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.
Genre
Mystery & Crime
Amateur sleuths, police procedurals and puzzles built on fair-play clues.
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.
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.
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 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 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.