Contemporary Southern Stories
Contemporary Southern Stories
In the latest Promise McNeal Mystery, once again told against the backdrop of the Western North Carolina Mountains, sorrow shadows Promise.
When all she wants is to creep into a safe corner in her house, her friend and neighbor, ex-bootlegger Fletcher Enloe, is suspected of murder. He has a festering motive from long ago, but so do a long line of suspects who disliked the victim, including a strange girl whose best friend is a doll in a box.
One by one, as old secrets find the light, Fletcher looks more and more guilty. But Promise doesn’t believe her friend is guilty of anything other than habitual crankiness. So, if she’s to save him from prison, she’ll need to carry her grief, step out of her cocoon, and expose the real killer.
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Welcome to Beyond, where the gravestones have no birth dates, and the residents are dying…
Looking For Ona introduces Paula Vega, whose plan for surviving Atlanta’s brutal summer is to complete her latest steamy romance novel and camp out by the pool. Then her best friend shows her a cryptic video staring his mother, and pool lounging is off the table.
Book two in the Beyond series.
Paula Vega leaves her hometown and moves to Beyond, NC. She hopes her new job as a B&B manager will bring a little peace and quiet to her life and rejuvenate her sagging writing career. But she soon realizes there will be none of that until she uncovers the town’s secrets.
Book three in the Beyond series.
When a B&B guest disappears in the middle of the night, and death claims another, Paula finds more than one mystery to solve, and her writing is interrupted while she learns a lesson in how much a best-selling novel can cost.
Book One
Atlanta psychologist, Promise McNeal, is second guessing her decision to leave her beloved city for a new life as a country store owner in the North Carolina Mountains.
Book Two
Evil comes knocking. After her great grandfather, January McNeal, haunts her dreams, retired psychologist and new transplant to the North Carolina Mountains, Promise McNeal, delves into family history for answers, but when she learns January was accused of grave robbery, she wonders if the past isn’t best left alone.
Book Three
How much rage can a quiet heart hold? Retired Atlanta psychologist and transplant to the North Carolina Mountains, Promise McNeal, her fiancé, Daniel Allen, and his intrepid, restaurateur daughter Susan, find the answer.
Book Four
It’s been seven months since Daniel’s cousin Sheriff Mac Allen was murdered. Daniel accepted the job as interim sheriff with hopes of finding Mac’s killer. But he has few clues.
Book Five
Tarot cards, a trapeze artist who doesn’t age, and a magician who really can disappear.
2019 Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Award Finalist
Book Six
Reznik the Magnificent returns in the 6thPromise McNeal Mystery.
Book Seven
An ill wind, cold and unpredictable, blows Paula Vega, into dangerous waters
This is the tale of a Southern ghost, Mavis Banks Book, who returns to her beloved Atlanta home on a fine spring day in 1996, ten years after her funeral.