Bücher von Maggie Shayne

"Maggie Shayne's books have a permanent spot on my keeper shelf." -#1 NY Times Bestselling Author KAREN ROBARDHey, I'm Rachel de Luca, a self-help guru with a potty mouth and a penchant for crime-solving. My partner, soon to be husband if I can get over my paralyzing fear, is Mason Brown, a detective with the Binghamton PD.Ten years ago, professional mermaid Eva Quaid disappeared without a trace from The Sapphire Club. Now, my niece Misty is working at the same club, doing the same job. Coincidentally, (not) Misty's college roommate is in the thick of her self-produced true crime podcast about the same cold case. Misty has kept every bit of this from our way-too-close-for-privacy family.None of this would be a big deal, except that I've been having nightmares. It's my wedding day, and I look from my adoring groom to my twin nieces, face down in the shallows of the reservoir behind the altar.I dreamt, too, of a dying mermaid who's been trying to get my attention ever since.When my sister Sandra says she's worried about twin daughters, Mason and I agree to do a little snooping-only to find Misty has been keeping some big secrets, and is not where she's supposed to be. Nobody knows where she is.I'm pretty sure that Misty's gone off the grid with her podcasting partner Zig to surveil their favorite suspects in the ten-year-old case of the missing mermaid.I'm even more sure the mermaid is dead, and that her killer is determined to keep their oldest, deadliest secret, even if it means taking another young woman's life.I have to find my beloved niece before my visions come true-the way they always do.

A short, riveting thriller that resets you in the Brown and de Luca Universe just in time for book 7, GIRL BLUE."Shayne has hit the jackpot with the pairing of self-help author Rachel de Luca and Detective Mason Brown. ...she is a master storyteller." -RT Book Reviews on Innocent Prey, a Brown and de Luca NovelHey, I'm Rachel and just so you know up front, I've got a mouth on me. Not in public-when I can help it. Cussing is bad for the image of a bona fide guru of self-help, or that which I call "the bullsh*t I write."Only, I'm not so sure it's bullsh*t, because in trying it out, I got my eyesight back after 20 years. Yeah, the corneal tissue came from a serial killer, and yeah, I started seeing his crimes. But still, eyesight.I also have the hottest detective in the universe attached to my proverbial-and, okay, wider than I'd like-hip. I got his 2 nephews with the package and I couldn't fu-freaking love Jeremy and Josh more if I was their mother, which I'm way too young to be.That's a lie, Rache. They're twelve and eighteen. You're thirty-Don't interrupt, Inner B*tch, I'm on a roll.I also have my amazing bulldog, Myrtle. I understand her. She's blind like I used to be.And I got a little something extra with my cornea transplant. "It's a blessing and a curse," said the greatest TV detective ever.Only my something extra was...let's say down. And one of Josh's sixth-going-into-seventh-grade pals has been kidnapped. The sick prick snatched him off his bicycle and left a note behind. "Wait for instructions." Only none ever came.What a time for my antennae to be out of whack!So my wires are down, there's a kid missing, I'm bathing in my pity pool, and things get even worse. A big celebrity psychic shows up to help the cops find the missing kid. In my town.Yeah. No.So there's all that. But I'm out of room, so...just get the book, and I'll tell you the rest.#"This is page-turning, non-stop suspense at its finest."-RT Bookclub on Deadly Obsession, A Brown and de Luca Novel

"Maggie Shayne's books have a permanent spot on my keeper shelf." -#1 NY Times Bestselling Author¿ KAREN ROBARDSSo, I'm going along in my blissful life, waiting for my guy to get off his ass and pop the question and trying to put my next self-help book to bed, when I'm interrupted by a mental intruder. I'm suddenly doing a ride-along inside some stranger's head, while the attached set of hands strangle a guy in the back seat of a car.It felt like I was killing the guy. But I didn't, because I woke up cussing (not unusual) in my own bed beside my sexy cop and my blind bulldog. Said sexy cop then gets a text about a body, and I know it's the man I just sort of murdered.Turns out mister picture-wire necktie isn't the only victim. One of the others was punched in the face by our 19 year-old sort of kid in front of 20 witnesses right before he vanished. Jeremy is brought in for questioning by Mason's own co-cops.The only other suspects are a woman who beams sweetness and light like a freakin' earthbound angel, and an old horror star who's supposed to be dead. And if those two are murderers, I'm Miz Manners.Mason wants them to be guilty because it would clear Jeremy. He thinks I'm keeping things from him, which I am. He thinks I'm not putting Jeremy first, which I totally am. This whole thing is getting between us. So I've gotta solve it, fast.Even if it means going face-to-face with a serial killer.But the vigilante is more broken than I bargained for, and is determined to silence me. Permanently."Shayne has hit the jackpot with the pairing of self-help author Rachel de Luca and Detective Mason Brown.""This is page-turning, non-stop suspense at its finest!"-RT Book Reviews on The Brown and de Luca Novels

