When Psychology Professor Pamela Barnes discovers her department's star researcher strangled to death in the computer lab, she's determined to find out who did it. Will an accidental recording of the murder allow Pamela to use her expertise in acoustics to identify the killer? A unique cozy mystery--set in the world of academia and high-stakes research--full of excitement, humor, and romance.

Sounds of Murder (Pamela Barnes Acoustic Mysteries)

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Rockwell, Patricia

Mystery

Cozy Cat Press

Lederhosen, accordions and a dead body! Coffee roaster Jennifer Penny was astonished when she walked into her coffee booth the second day of Hermann, Minnesota’s Polka Daze Festival. A dead body lay under the table! Jennifer, Megan Murphy and Sister Bernadine, the only working nun in town, have been friends since second grade. When Sister Bernadine becomes the chief suspect, Jennifer gets on the bandwagon to find the real murderer and prove the innocence of her unjustly suspected friend. While unearthing clues, Jennifer dodges the demands of her soon to be ex-husband and the advances of a sexy cop and a flirtatious butcher. She’ll need more than a double espresso to stay on her toes and solve this mystery. TOO DEAD TO DANCE is filled with excitement, fun, and suspense, along with charming details drawn from the world of hometown festivals and craft fairs.

Too Dead To Dance

Diane Morlan

Who shot the disk jockey on air? No one saw the killer, but many heard the murder!Local police are mystified, so they ask Psychology professor and acoustics expert Pamela Barnes to assist them in investigating the crime. Can she determine who shot disk jockey and cult music hero Black Vulture just by listening to the radio station’s audio recording of the crime? And how does this crime figure in to the impending death of a wealthy carpet manufacturer hundreds of miles away? Or the driven behavior of his conscientious son who is keeping a very important secret? Unbeknownst to Pamela, another thread of this strange mystery is about to unravel. Will she be able to solve it before another victim is claimed? FM FOR MURDER is Patricia Rockwell’s second in her acoustic mystery series featuring Pamela Barnes. In it, Rockwell re-introduces readers to a feisty heroine, who doesn’t let her academic duties and position prevent her from fighting for justice. Pamela fights crime with the tools she knows best—sound waves.

FM For Murder: A Pamela Barnes acoustic mystery (Pamela Barnes Acoustic Mysteries)

Suicide or Murder? When a spring snowstorm buries quaint little Provincetown, on the very tip of Cape Cod, and a body is found at the foot of the famous Pilgrim Monument, the police assume that miserly town curmudgeon Edwin Snow III jumped to his death. But spunky British newcomer—innkeeper Liz Ogilvie-Smythe—suspects something else—murder.  Can this dedicated cozy mystery reader and wanna-be sleuth convince the police chief to re-open the case?  Will searching for clues together cement a growing romance between Liz and handsome Irish cop James Finneran?   As Liz detects, she is amazed at what she uncovers—scattered human bones, long-kept secrets, smoldering grudges, a mysterious question of paternity, and ghosts.   It’s almost enough to send this British lady back to jolly old England.

A Deadly Snow Fall

Gallant-Simpson, Cynthia

Why would spry senior Bob Weiderley suddenly faint and fall into a coma after winning a game of Bingo? After all, he was the most physically fit of all the men at the Happy Haven Assisted Living Facility (although there weren’t many men at HH because women outnumbered them four to one). It was just very suspicious. That’s why Essie Cobb and her friends and fellow residents--Opal, Marjorie, and Fay--decided to investigate. Was it possible that someone was out to get the friendly old gentleman? Maybe it was Violet, Happy Haven’s director, trying to cover up her shady past. Or Sue, the activities director, whose behavior was unusual to say the least. Maybe it was one of the three women who sat at Bob’s regular table in the dining room. Or the mysterious man who had recently sent Bob a startling letter. Essie Cobb is determined to find out—and she’s not going to let her age (90) or her various age-related infirmities hold her back. Welcome to Happy Haven. If you thought most elderly residents of assisted living facilities spent their days watching television and sitting in the sun, you haven’t met Essie Cobb, senior sleuth, and her three mystery-solving buddies. These four elderly ladies have insatiable curiosity, unending concern for their fellow man (especially their fellow ‘man’), and energy and determination that some might find unusual for women in their 80’s and 90’s. They may not be able to get around as fast as youngsters in their 60’s, or navigate that Interstate—Internet (or whatever that computer thing is), but they can solve a mystery. And they’re starting with this one.

