Bøger af Sharon Ervin

Jancy Dewhurst, 23, a pushy, disheveled newspaper reporter, nervously attends her first homicide and immediately locks horns with Jim Wills, 27, a natty cop who has no use for reporters meddling in an investigation. Observant, Jancy marvels that she contributes more to the investigation than the cop, but must be nice and try to cultivate him as a source. A second victim marked with the killer's same odd signature is found near the university campus, prompting a second brusque run-in between Jancy and Jim. An attorney, S.B.I. Agent Wills ably assimilates information into theories of a crime; but often overlooks vital data. Jancy notices details, but has no idea how they apply. Pooling their talents, Jim and Jancy complement each other, leading to grudging regard for each other. A third killing draws both Dewhurst and Wills. The governor names Wills in charge of the investigations. After a fourth victim succumbs, Jim cautions Jancy not to snoop into the killings on her own. When she stumbles onto an unlikely lead and appears to put herself in jeopardy, Wills is livid and the fragile bond between Jim and Jancy snaps. However, they reconcile and devise a plan to flush the suspect they each independently have concluded is the ribbon murderer. The Ribbon Murders is the first of a three-book series featuring Jim Wills and Jancy Dewhurst. They pair up to solve more murders in Volume 2, Murder Aboard the Choctaw Gambler, and Volume 3, Candlesticks.

Success has always come easy to socialite MaryBeth Gilland. Following her father's death, however, she needs some cash, quick. As head of an in-house detective agency owned by her father, Gray Wheeler has had it cushy as well. Suddenly, he's got to turn a profit to stay in business. But when MaryBeth sashays in looking for a job with adventure, he hires her on the spot. Now he really needs to produce. Enter a client who claims her sister is being murdered, even as they speak. The victim is in a coma, but it's only a matter of time. The client insists her brother-in-law Leland "Jack" Sprat is to blame, and she'll pay big money to see him behind bars. Time for MaryBeth to show she's more than just a pretty face and Wheeler to prove he can actually investigate. If they don't kill each other first.

A woman's mangled body found on the shoulder of a highway bypass near the small town of Astrick, Oklahoma, is mistakenly identified as 28-year-old Memory Smith. The town is aghast. Was Astrick's favorite daughter murdered or the victim of a grisly hit-and-run? Baffled by the initial reports, Astrick's Assistant District Attorney and Memory's former bad boy classmate, David (Mac) McCann, knows exactly where Memory is, and it's not lying dead beside a highway. While investigating the wild rumor of her death, and several subsequent foiled assaults on Memory, Mac and Memory stumble onto clues from another long-ago questionable death. Can they be connected to the mysterious woman on the highway? Better yet, can Astrick's former hellion and the town's sainted miracle child find true love amid the chaos and confusion of a bumbling kidnapper and a town where everybody lies?