Murder On Moonlight Beach

One morning on Moonlight Beach in Southern California, a body of a young woman is discovered deceased on the shore. This leads Detectives Lance Clayton & Yolanda Black on a homicide case spanning the existence of life on the planet they call 'Earth'...

Moonlight Beach, adjoining the exclusive, opulent hamlet of Rancho California is a sleepy conclave in Southern California where median home prices top $5,000,000 and yearly incomes...well if you can afford a home there, then your income is commensurate. What has been shattering this sunny, sheltered little world? Death. Bodies washed up on Moonlight Beach. Grisly mutilations. Could it be sharks - hungry, hunting, doing what they do best? But, maybe it's something else: something sinister, dangerous, perhaps even supernatural? Then there's the cynical, greedy, local Venture Capitalists looking to start a company supplying organs to those with the need and the money; could they be responsible? Could their greed reach so far into such unimaginable violence? And how about the nearby coven of witches who often explore their own bizarre rituals and dark magic, could they be involved? As victims or willing participants? On a recent night, two more people are murdered on a cliff overlooking the beach - their organs are missing. Serial killer? Greed? Black magic?

If you're searching for the perfect light and funny Beach Read, what could be better than one that features mysteries actually on the beach? And with eight funny short stories, you can travel along with our cozy authors to a variety of shores: from the rocky coastlines of New England, to the white stretches of sand on the Atlantic, to the teal and emerald waters of the Gulf Coast, the surfing havens on the Pacific, and even the beaches in between. So take a trip with our authors as they show you that sharks aren't the only danger near the water. Stories by Ritter Ames, Karen Cantwell, Lucy Carol, Barb Goffman, Eleanor Cawood Jones, Shari Randall, Shawn Reilly Simmons, and Cathy Wiley.

A Shakespearean scholar inherits a beachside bookshop—and a murder mystery—in this delightful new cozy series for fans of Kate Carlisle and Ellery Adams Summer Merriweather’s career as a Shakespeare professor hangs by a bookbinder’s thread. Academic life at her Virginia university is a viper’s pit, so Summer spends her summer in England, researching a scholarly paper that, with any luck, will finally get her published, impress the Dean, and save her job. But her English idyll ends when her mother, Hildy, shuffles off her mortal coil from an apparent heart attack. Returning to Brigid’s Island, North Carolina, for the funeral, Summer is impatient to settle the estate, sell Beach Reads—her mom’s embarrassingly romance-themed bookstore—and go home. But as she drops by Beach Reads, Summer finds threatening notes addressed to Hildy: “Sell the bookstore or die.” Clearly, something is rotten on Brigid’s Island. What method is behind the madness? Was Hildy murdered? The police insist there’s not enough evidence to launch a murder investigation. Instead, Summer and her Aunt Agatha screw their courage to the sticking place and start sleuthing, with the help of Hildy’s beloved book club. But there are more suspects on Brigid’s Island than are dreamt of in the Bard’s darkest philosophizing. And if Summer can’t find the villain, the town will be littered with a Shakespearean tragedy’s worth of corpses—including her own.

Historic preservationist Ashley Wilkes finds her friend Valentine Russo murdered at the desk of Valentine's art gallery, and the walls bare of art.

Maggie Thomas is still stumbling her way through running her uncle's Miami Beach P.I. agency. When a dead woman washes up on the shore, Maggie has reason to believe the woman's death wasn't an accident. Maggie may have recently solved her first case as a private eye, but handsome detective Jake Jackson warns her that this one is too complex. Maggie ignores Jake's warning. When a man involved in the case disappears without a trace, Maggie and her orthopedic shoe-wearing assistant, Dorothy Raye, go undercover to help crack the case--that is, if Dorothy can put down her knitting needles long enough. With boat chases, explosions, and sharks, Maggie soon finds out that sometimes murder is a beach and sometimes you die.