"A mystery with a message..."

First in the new Highlands Ranch Mystery   Series!                             

New Pictures of an Old Murder is the first novel in the Highlands Ranch Mystery Series featuring amateur-sleuth Val Atwell, who has a nearly-always-absent husband—often away building homes with Habitat for Humanity and former President Jimmy Carter; five children; two mares named Burt and Ernie; a golden retriever named George; an old ranch house in the heart of Highlands Ranch, Colorado that needs much updating; and an Erma Bombeck sense of humor.

Val is plunged into a mystery when film found at the site of her sister’s fatal car crash is developed and pictures of what look like murder appear on the prints.  Val, of course, investigates, and the clues lead to a monied member of Val’s husband’s congregation.  When Val confronts the man, she is chastised by holier-than-thou church members, but she sticks to her mission and forges ahead nonetheless to find out how the pictures relate to her sister’s death.

During this time of turmoil, Val also works with her teenage son who is teased and bullied at school because he is the son of a minister.  She guides him away from fighting and into building his self-esteem and self-worth by working to excel in something that he loves. 

But before long, Val’s amateurish, pesky, not-so-subtle investigation launches her directly into the path of a killer—a killer who thinks nothing of another murder, Rocky Mountain style!

    "...this is one to              
read for sure."
Ed Beall,
Author of The Skull of Bogan Rio

Find yourself captivated by The Desk¾a story of bigotry, greed, kidnapping, and murder. It begins in Denver, Colorado, 1994.  The story tracks the actions of a young woman who is wracked by haunting flashbacks of scenes from a murder she is convinced was committed in Memphis, Tennessee¾five decades in the past!