Zee Angle
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Mystery ~ Romance ~ Suspense
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NOVELS (SERIES & SINGLES)
SERIES
Neka Zook Mysteries
Book 2
Book 3
Book 1
The Case for Neka Zook
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Welcome to Caption, Wisconsin. Home of Neka Zook, blogger and unsuspecting dog-sitter. When the beloved daughter of a local mechanic goes missing, the father seeks out Neka Zook, a local retiree with an odd little blog. Why Neka? Because a dream told him she could help.
​Can a woman who claims to have no expertise actually help this distraught father? He thinks so. After all, she writes about life and other oddities. As far as he is concerned, this is right up her alley.
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Neka Zook and the Biscuit Bonanza
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In the town of Caption, Wisconsin resides Neka Zook, a local retiree with an odd little blog. She is known around town in her late-model Subaru, especially by local law enforcement. She truly seeks nothing more out of life than to write her blog, enjoy her family and friends and tend to her yard and critters. But life for this retiree is anything but normal as trouble seems to always seek her out.
It isn't long before Neka is once again embroiled in a number of town mysteries, much to Detective Martin's displeasure, and one could have personally devastating consequences.
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Neka Zook and the Bernhardt Estate Mystery
Neka Zook is anything but a normal individual. She’s a retired mid-sixties woman who writes a blog titled Life and Other Oddities. She never thought this odd little blog would lead her years later to become somewhat of a town celebrity after bumbling her way into a number of the Caption County Sheriff’s Department’s cases and unexpectedly helping to solve them with absolutely no recognizable aptitude whatsoever…and often at the frustration of Detective Samuel Martin who is highly trained to solve the crimes within the community and who keeps butting heads with this interfering, stubborn, yet well-meaning retired woman who can’t seem to keep her nose out of the crime business.
It appears at the start of this year that Neka is a little bit wiser and determined to mind her own business. Detective Martin, who has been through all of Neka’s mishaps, is relieved to hear she is finally behaving herself. However, habits are hard to break for Neka Zook who looks at things from a slightly different perspective than others. When she hears of human remains found on an estate whose family she is well familiar with, once again she is up to her neck in an investigation she has no business being a part of…and like anyone unequipped to handle danger, she is headed for disaster on a case that will prove to be Detective Martin’s most challenging
Butt Busters
Book 1
Book 2
Extinguished
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When Butt Busters Women's Fitness Center owner, Stephanie Rharden, is discovered to have connections to a recent murder, Ketchum County's newest transplant is put on the case. An ex-California bodybuilder, Detective Taylor Sharkey brings to life all the bodybuilder magazines Stephanie drooled over in her youth. He proves to be an exciting distraction, plus a welcome buffer, when she faces off with the arrogant Graydon Masterton who has pestered her with unsolicited offers to buy out her thriving business. But lies and deceptions run deep in the little town of Gulch Ridge, Wisconsin, and prove harder to exhume than a corpse. Just when the Ketchum County Sheriff's Department appears to be at the top of its game and has zeroed in on the suspect, someone ups the ante. Suddenly, Ketchum County's finest are scrambling against time with all of their resources...for not even they could have predicted what would happen next.
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Shadows of You
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When Stephanie claims to have seen her dead lover watching her from a distance, her friends begin to wonder about her mental state after her harrowing ordeal last year. But Stephanie isn't daunted by their reactions. Headstrong and independent as always, she goes it alone determined to find him...or at least find evidence of him having been there. And she'll go to great lengths to meet that end. But what Stephanie doesn't yet realize is that she's not at all prepared for what she's about to discover...and maybe...that which died...is better left dead.
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Cantankerous is a term he would have applied to a bull, not to himself. Yet, Jack had become cantankerous. There was no denying it. Torn between a past and a future, and entangled in his "old-school" ways, Jack had become a tormented man. He needed to sever the past before he could pursue the future, and he didn't quite know how to go about it. But then he remembered the PI Graydon hired. If this PI could find his wife, he'd get the divorce he needed and pursue the woman he realized he had loved his whole life. But he never figured he'd have to compete with a ghost.
