Genre
Stories driven by danger, pursuit and a ticking clock.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.