The riveting backstory of Holly and Ivy Newman from A Brown and de Luca Novel Book 7, CRY WOLF.Publisher's Weekly Raves: "A moving mix of high suspense and romance, this haunting Halloween thriller will propel readers to bolt their doors at night.""A gripping story of small town secrets. The suspense will keep you guessing. The characters will steal your heart." -New York Times Bestselling Author Lisa GardnerSince the day her baby sister was taken, Holly's mind hasn't been the same. PTSD, panic attacks, nightmares and blocked memories have plagued her ever since. And now they've returned.Hard-edged Detective Vince O'Malley's most recent case penetrated even his protective shell. Ordered to take time off to recover, he can't let go, and on his own, follows the clues to Holly's small upstate NY town.His presence stirs ghosts from the past, shadows of a little girl lost, the suspicions of some tight-lipped locals with secrets to hide, and more than that inside Holly's fragile mind and untouched heart."Maggie Shayne's books have a permanent spot on my keeper shelf. She writes wonderful stories combining romance with page-turning thrills, and I highly recommend her to any fan of romantic suspense." -New York Times Bestselling Author Karen Robards

Rom-Com Ghost Mysteries by Award-Winning Author Maggie ShayneJohnny's would-be girlfriend has called it quits, his newfound grandfather has pulled a vanishing act, and his odd connection to the dying has mutated into something else altogether, something he doesn't understand. Suffice to say, he was already having a lousy week when a kid came tearing out of the woods like the devil was chasing him and right into the path of his truck.Teenage Ryan isn't too badly hurt, but it turns out the seventeen-year-old has a serious ghost problem. He was convinced no one would believe him or be able to help him even if they did. But that was before he met Johnny and the gang at Spook Central.Johnny takes Ryan and his gorgeous older sister Breia to Kiley and Jack's no-longer-haunted Victorian money pit, which is also the gang's ghost-busting headquarters. But Kiley's not so sure the house is phantom-free. She says she's heard a female's smoke-and-whiskey voiced laughter a couple of times, which is weird as she's a total muggle.Maya, their resident Wiccan, sets wards around the place to keep ghosts away while Johnny sets wards around his heart to stay in the friend zone where she's put him. Her reasons are both practical and ridiculous since she's as drawn to him as he is to her. Also, he's pretty sure their fates are entwined.Soon, however, they're both too busy trying to protect a young boy and stay alive while doing it. Spirits the likes of which they've never encountered unleash hellish fury on them all, and survival takes precedence over their own star-crossed journey to love.A romantic comedy ghost mystery.

A hilarious, blood-chilling, romantic holiday-mystery!Her house is no longer a crime scene...Now that all the bodies have been removed from her basement, the crime solved, and the ghosts helped to the other side, Kiley can finally settle into her Gothic fixer-upper.But she misses her nemesis-turned-lover...Even though she stayed with Jack for the past few weeks, their relationship is too new to risk shacking up long-term. Besides, she values her space and her independence too much to give it up so soon.She has something to prove...Moving back in alone is a statement. She is reclaiming her space from the dead. Not to mention from the living, namely the little group of ghostbusters who helped clear her house. Since then, the five of them have helped a few other people with spook issues, mostly imaginary ones. But the gang seems a little too eager to make her place into their ghost hunting Headquarters.She does not want her home to become Spook Central...But the dead have other ideas. Especially the one who shows up on Kiley's very first night back, bringing a heartbreaking, unsolved, five-year-old Christmas murder mystery to her doorstep. And she's not leaving until Kiley and the gang solve it.

She does not believe in ghosts...Kiley's made a name for herself with her column debunking new-age fortune tellers, mediums, and psychics. Her small New Englandish town is known for its hauntings, so the charlatans abound. Her nemesis eludes her...Jack McCain is the one she's never been able to trip up. He's the smoothest con of them all with his good looks, quick wit, natural charm. She even enjoys the game they're playing, her trying to trick him, him always a step ahead of her. They've become best enemies.But something's wrong...Now, something's going on with her house, a big old Gothic she bought for a song. It began with a death threat written in blood. At first, she figures it's one of the phonies she's exposed, out for revenge, but before long she has to admit there's something otherworldly happening. And she can't handle it on her own. She needs help. She needs a medium who's the real deal. She needs Jack McCain.FATAL FIXER UPPER was originally titled "Her Best Enemy," and is a RITA® Award-winning story.

Jack's ex shows up out of the blue to ask for help with her dearly departed husband-who might not be so departed. Kiley-who didn't even know Jack had an ex, is determined to take the case from the rich widow, who is offering big bucks.A weekend in paradise seems like a fun break to Maya, except that both Johnny, the guy she's stuck on, and Joe, the guy she's pretending to be stuck on are coming too.So the gang head to the private island mansion of the widow, where nothing is as it seems, and soon, they are cut off from civilization with no boat, no phone, and no help on the way, as a hurricane bears down on an island crawling with cultish killers who'll sacrifice anyone who tries to stop them from getting what they want. Immortality.