Bøger af Cynthia Hickey

Why can't she have a party that doesn't result in a death?Is that too much for a girl to ask?With their television crime drama up for an award, Kelly Canyon and her grandmother Ruthie are smack dab in the middle of Hollywood's social scene. Things were going great until they find a body floating face down in their pool during a party.As Kelly sets out to solve the crime, and write another best-selling novel in the meantime, she finds herself running for her life one step ahead of the person responsible for her father's murder.She won't stop now. Not when she is so close to finding the answers she seeks.Come along as Kelly and her crazy, but loveable group of cohorts, once again immerse themselves into murder.

Kelly Canyon's grandmother is finally getting married and has one wish......that no one dies during the reception.Unfortunately, wishes don't always come true, and a top Hollywood agent is murdered. Kelly and her crew are thrust into the midst of a murder that ties very strongly into the death of Kelly's father years before.From the glitz of Hollywood to the blitz of Las Vegas, Kelly is thrust into a dark danger that threatens to take away everything she holds dear.Will she ever get justice for her father and enjoy a future with Hollywood's golden boy, Brock Hanson? Or will her thirst for vengeance be everyone's downfall?The final book in the Hollywood Murder series is sure to satisfy.

An obsession turns deadly.When a serial killer stalks women who resemble each other, a small-town detective must find him before he catches her.After receiving a batch of photographs of missing women and discovering her face imposed on one of the victim's picture, Aislinn MacFarland realizes the serial killings taking place are personally directed toward her. When the FBI steps in, and Agent Andrew Wayne is assigned to protect her, Linn balks, determined to solve the crimes with the help of her partner.When a witness points a finger at Linn's partner as being the killer, Linn and Drew race against time to prove the other detective's innocence and catch the man known as The Photographer before more women are killed.Romance rages, bullets fly, and a madman moves closer to his idea of the perfect woman.This suspenseful romantic thriller will have you reading with the lights on. By a best-selling, award-winning author. Get it now!WARNING: Mild language and suggestive themes

A news reporter with a crazed fan who will do anything to be a friend.Even kill. Marley Brooks is used to receiving fan mail but when letters from one particular fan take a dangerous turn and a coworker is killed, she leaves her job and flees to Misty Hollow. Her desire to hide doesn't come easy as even the people in this remote mountain town recognize her. The letters continue, and Marley enlists the help of local farmer, Dirk Mason, former military police. Dirk has a job to do and that's it. He'd be the reporter's bodyguard, but would not allow himself to fall for the seemingly helpless woman. Marley is anything but helpless. A fact proven as the danger escalates. Is there nowhere to hide? Will Marley and Dirk escape a fan who always seems to be one step ahead of them?

She killed a man.Now his family wants revenge.The Civil War took everything from Ruth Stallings, except for her grandmother and sisters. Now without a home or funds, they take the White River as far as it will go and end up in Painted Bluff, Arkansas, a town populated mostly by men out looking for a wife.Sheriff John Powell wants nothing to do with the pretty women or the trouble they bring. Especially when a gang of marauders show up looking for Ruth. Can Ruth and John overcome their differences and find love?Grab this heart-warming historical romance by best-selling, award-winning author.

Wilhemina Jackson, widowed mother of two, answers an advertisement in the newspaper for a sheriff in Wild Horse Pass, Montana. She uses the name Willie Jack in order to disguise her identity as a woman and soon receives a telegram saying she's hired for the job. Along with her children, mother, and a giant of a dog, she loads up the wagon and makes the long ride from Kansas.Wild Horse Pass is a picturesque town in the mountains with high standards and no law. The people are surprised to see a woman arrive as their sheriff, but are so desperate for someone to enforce the law, they decide to let her stay after she proves to them what a good shot she is with a rifle. All the former male sheriffs have always moved on to bigger and better pastures: especially since the town's people consider the sheriff's business their own and have no qualms about saying so.Thomas Miller, livery owner and blacksmith, is ready for a sheriff to step in and take over law enforcement for the vigilantes, but he's not excited about the arrival of a leather-wearing, split-skirt, woman sheriff. Especially one pretty enough to grace a tea room back east.No matter how quaint the town looks, Wild Horse Pass is a wild and dangerous place with many secrets. The folks may seem quirky, eccentric, and God-fearing, but their nosiness causes plenty of problems and feuds, despite the local pastor's and Tom's attempts to lead them down the right path.Can Willie and Tom lay aside their differences to find out what really matters?

