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#1 in the Keegan Shaw Mystery Series
It’s August in Seminole Beach, Florida and Keegan Shaw has enough problems without discovering a dying young man on the Riverwalk and becoming involved in murder. Her boyfriend has just returned to his ex-wife and the air conditioning in her three-story house is on its last legs. When the AC fails completely, she takes on a job she doesn’t want - finishing a poorly made World War II video for a friend - to pacify her houseful of hot, bickering artists. As she interviews locals who remember the war, she hears tales of German U-boats, torpedoed sailors, German prisoners escaping from POW camps, smuggling and spies. Soon she discovers an obscure connection between Seminole Beach’s wartime past and the dead kid she found on the dock. As the past becomes infinitely more real, Keegan learns the hard way that some locals object to resurrecting it. And she acknowledges the truth of a time-honored quote: “Other sins only speak, murder shrieks out.”
#2 in the Keegan Shaw Mystery Series
At the request of an old lover, Keegan Shaw keeps an appointment with Sunni Russell, a locally famous business woman. Sunni wants to know who her birth father is, and she’s been told Keegan has a talent for sorting out secrets. She hires Keegan to follow her mother to London, keep her eyes open and her mouth shut, and to report back. Mrs. Russell, who lives her life according to psychics, has kept Sunni’s father a secret for 47 years. And despite the saying, “If you can remember London in the Sixties, you weren’t there,” Abby Russell remembers it all: mini skirts, pot, free love, LSD, Carnaby Street, The Stones. But instead of the warm, fuzzy buzz of nostalgia, Abby is haunted by the unsolved 1966. murder of her flatmate. Against Sunni’s instructions, Keegan befriends Mrs. Russell on the flight to London and together they explore London’s post-recession art world and those associated with a particularly posh West End gallery: its single-minded owner, his aging ex-boyfriend, his bitter ex-wife, his hot young girlfriend, his even hotter son, and an old writer friend. Keegan realizes some aren’t who they pretend to be and one is not quite finished with murder.
#3 in the Keegan Shaw Mystery Series
One month before the millennium, a 7-year-old mute helps his stepfather did up a cracked floor in the local Catholic Church. He grabs up a handful of the exposed dirt, speaks his first word ever, and within weeks Lost River, Florida is flooded with strangers who want to touch the healing earth and toss away their crutches. But one less-spiritual visitor, a journalist determined to jump-start his stalled career, insists the magic dirt is a hoax. Within days of his arrival, his smart mouth and non-stop boozing have alienated everyone in town and prompted a death threat or two. Keegan Shaw, in nearby Seminole Beach, receives a call from an old friend asking her to rescue the brash journalist from Lost River’s irate locals and himself. Then somebody turns up dead on the magic earth, which seems impossible. How can a dead body end up in an empty, locked church with an active burglar alarm - a church that’s been surrounded by people all night long?
#4 in the Keegan Shaw Mystery Series
It’s January and Keegan Shaw has abandoned sunny, 80 degree Florida for bitterly cold Newport, Rhode Island. Everything about the Queen of American Resorts is bleak - particularly the spooky looking guesthouse on Gulf Avenue where Keegan has been hired to look into “weird happenings”. Keegan has barely unpacked her bags when dead rats turn up on the stairs, electric lights flicker off and on for no reason, a ghost is potted on the third floor, and the owner of the guesthouse tumbles downstairs and breaks both ankles. It’s up to Keegan to discover just how these strange and dangerous occurrences relate to a twenty-year-old robbery, a Greek island and a very old murder.
#5 in the Keegan Shaw Mystery Series
When Seminole Beach native, Tim Mahoney, dies from cancer, he leaves behind a string of ex-wives, girlfriends, children, step children, and a nineteen-year-old mistress. But when the authorities discover his death was not natural, his nearest and not-so-dearest become suspects in a murder investigation. Keegan Shaw does a little snooping for a friend - one of the ex-wives who never managed to get over Tim - and finds means and motive all over the place. Opportunity, however, is a different matter. It takes a second murder on Halloween night and an encounter with a Death Angel to unearth old secrets and a devious murderer.
#6 in the Keegan Shaw Mystery Series
Against her better judgment, Keegan Shaw’s house in Seminole Beach is being turned into an Airbnb. To avoid the disruption, and to rid herself of a lingering cold, Keegan checks into a lavish day spa. But instead of the expected massage, sauna and whirlpool, she is whisked away to a Palm Beach mansion and charged with finding someone’s missing spiritual advisor. To do that, she must deal with a wealthy socialite, a footloose daughter, an elderly artist, an ex-husband, a personal trainer, several ex-boyfriends, the Ukrainian maid and chauffeur, and a chef who cooks endangered species. Oh yeah, and a murder.
#7 in the Keegan Shaw Mystery Series
Take:
One mildly depressed ex-photojournalist; one hot-looking excavation director and an underwater archeologist and known party animal
Mix them with:
Four less-than-reputable salvage divers and four million $ in gold, silver and jewels from the 1715 Spanish fleet
Place them all:
On the Florida coast at the ruins of a 1500s Spanish mission that several people want to build condos on
And what do you get?
A recipe for murder.