, animal control van, serial killer in a stolen pickup, it made no difference....

All that stands between Captain Carmady and an exceptionally ugly death is his first lieutenant, Joan Chikage. And she will not budge. The Goodall Marauders, book three in the Goodall series of science fiction mysteries...

The adventure continues for Lieutenant Joan Chikage of the USS Goodall. Surely, after all she'd gone through, he couldn't mean to put her back in the same boring assignment. Even if it was important in some way, she was done with that job. And ready for something else. She'd commanded a small...

Walking death, they're called. And those horrible macadamia trees. But their real names are Whig, Mary Jane, and Quetzalcoatl, just to name three of them. Trees don't walk. But here they do. In Ill Met by Moonlight they walk, they kill, they eat people, and then they're.... Nope. Telling you...

Former diplomat Leona Robin wonders if she made a mistake moving to rural Texas. Her son loves it here, but in a place where it's normal for a prize bull to have his own pet pig and hay bales are raining from the sky, Leona wonders how she'll ever fit in. That is, until she's thrown right into...

All the normal sounds usually reaching the lower decks of the USS Goodall during routine subspace flight have just been cut off....

For your consideration: six devilishly twisted tales. For those who like them quirky. Saints & Sinners: On the cruise ship Ascendant, sinners play as heaven and hell hang in the balance. And saints? They toss, throw, push or shove people overboard. The Taking of Rhinoceros 456: Myths live at the...