Bøger af Vinnie Hansen

No one wants P.I. Carol Sabala to take the case. Her boss is apprehensive about an illegal investigation in Cuba. Carol's boyfriend worries about her physical safety. But the client is rolling in dough, the office has unpaid bills, and Carol chafes under the mundane tasks assigned to her.In Old Havana, Carol sets off to track down Megan, the client's missing daughter, who is battling metastasizing cancer and running from a sociopathic boyfriend. Struggling in the exotic world of the island, Carol races to find Megan, before the disease or her ex-boyfriend kills her.

Carol Sabala's boss sends the baker and amateur sleuth on a mission: find out who tampered with a teacher's cookie dough and sickened the faculty. While Carol hones her investigative skills by gathering clues on the campus, a student is found dead on the high school's stage. Did she fall? Commit suicide? Or did a killer hurl her from the catwalk? When Carol seeks answers, a ruthless stalker comes after her.

When the head chef collapses into baker Carol Sabala's cookie dough, she is thrust into her first murder investigation. Suspects abound at Archibald's, the swanky Santa Cruz restaurant where Carol works. The head chef cut a swath of people who wanted him dead from ex-lovers to bitter rivals to greedy relatives. Even Carol plotted his demise!

The year is 1982. Twenty-eight-year-old would-be writer Cecile abandons her life in San Francisco to accept a teaching position in a small California coast town. Forced to move quickly, she rents a unit in a complex meant for the elderly and handicapped. Wounded by a failed relationship and caught in the flurry of first-year teaching, Cecile feels overwhelmed and isolated. But her new neighbors won't leave her alone. A series of thefts, a romance between two tenants, a fire, and a murder propel Cecile toward a life-changing decision . . . .

Newly divorced and vulnerable, baker/sleuth Carol Sabala resists her friend's pressure to use a personal ad to enter the dating scene. Two weeks later a woman's body is found strangled on a riverbank in Santa Cruz. Did the killer use the ads to lure his victim? Hired to investigate by the deceased's cousin, Carol sees the amateur photographer who discovered the body as a likely suspect. He's handsome, charming, and definitely on the prowl. Is it for a date with Carol or for his next prey? As Carol digs deeper into the case, she uncovers one dangerous-but-appealing man after another. Longing for companionship and adventure in her own life, Carol learns the hard way that combining the two can be a risky business.

A dead mother. A missing father. A mysterious man. They all spell trouble for private investigator Carol Sabala. When Carol's mother dies unexpectedly, Carol is left with no family-only money, grief, and an envelope. Her mother has charged her with a mission: deliver the envelope to her long-lost father. Enroute to Zihuatanejo, Mexico, to track down her father, Carol encounters the alluring Mark Escalante, who snares her in a deadly pursuit of his own.

Her first real P.I. case, an ailing mother, and a stalled relationship. As Carol Sabala attempts to juggle the components of her life, they all threaten to crash. Training to be a private eye, Carol wrangles a job to investigate a woman's will. The more Carol probes the retirement home where the woman died, the more she grasps how easily one could kill an elderly person in such a facility. It is, after all, an expected last address. With Carol's mother intent on moving to the same retirement home, the stakes are high. Will Carol prevent this facility from being her mother's final address? Can she keep all the pieces of her life in the air as she enters a world of drug addicts and murder?