Revenge is not always sweet.Can their love survive a feud between mountain people and the moonshiners who are determined to take away all they hold dear?Phoebe Lillie grows worried when her Pa doesn't return after what she thought was a routine hunting trip. Then, the new handsome schoolteacher arrives in Pine Ridge and starts wanting to make changes with his city ways. She resents his attentions, wanting only to find her Pa. When her and the teacher stumble across an illegal whiskey still, they are thrust into a feud that threatens to tear them, and the Ozark mountain hollow, apart. Then Phoebe is subjected to a horrible attack. Revenge fills her soul. Can God bring her out of her suffocating need for revenge before she loses Jacob's love?Jacob Wright, takes the job of schoolteacher in Pine Ridge, after his job in law enforcement results in an innocent woman's untimely death. He's sworn never to draw his gun on another living person. He doesn't expect his new job to put him in the middle of a feud straight out of the wild west. Jacob must choose between his resolve and the life of the woman he loves.Set during the Depression in the Ozark mountains, this story is sure to please readers of both historical and romantic suspense. Full of grace, forgiveness, and redemption, it still has plenty of danger for the most avid suspense fan.

Can a woman find her worth in something other than gold?Can a man learn that some things are out of his control?CHARITY O'CONNELL receives a minimum of five marriage proposals a day from dirty miners and old men. When her pa drowned after being pinned in the creek by a fallen tree, Charity took up laundering to make ends meet. Especially after her gambling father lost every cent he ever made. Then, she receives a marriage proposal from handsome Gabriel Williams after Charity saves his daughter from being trampled, and Charity believes he's the answer to her prayer. Now, she can cook and clean for one man and his two children. No more leering glances or ribald comments. GABRIEL WILLIAMS admires her spirit and believes she's the answer to hisprayer.Gabe and Charity agree to a marriage in name only, although Charity is upset that no man worth his salt wants her for anything more than a bedfellow and when she does find a man she could see herself making a life with, he isn't interested in anything more than someone to watch his children, and he's a gambler to boot. By the beginning of the following spring, if both parties are in agreement, they'll annul the marriage and part ways.Neither expects love to interfere with their plans or for God to intervene with a plan of His own.

Head to Oregon......with no husband and five children?Married less than a week, Delicious (Delly) Williams, watches her new husband die, leaving her to raise his five children all under the age of thirteen. He also left her a deed to property in Oregon. His dying wish...for Delly to get the deed and the children to his brother in order for them to be protected from the man who wants their land, at any cost.Zeke Williams wants to marry Delly in order to keep her safe. Another marriage is the last thing Delly wants.Can these two come together and forge a love and a new life in an untamed land?

Social media can be a real killer!A small Ozark town is not as innocent as it seems. Imagine watching the murder of someone you know happen live on THEIR social media. There's a killer preying on young women and he has the new sheriff in his sight. Sheriff Sharlene Camenetti loves her town and her job. she's determined to prove herself in a job dominated by men, but a brutal killer has different plans. When women's murders are filmed and posted on their social media, suspects range from strangers to family members. When handsome Arkansas Federal Bureau of Investigations Agent Everis Hayes arrives to help in the investigation, Shar has more to prove to herself than her ability to catch a cold-blooded killer and save the women of Highland Springs. With a killer who has a motive will she succeed before she becomes the next victim? This suspense thriller is sure to keep you up at night. By NYT and Amazon best-selling and award-winning author. ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿WARNING: contains violence.

Girls are disappearing from Highland Springs without a trace. Sharlene Camenetti faces her biggest challenge yet as sheriff. There's a new church in town that believes the world is coming to end and they are looking for strong people like Sheriff Camenetti and Deputy Hayes to join them. Shar and Everis enter into a diabolical community and face a formidable foe who will do anything to see his vision of a new world fulfilled. Absolutely anything. Even hold a sheriff hostage until she says yes. This suspense thriller concludes the Highland Springs series and is sure to keep you reading with the light on. By a best-selling, award-winning author. WARNING: Contains violence

Children are disappearing from Highland Springs.Evil once again stalks the small Ozark town of Highland Springs. This time, Sheriff Shar Camenetti and FBI agent Everis Hayes are pitted against a damaged villain who believes they are saving those they take from a life of poverty and neglect. It's a race against losing what Camenetti and Hayes hold dear or catching an evil that walks among them.Can they protect the ones they love against a woman who seems to have help everywhere? Can no one in Highland Springs be trusted?A story sure to keep you up late reading by best-selling, award-winning author. ¿WARNING: Contains violence and child abduction.

Can they run fast enough?A cross-country road trip turns into a nightmare run for their lives.By Amazon, and ECPA best-selling and award-winning authorWidowed and broke, Rachel Kent collects her two children, packs up their belongings, and heads across the Ozarks to stay with her parents. They stop for the night at a newly opened campground, then take a short hike. The three return to find the other occupants of the campground murdered.They flee the campsite and stumble upon a ranger's cabin, where they enlist the help of handsome, former-Army Ranger, Wesley Ward, who informs them a survivalist group laid claim to the mountain.Only God can help them now.Can a man who wants only to escape his past and be left alone and a woman damaged by life forge a love that survives a flight through the Ozark Mountains?

