Mainstream Mystery Anthology

The Mystery of the Green Mist includes a delightful assortment of stories, from cozy to creepy, by ten talented authors

The Clue in the Crumbling Cottage by Jo A Hiestand

A teenaged Brenna Taylor gets involved in a murder investigation while on a camping trip with her Girl Guide troop.

Reservoir of Death by Sylvia Nickels

Maddy Hart's childhood home was lost to nature's floodwaters. After she married she and her husband moved to another safer state so she thought. But water, this time from a manmade reservoir which she opposed iin vain, engulfed her home once more. When Maddy's daughter, Sissy, witnesses the murder of the man responsible for the reservoir, Maddy finds herself fighting for her own and Sissy's life.

The House on Grays Prairie Road by Sally Love

The place was so overgrown with vines, volunteer trees and weeds, Tom could hardly make out a house. He tested each step before resting his hundred and eighty-seven pounds on pine. He juggled the rusty latch and carefully pushed with his shoulder and the steel toe of his work boot. Sunlight followed him as he stepped inside and closed the door.

The Scent of Blood by Cherri Galbiati

Lisa Linder left her home in Houston with her Cadaver Search Dog, Norggin, to take a much needed vacation after finding a five-year old murdered in a pedophile’s house on Christmas morning. She desperately needed the break, only to find herself caught up in another horrid investigation when she arrived at her best friend’s Bed and Breakfast, in Winooski, Vermont. This time, death was camouflaged as a snowman.

Mystery of the Green Mist by Linda Houle

Jocelyn enjoyed ghost hunting, especially in cemeteries. When the paper covered a story about a weird green misty glow in a local graveyard, Jocelyn knew she and her friend Tracey would be trekking out that night for another adventure…

Deleting Dennis by Pauline Baird Jones

Capri Hinkenlooper thought her name—and Monday mornings—were the worst things in her life, but then her fellow editor and all around slimy guy gets deleted with her letter opener. On the upside, the two homicide detectives investigating the murder are seriously cute...

The Mystery of Moonstone Manor by Randy Rohn

“They eat little kids up there.” Kristin Malmberg isn’t going to let some silly old urban legends keep her from selling band candy to the inhabitants of Moonstone Manor. No, they don’t eat little kids, but the people who live in Moonstone Manor have secrets which are much more twisted and terrible. They entangle Kristin and her pal Kurt in a web of intrigue and danger.

Between Friends by D. Nathan Hilliard

Pat, Les, Parker, and Cotton are four friends who made it through WWII alive. Now Cotton is dead, and the other three have to find the killer before
the secret Cotton carried destroys them all.

Death Hereafter by Jacqueline Seewald

Laura Norris is nervous about meeting her boyfriend’s mother, the famous Broadway actress, Sigrid Wallace. But what was meant to be a weekend of pleasure at Sigrid’s summer home turns into something quite the opposite when Sigrid is killed. Is it a case of a burglary gone wrong or something much more insidious?

Trust No One by Morgan St. James

When antique importer Carrie Rutledge met Hollywood dealmaker John Martin, she found herself traveling full speed ahead in movieland's fast lane. She also found herself in a whole heap of trouble. John's suggestion that she move into his Malibu beach home was only part of his plan…the rest of his diabolical scheme could get her killed. With no escape, she did the only thing she could. She devised a flawless plan of retribution. But then, is there really any such thing as flawless?