The Thorny Rose Mysteries
A MATTER OF CONVENIENCE (The Thorny Rose Mysteries, Book 1 - Prequel)
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You’ve met Marlee in A Matter of Chance as Sunny’s sidekick and best friend. Now you get Marlee’s story as she returns to the ranch for a visit only to wind up getting caught up in a mystery of her own.
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Marlee Letloff hasn’t seen her best friend, Sunny Brafford-Hawk, in nearly a year, ever since Sunny married an Arizona rancher and moved out of Riley, Wisconsin. So when Sunny invites Marlee to the ranch with a plus one, Marlee decides to bring along her theatrical cohort, Eddie. The trip runs aground when Sunny is found arguing with her disgruntled chauffeur. It isn’t long before mishaps start occurring around the ranch, leaving some to wonder who among them is trying to sabotage Sunny’s brand-new B&B endeavor. And while the powers that be are trying to solve this mystery, someone far away has already planned another, which proves miles don’t matter where Marlee Letloff is concerned in this prequel to The Thorny Rose Mysteries.
SINGLES
2014 ABNA Quarter Finalist!
A Matter of Chance
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Sunny Brafford kicked her lying, cheating husband out of her bed and out of her business. She is a little guarded now after that experience but who can blame her. She wants nothing to do with men on a personal level and thinks she has control of the reins of her life...until she wins a ranch vacation contest she never entered.
Imagine her surprise when she ends up in the middle of a ranch owned by one of Arizona's prize bachelors known as Elrod Huntington Hawk, a big man with an even bigger presence...as far-reaching as northern Wisconsin, where his sketched portrait has been secretly adorning Sunny's bedroom wall.
Twisted Roots
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Denver resident Shelby LuFont has a successful transcription job, a budding relationship with the sandy-haired computer systems analyst next door, and is haunted by her mother's disappearance over two years earlier. Why would her mother walk away from her successful real estate practice in northern Wisconsin without a word or a goodbye to her only daughter? With no evidence of foul play and her mother keeping up with the bills from various parts of the country, the sting of abandonment sinks in deeply. Yet, Shelby isn't ready to accept the Sheriff's Department's findings that this is stacking up to be a case of someone walking away from their current lifestyle to start another which, according to the law, isn't a crime. Shelby's unsure of what to do next...until she receives the cryptic phone call.
Mystery River
A stranger, who calls himself Gable, puts his life on the line in an ice-cold river running high and fast with spring runoff after witnessing a woman struck by a man and left to die a numbing, heartless death. With intention that is pure, selfless and urgent, Gable jumps into the river to save this flaming-haired beauty. However, neither he nor she will come out of this river the same as they went in.
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Mystery River
A springtime supernatural mystery.
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Texas Toast
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After six years in Hollywood making western movies, Garrett Jonas Swift returns home to Swiftwater Ranch to make good on a promise to his father. However, he never expected to find the ranch in total upheaval or learn that someone is stalking him via the printed page.
Garrett knows that whether in movies, books or families, things aren't always as they seem...so to get to the answers, he must dig a little deeper. But nothing could prepare him for what he is about to uncover!​
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A Slice of Heaven
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Morgan Chimes goes from plumbing warehouse secretary to newbie mountain woman in one day when she buys a small mountain ranch void of the creature comforts of home.
With determination unparalleled, Morgan works to get past the learning curve and claim her mountain-woman status amidst environmental conditions, an explosive rancher, strange occurrences and the legend of the mountain man who some claim is a spirit while others claim is a cockamamie yarn spread by the locals to keep strangers off of Switchback Mountain.
Come along with Morgan as she shares how unexpectedly her life, and her new community, changed after she purchased what the seller claimed was...A Slice of Heaven.