Did she run over that man?Stranded...Amazon, and ECPA best-selling and award-winning authorLacey Baxter knows her uncle killed her aunt and she is out to prove it! When she flees her home, she almost runs over and kills DEA agent John Canyon, who is out to get justice for his brother's death, while raising his orphaned niece.When they discover they're after the same group of men, the two band together against overwhelming odds to bring down a corrupt man set on ruling their small town.John and Lacey are on a collision course with evil and must rely on not only each other, but on God to save a town and bring justice.Can they survive a snowy ambush?

A new job as nanny turns deadly.By Amazon, and ECPA best-selling and award-winning authorDarcie Thayer needs to find what her late husband hid before she is killed. The package may be her only means of survival. She accepts a job as nanny to a best-selling author in hopes of having the time to continue her search in the last place she ever thought she would go back to. Her hometown.After his unfaithful wife's death, York Wardell has sworn off women and lost his muse. He hopes hiring a nanny for his two children will allow him the time to meet deadlines. He doesn't expect his life to be turned upside by a sprite of a girl with a chip on her shoulder who thrusts his family into danger.Can Darcie and York, both hurting souls, flee the ruthless killers following them and rely on God to heal their pain?

Nowhere to run.The seas grow rough when a cruise photographer is targeted for murder.By Amazon, and ECPA best-selling and award-winning authorAfter a painful breakup, Molly Nicholson accepts a job as a cruise ship photographer. As she is taking photos of passengers arriving to board the ship, she accidentally snaps a picture of a murder. Her dream job turns into a nightmare as she tries to stay alive amidst the beauty of Hawaii.A handsome detective on medical leave volunteers to be her bodyguard until the killer is caught. Can their blooming romance survive murder on the high seas?

She'll do everything it takes to save her son...... even marry a stranger.Jocelyn Nielson is on the run from a man involved in selling children. When a man shows up on her doorstep, claiming to be her knight in shining armor, she's reluctant to trust him. After all, memories are returning, and they are exposing things best left buried in the past.Conley Hook, private detective, is determined to protect Jocelyn and her son at all costs. Even if it means his life.Together, the two must learn to trust God and each other in their quest to save the Captured Innocent.

Marilu Hutchins wakes up one morning realizing the man next to her is not her husband.That awareness is the beginning to ten years of lost memories returning.One of which leads her to believe she is a paid assassin.As she struggles with the realization of who she is and what she was, she begins a search for her daughter. Things are complicated when she runs into Brad Morrison, the undercover agent who is the brother to the man Marilu had been hired to kill. Together, the two go on the run to prove that all is not as it seems and Marilu is nothing more than a Mistaken Assassin.Can she let go of her fear and uncertainty to let God's will prevail?

A blast from the past she wished would have stayed gone.A secret club out for vengeance.Right before Christmas, Shelby Hart is visited by the man who ditched her at the altar. It seems he wants the expensive gifts he'd given her to give to his new fiancé. Unfortunately for him, Shelby sold them. When the man shows up dead in a bed of poinsettia's, Shelby is thrust reluctantly into a group of women who call themselves the Second Mistress Club.Convinced that one of them killed the philandering man, Shelby sets out to find a killer and gets a Christmas surprise.A delightful Christmas cozy mystery to warm your heart by a best-selling, award-winning author.

Shelby Hart and her sidekick of quirky family members and friends are at it again!This time, no one in Shady Acres are what they seem.The seedy side of the community comes to light when a seemingly good girl's dirty lifestyle is revealed, and someone kills her for her secrets. Wanting justice served for a woman no one deems worthy of spending too much time investigating her death, Shelby takes matters into her own hands.From a mystery maze to underground tunnels, Shelby and her family must catch a killer before they become the next victim.Another fun mystery romp from a best-selling, award-winning author.

Poison plants in the garden.A new detective on the scene.Everyone is a suspect!When poisonous foliage begins appearing in Shelby Hart's garden, and a resident of Shady Acres winds up dead, Shelby sets off to clear her reputation as a gardener. Hard to do with a broken foot, a meddling office manager, and a head chef who is as crusty as week old bread. To top things off, a handsome new detective comes on scene more determined than the others to keep Shelby from sticking her nose where it doesn't belong.Another fun small town cozy mystery by a best-selling, award-winning author.

Shelby Hart is ready to try getting married again.To a man who won't leave her at the altar.Problem is...her mother is a suspect in a crime.The other problem is...there's been another murder and newly licensed, private investigator Shelby is hired to use her skills to clear her mother's name. As payment, her grandmother vows a gift that Shelby cannot receive.Come along as Shelby and the gang plan a wedding and catch a killer in this last book of the Shady Acres series. A wedding cozy mystery to leave you smiling by a best-selling award-winning author.

