If you like your crime writing quirky and heartwarming, you'll love The Booster Club. The Booster Club is the first in a new series of capers by the author of the Joanna Hayworth Vintage Clothing mysteries. With the help of Claudine's father and a retirement home for petty criminals, they must concoct a scheme clever enough to outwit the developer, the uppity Women's League, and at least one shady politician. The women set about buying the abandoned firehouse where the children have been living, only to discover that a ruthless developer wants the land.

She joins forces with Ruby-an outspoken hairdresser with a sideline of shoplifting-and Deborah, who can steal the watch off your wrist, but only as her alter ego, Sabine. When it comes to good deeds, the Booster Club proves that crime pays.Ĭlaudine is a fourth generation cat burglar preparing to heist the famous Cabrini jewels when she's drawn into finding a home for four children whose mother died in jail. Quirky characters, lots of action, and hairpin plot turns make The Booster Club a must-read and pure gold entertainment.' ~PJ Alderman, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of Haunting Jordan, a Port Chatham Cozy Mystery With two murders to solve and a killer on the loose, Jordan faces yet another equally terrifying prospect: her growing attraction to the very alive and criminally attractive pub owner Jase Cunningham.'In the first of what I hope will be a long-running series, Angela Sanders has resurrected the art of the comic caper, and done so brilliantly. Alderman weaves present-day supernatural sleuthery with nineteenth-century intrigue in the first book of an enchanting new mystery series set in picturesque Port Chatham, Washington. New York Times and USA Today bestselling author P. Holt's ancestor Michael Seavey, the Pacific Northwest's most infamous shanghaier, has materialized in Jordan's house, seeking to solve his own death in a suspicious shipwreck in 1893. Mass Market Paperback September 29, 2009.

And this one isn't taking murder lying down. As if living with the long-deceased isn't enough of a challenge, she's just found a corpse: The town's notorious womanizer Holt Stillwell is lying on the beach with a bullet in his head.īefore Jordan can reel in a suspect, another victim surfaces.

Alderman's delightful new mystery series blends haunting ghosts with hunting criminals as therapist Jordan Marsh dives deep into the past to solve a modern murder.Ī recent transplant to Washington State's charming seaside town of Port Chatham, Jordan is still getting used to sharing her slightly run-down but historic lodging with ghosts.

Haunting Jordan by P.J. Alderman