This is a true account of a life well-lived. Sena is 98 years old and actively participates in yoga class, water aerobics, the 90's Club, sings beautifully and plays the guitar and the accordion. She still loves to entertain audiences, something she has been doing her whole life. And she writes wonderful poems, stories and songs.

Sena's Light: A true story

Arts & Photography

Oroz, Joyce

Music

Independently published

Josephine Stuart, a fifty-year-old widow, is blessed and cursed with an overactive curiosity, a strong sense of right and wrong and a willingness to put herself on the line for her friends. Josephine has been hired to paint murals in the secluded Munger mansion, located at the top of a wooded mountain. Certain local reprobates have their reasons for wanting the Mungers to leave. Accidents, fires and the death of a forest ranger have everyone on edge. Josephine's curiosity drives her down the mountain, into the world of illegal activities and nefarious characters. Her situation becomes dire - no way to escape. One captor has a knife, the other has a rifle. Can she save herself and her friends?

Secure the Ranch

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

Outskirts Press

Josephine teams up with her Aunt Clara to solve Joey Gianelli"s murder. The elderly man was found dead on the railroad tracks six years after he supposedly died in an airplane crash. But there's more trouble coming down the tracks, headed straight for Josephine and Aunt Clara.

Beetles in the Boxcar: A Josephine Stuart Mystery (The Josephine Stuart Mystery Series)

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Sheriff's Deputies investigate the death of a man found on the railroad tracks, but Josephine and Aunt Clara are impatient, wanting to know what happened to their friend, Joey Gianelli. He was found dead on the railroad tracks in the dead of winter. As the women follow clues, a killer sets them up for a deadly ride in a cold boxcar. And then things get worse.

Beetles in the Boxcar (The Josephine Stuart Mystery Series)

Sheriff's Deputies investigate the death of a man found on the railroad tracks, but Josephine and Aunt Clara are impatient and want to know what happened to their friend, Joey Gianelli. As the women follow the clues, a killer follows them.

An accountant working at the Thornton Therapy Center dies from a fall down the stairs. Josephine has been hired to paint murals at the Center and happens to be the first person on the scene. The dying man indicates he was struck from behind. The out-raged and ever-curious Josephine finds an email convincing her that someone she knows is involved in a land-grab scheme that includes murder. The killer realizes Josephine knows the truth, lures her to a cabin in Tahoe and is prepared to shut her up for good.

Read My Lipstick: A Josephine Stuart Mystery (The Josephine Stuart Mystery Series)

Grady Ghost Has A Secret

Children's Books

Animals

An explosion in the middle of the night plummets local muralist Josephine Stuart out of bed and down the street to determine which of her neighbors’ homes in sleepy Aromas, California, has been destroyed. When she discovers fire trucks and police vehicles surrounding the Hooley home, she fears that the elderly brother/sister residents have both been killed in the blast. That is, until the next morning when she discovers ninety-year-old Emmett Hooley asleep on her couch. Turns out, Emmett wasn’t at home when his house was blown to bits, he was in a secluded shack behind it where he built cuckoo clocks. The old man is disoriented, weak, and worried his sister Hilda is dead, so Josephine takes him under her wing. Slowly and patiently, Jo tries to find out what happened––to the Hooley house and to Emmett’s sister. When the police confirm Hilda’s demise and report evidence of arson, Jo and Emmett compile a list of possible suspects among Emmett’s friends and relatives, many of whom apparently have a strong motive for murder as Emmett is extremely wealthy. When Jo follows Emmett to a cuckoo clock convention, their adventures take a dangerous turn, and Jo’s attempts to find Hilda’s killer put both her and Emmett in grave danger.

Cuckoo Clock Caper: A Josephine Stuart Mystery

Cozy Cat Press

Mario Portello is run over by a black sedan while sitting at his desk at Ralph’s Roller Rink. Josephine Stuart happens to be painting a mural at the rink the day he is rubbed out, making her the only witness to the hit-and-run event. Everyone assumes it’s an accident caused by an octogenarian with bi-focal vision and a lead foot. From what Josephine saw, however; she believes the hit was intentionally carried out by a shrewd killer. The police are slow to believe her theory. Mario’s family and acquaintances did not like him, but Josephine must look beyond dislike and find someone with a real motive for murder.

Roller Rubout: A Josephine Stuart Mystery

Bryndis Palmer, owner of The Neglected Word bookstore, invites her fourteen-year-old niece Frida to visit her so that the precocious, Jane Austen-loving young girl can accompany Bryn to the “Midwest Booklovers’ Convention” being held in nearby Saint Louis. Never mind that Bryn has just broken up with her on-again, off-again boyfriend Holt Furst, or that said boyfriend has suddenly disappeared from his apartment above her shop––possibly in a violent kidnapping. Bryndis dutifully heads to the airport to pick up Frida, only to discover that Frida has also disappeared––reportedly swooped up by a chauffeur and whisked away in a limousine. Who would kidnap her niece? Where could they have taken her? Where could Holt be? Brynn is an amateur sleuth from her childhood days of reading Nancy Drew mysteries, and she barges ahead with her own investigation, certain that the local police and the airport authorities will bungle the job, and fearing the wrath of her sister Lia if anything happens to Frida. Of course, Bryn doesn’t know that the disappearances of Holt and Frida are actually connected, and as she begins her search, a mystifying tale starts to unravel––introducing her to a host of strange characters, all more unusual than those in the murder mysteries she’s accustomed to reading. Along the way, she discovers that she herself is somehow at the center of it all, and swirling around her are other strange curiosities––a missing Bible, a famous frontier hero, and a hidden secret code. Will she find Frida? And Holt? How does it all connect? And how is Bryn involved? It will all be revealed in CHASING THE CODEX. Here’s a different kind of book: This cozy mystery was written by 24 of Cozy Cat Press’s 40-some authors, with each author penning their own individual chapter or chapters. How did we make this happen? Easy! We started at the top of the alphabet with Amy Beth Arkawy and moved down the alphabet through Diane Weiner (with a few detours along the way). None of the authors had any idea where the next author would take the story; they only knew what they wanted to do with the characters and the plot in their own chapter. We think you’ll find the results amazing––and exciting! So, be prepared for quite a ride, as we go CHASING THE CODEX!

Chasing the Codex: A Mystery by 24 Authors

Rose, Sharon

Pivato, Emma

Seedorf, Julie

Selcer, David

Vido, Jennifer

Weiner, Diane

Magruder, Owen

Reed, Drema

Reese, Joe and Pam

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Sena's Light: A true story

Secure the Ranch

Beetles in the Boxcar: A Josephine Stuart Mystery (The Josephine Stuart Mystery Series)

Beetles in the Boxcar (The Josephine Stuart Mystery Series)

Beetles in the Boxcar: A Josephine Stuart Mystery (The Josephine Stuart Mystery Series)

Read My Lipstick: A Josephine Stuart Mystery (The Josephine Stuart Mystery Series)

Grady Ghost Has A Secret

Cuckoo Clock Caper: A Josephine Stuart Mystery

Roller Rubout: A Josephine Stuart Mystery

Chasing the Codex: A Mystery by 24 Authors