Who said flowers weren't dangerous?Why can't Shelby find a job that doesn't include out-of-control children or murder? She isn't equipped to find a killer...or is she?Ditched at the altar, Shelby Hart tosses down her bouquet, quits her job, and accepts a position as gardener and event coordinator at an upscale retirement community. Her first day on the job results with a dead body in the greenhouse under the potted orchids and with her as the prime suspect!Toss in a handsome handyman, quirky characters, and a flirtatious grandma and the fun never stops.This humorous small town cozy mystery is sure to please fans who enjoy a good laugh and a fun mystery.

Trouble just won't leave Shelby Hart alone.It follows her like a cloud of doom.She's in her greenhouse, minding her own business, when the next thing she knows she's lying on the ground looking up. Someone tried to poison her. Right after she vowed not to snoop into murders anymore.But this killer isn't like the others.This one is a friend with a dark past. A past interwoven with the death of Shelby's father five years ago. Come along as Shelby and her quirky group of friends and relatives work to outrace a killer and find justice.Revenge is sweet in the fifth book of the Shady Acres series. Come solve the case with Shelby and friends. By best-selling, award-winning author.

The Seven Deadly SinsOne dedicated detectiveA town in perilSomeone is making people pay for their sins and they're targeting Detective Harper Scranton and Special Agent Liam McConnell. When a wealthy resort owner is killed and a message left for Harper, it's time to receive some help. She isn't the only one receiving messages. So is FBI Special Agent Liam McConnell.What they don't know is that the man behind the messages has a diabolical reason for bringing the two of them together, and he won't stop until he gets what he wants. What he wants is for them to pay and the price is very high.Can Harper and Liam stop a madman before he kills through the seven deadly sins or will they suffer for something they had no control over?

She never thought she'd return to Misty Hollow.She didn't think he'd still be there.Now, he thinks she's come back to him and will do anything to claim her.Shiloh Sloan, the girl from the wrong side of the bridge. The girl shunned because of accusations she'd made against the town's star football player. Now, she's returned to teach the children of the people who had turned their backs on her in hopes of showing them how wrong they were.But, he is still there, and he thinks she's come back to him.Deputy Rowan Reynolds is drawn into Shiloh's ever-increasing trouble. He'll do whatever is in his power to protect her. But when his daughter is threatened, this single father must rethink his priorities.Can Shiloh and Rowan convince the town that the man they all loved is, in fact, a monster? Or will he win again? This time the stakes are higher than Shiloh simply leaving town.

Diamonds, cash, and a bloody gardening glove.Summer Meadows went to church not to find God, but to hunt for a killer.While transplanting the rosebush her church's handsome greeter, Ethan Banning, inadvertently killed, Summer and Ethan discover a hidden stash of diamonds, a rusty can full of cash, and a bloody-gardening glove. This discovery sets Summer and her candy-making aunt on a search for a killer.As Summer gets closer to the truth-not only of the theft but of her true feelings for Ethan-the diamond thief hatches a plan to hush the feisty sleuth. Enjoy this first book in a Southern small town cozy mystery by a best-selling, award-winning author.

It was an addiction, really.One she couldn't kick through no fault of her own.It wasn't CJ Turley's fault that someone stuck her dog, Caper, in a canoe in the middle of the lake. She also couldn't help that Caper kept bringing her diamonds from a recent jewel heist in town.Any homebody seeking adventure would do the same thing, right?. Gather your gumshoeing friends and find a jewel thief. What could possibly go wrong?The small town Tiny House community of Heavenly Acres is thrust into yet another mystery that might be CJ's undoing.Grab this frolicking small town cozy mystery by a best-selling, award-winning author.

Summer and Ethan head to Maui for their honeymoon.The sun doesn't set before they find themselves thrust into another mystery and Summer's family arrive to vacation with the honeymooners.This time, Ethan is more than willing to help Summer gather the clues, since the sooner the culprit is caught, the sooner they can get down to honeymoon business. Alas, it's not to be as they discover that Summer's uncle is one of the very people being targeted by a scam artist and a bipolar beauty. Set against the backdrop of beautiful Hawaii, tour the great island of Maui with Summer and the gang to catch a murderous crook.

Missing diamonds...againA snooty cat with a penchant for trouble...The last thing she wanted was another mystery to solve.It's Christmas, CJ Turley's favorite holiday only something hovers over the festivities. A cat's collar disappears and it seems as if Caper, CJ's darling pup, might be the culprit. It's easier to believe than suspecting the owners of the cat from stealing from themselves.Hilarity and mayhem follow CJ and her friends as they try to solve the theft. All CJ really wants is to have a nice holiday with a Christmas party no one will forget.