Craven County Mystery Series
Craven County Line
Book Three in the Craven County Mysteries
In the blink of an eye. . .
Quinn Sterling – part-time investigator and owner of Sterling Banks Farms-expected the day to go well. Expected all of Craven County to put in an appearance at the much anticipated, annual Fourth of July celebration on the farm grounds. Expected the temperature would hit hot-enough-to-peel-the-paint-off-a-pickup-truck hot. What she did not expect was the appearance of a long-lost uncle and new cousin.
And she never expected the county sheriff to question her childhood friend, deputy Ty Jackson, as a suspect in the murder of his ex-wife in the next county over. When Ty is carted off by his boss and in front of his eight-year-old son Cole, Quinn realizes that she may be the only one willing to believe in his innocence regardless of damning evident to the contrary.
With murder out of her county, Quinn has no contacts to lean on. She has no standing in the investigation. What she can do is make sure Ty has the best defense attorney in the state while she finds a way to prove what her heart knows.
Even if that means crossing every line she’s ever drawn for herself in pursuit of the real killer.
Burned in Craven
Book Two in the Craven County Mysteries
Who knew school board politics could be so toxic, but when private investigator Quinn Sterling is hired by a board member for domestic issues, Quinn learns firsthand how emboldened and nasty a board can be. However, an impromptu drop-in at a board meeting throws Quinn for a loop when she finds Sterling Banks’ Plantation foreman, and her childhood friend, Jonah, standing front and center against them . . . over land for an elementary school. Land of an 80-year-old neighbor that adjoins Quinn’s farm.
But then politics turns to greed, and greed to arson, and arson to murder. The cases pits family against family, neighbor against neighbor, but it’s when bodies drop and violence escalates against her and her own that Quinn decides she knows more than the law . . . and takes actions accordingly. This politics has got to stop before more people die.
Murdered in Craven
Book One in the Craven County Mysteries, introducing PI Quinn Sterling
The last heir of the oldest family of the oldest county in the state of South Carolina . . . Quinn Sterling is heiress to Craven County’s 3,000-acre pecan enterprise . . . and a private investigator. She wouldn’t have been either if someone hadn’t murdered her father. A murder that her sheriff uncle botched, allowing the unknown killer to run free six years later. An FBI agent unable to let loose of her father’s unsolved murder, Quinn leaves the Bureau to manage the farm, doing PI work on the side to scratch that itch.
But then a fellow PI is found murdered in her county, and the daughter of a Charleston real estate mogul hires her to take his place hunting for her missing beau. Nobody is who they appear to be, but this is Quinn’s county, and with an inept uncle at the helm, Quinn deems the responsibility hers to solve the case. But when the case crosses onto Sterling Banks Plantation . . . and it sucks in her childhood friends, two boys, now men, who worship her and deeply understand the county and everything Sterling Banks means.
Quinn draws deep into her legacy, her training, and her loyalty to Craven County to dig into crimes current and past, using all within her power. . . even if it means capitalizing on her uncle and the financial, historical, and impressive power that is Sterling Banks.