Bingoed: An Essie Cobb Senior Sleuth Mystery (Essie Cobb Senior Sleuth Mysteries)

Sex! Knives! Voice Mail Messages!Who stabbed the philandering football coach in the back? Was it one of the three women who left romantic voice mail messages on the cell phone found next to his body in the motel room?The police don’t have a clue. None of the coach’s family, friends, or colleagues recognize the voices of the unidentified women--and probable mistresses. Who could they be? This sounds like a case for Pamela Barnes, local Psychology professor, acoustics expert, and sometimes amateur sleuth. Can she identify the three women (and potential murder suspects) from just the sound of their voices on the voice mail?Who are these mystery women and how did the popular coach manage to conduct affairs with all of them unbeknownst to everyone around him? And how did he keep his trio of lovers from finding out about each other—or did he? It’s a tangled romantic web that ultimately led to murder and Pamela Barnes is determined to figure it out. Read Patricia Rockwell’s new cozy mystery VOICE MAIL MURDER.

Voice Mail Murder (A Pamela Barnes Acoustic Mystery)

Is it possible to put aside years of investigative instincts and habits to live quietly in a retirement home? Is it possible to redefine who you are at the age of eighty? These are the questions that Bess seeks to answer in GUMSHOE GRANNY INVESTIGATES. When she arrives at the Honey Hills Retirement Center, Bess Bullock has every intention of occupying her days with simple activities like reading and idle conversation. However, Bess begins to notice that even at a retirement home, her instincts for noticing the “little mysteries in life” won’t allow her to live as quietly as her fellow residents. Whether it is a thieving therapy dog, a philandering husband with a touch of dementia, or a baby’s cry in the middle of the night, Bess is drawn into each mystery with the same curiosity she had fifty years earlier as the first woman to work for her town’s police force.

Gumshoe Granny Investigates: A Bess Bullock Retirement Home Mystery

Boyer, Allen B.

The Happy Haven Assisted Living Facility is a home for senior citizens--not newborn babies. So, when one of the kitchen workers asks ninety-year-old resident Essie Cobb to secretly care for his missing co-worker's infant, she is flabbergasted, but determined. Along with her intrepid friends--Marjorie, Opal, and Fay--amateur sleuth Essie sets out to hide and protect the baby--and find his missing mother. Unfortunately, she isn't expecting to deal with exterminators, suspicious neighbors, virus outbreaks, and the snowstorm of the century. Luckily, Essie is one smart cookie, and if anyone can manage to reunite a mother and child right before Christmas--it's Essie.

Papoosed: An Essie Cobb Senior Sleuth Mystery (Essie Cobb Senior Sleuth Mysteries)

Old Beulah Henry slipped on the ice and died.  A terrible accident say the local police.  But why did Beulah leave her cabin without a coat? It was thirty below in Parson’s Cove.  Someone must have forced her, amateur sleuth Mabel Wickles suggests to her friend Flori.  Nobody seems to know anything, and Mabel is becoming frustrated.    When Mabel witnesses some strange goings-on one night in the vacant house next door, she perks up.  A person or persons unknown appear to be using the empty house for nefarious purposes.  Could they be connected to Beulah’s death?  Mabel suspects they might and she sets out to investigate.  But Mabel should be cautious.  One unsuspecting resident of Parson’s Cove has already slipped and died.  Mabel might be next.

Slip and Go Die: A Parson's Cove Cozy Mystery

Rose, Sharon

James Grant, a young politician with everything going for him, including the most recent polls, gives a rousing stump speech in a local park. His campaign for mayor against the entrenched incumbent looks unstoppable. That is, until the police discover him standing over his wife’s dead body with the murder weapon in his hands. It certainly looks as if James is guilty. But psychologist and acoustics expert Pamela Barnes has other ideas–-and they include helping this young man prove his innocence and succeed in his bid for mayor. Can Pamela’s knowledge of sound help her find the real killer and exonerate James? Or will this young politician’s most recent stump speech be his last?

Stump Speech Murder: A Pamela Barnes Acoustic Mystery (Pamela Barnes Acoustic Mysteries)

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