A Hole in One
Published by Barking Rain Press in March 2018, the second Glass Dolphin Mystery sends antiques dealer Arabella Carpenter and partner Emily Garland after a killer when a stray tee shot at a charity golf tournament lands beside a body.
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Verified records of former Barking Rain Press titles
Bluffing Is Murder
Quaker linguistics professor Lauren Rousseau finds her insurance agent dead and becomes a suspect in a summer mystery set in coastal Massachusetts. Published by Barking Rain Press in 2014 under the name Tace Baker; reissued in 2020 as Murder on the Bluffs.
Cabin Fever
First published by Barking Rain Press in April 2014, this Seamus McCree mystery strands a financial-crimes investigator at his Upper Peninsula cabin with a nameless, freezing woman and the armed people hunting her. Reissued by Wolf's Echo Press in 2017.
Eine Kleine Murder
Aspiring conductor Cressa Carraway goes to her grandmother's lake cabin in rural Illinois to finish a symphony and finds Gram drowned. When a second death happens at the same spot, she suspects murder. Published by Barking Rain Press in 2013.
Exit Stage Left
Megan O'Day, bound to the centuries-old vampire Geoffrey Drake, must face his past and the advances of his brother Alexander after Geoffrey is taken from her. Book two of Catherine Russell's Stage Chronicles, published by Barking Rain Press.
Postponing Armageddon
A medieval fantasy in which Matthias, a long-lived thirteenth apostle, carries twelve scrolls across Europe toward Glastonbury Tor. Shortlisted in manuscript for the 2011 Terry Pratchett First Novel Award; published by Barking Rain Press in 2013.
Seven Days to Goodbye
Trina has one beach week left with Sydney, the service puppy she has raised, while her friendship with her best friend wobbles. The first Trina Ryan novel, published by Barking Rain Press in 2014 and aimed by its author at readers in grades four to eight.
Shadow Notes
Clara Montague comes home to Connecticut convinced her mother is in danger, then sees her jailed for killing her therapist. The first Clara Montague mystery, published by Barking Rain Press in 2016 and reissued by Woodhall Press in 2021.
Skeletons in the Attic
Callie Barnstable inherits a house in Marketville, along with a condition: live there for a year and find out what happened to her mother. First published by Imajin Books in 2016; Barking Rain Press published the second edition in December 2017.
Slip Sliding Away
Published by Barking Rain Press in March 2014, Sean Mulcahy's first book follows Michael Reilly, a jobless, indebted college graduate living with his father and stepmother, as his brother's redeployment to Iraq pulls him toward a reckoning.
Speaking of Murder
A Quaker linguistics professor at a small Massachusetts college looks into the murder of a gifted student. First published by Barking Rain Press in 2012 under the pen name Tace Baker, and reissued under Edith Maxwell's name by Beyond the Page in 2020.
The Celibate Succubus
Published by Barking Rain Press in July 2013 and promoted as YA fantasy, this novel follows Delilah Vincentio, a sixteen-year-old succubus who has turned her back on Hell, as a covert Catholic team sends her into a Satanic cult in Pittsburgh and then into high school.
The Chronocar
A present-day Chicago student builds a time machine from a forgotten early-1900s paper by physicist Simmie Johnson, the son of a slave, and travels to 1919, arriving at the time of the city's race riot. Published by Barking Rain Press in 2015; reissued by the author in 2019.
The Devil's Blues
Published by Barking Rain Press in February 2013, the second novel about blues harmonica players Mitty Andersen and Pete Bolden sets them against a violent paramilitary group as they try to clear a friend accused of bombing his own church.
The Girl Who Flew Away
When freshman Steffie Brenner's new neighbor vanishes in the woods, her older sister pressures her to keep quiet. Val Muller's young adult novel about secrets, sisters and addiction was published by Barking Rain Press in 2017.
The Hanged Man's Noose
First published by Barking Rain Press in July 2015, this amateur-sleuth mystery follows freelance journalist Emily Garland as opposition to a big-box development in Lount's Landing turns deadly. Book one of the Glass Dolphin Mysteries.
The Revolving Year
In Devonshire in 1999, 35-year-old Imogen Hearne faces her sister's cancer diagnosis and the loss of her rented cottage, then falls in love with her niece's fiancé. The author's first novel, published by Barking Rain Press in 2013.
The Scarred Letter
After Heather Primm exposes steroid use on her school's football team, she is attacked, a 'T' is carved into her face and she becomes an outcast. Val Muller's young adult update of The Scarlet Letter was published by Barking Rain Press in 2014.