Bücher der Reihe River Bend Chronicles

"A grab-you-by-the-necktie storyteller, Mark Zeid will capture your attention and not let you go. An award-winning page turner."- H.L. Osterman, Short Changed Terry Lambert is a dwarf working as a copy editor for a newspaper. A routine job until he answers a phone call one morning. Paula Stanford is a Marine Corps, combat veteran working as an aerobics instructor. A low-stress job perfect for her as she deals with her PTSD. Then she becomes the victim of a hit-and-run, fender-bender. These two unrelated events, and a couple of bodies, bring these two together to form a most unusual crime-fighting duo hunting for a serial killer, playing a deadly cat-and-mouse game with the police. As the body count climbs, their investigation turns up leads to the killer, but the game changes to where Terry and Paula become the killer's targets.

"There are lots of mystery novels out there, and a fair number set in Key West, a colorful island backdrop that offers plenty of intrigue and edge-of-the-bow action -- but make room for another, a well-told tale by a writer who actually lives there!"- Nicolas Gilmartin Teranzi, Online Critics CornerAn "unrelenting adventure," this is the story of Ronnie and Kelly and Captain Jack and Frankie and George and Uncle Joe. It includes murder, mafia, drug running, Key West, Cuba, Chicago, whiskey and cigars and hurricanes. And undying love between a daughter and her Dad. "Another Key West mystery writer steps onto the island stage," notes editorial director Hollis George.

"This may just become my favorite cozy mystery series ..." - Marjory Sorrell Rockwell, author of the Quilters Club Mysteries.The Phantom Cooks -- Marcia Lambert, Jean Turlington, and Peggy Doyle -- those three friends in a small seaside town in Southern Maine who run a part-time catering business -- are faced with their second mystery: local citizens being boiled alive. An old-time punishment for poisoners, boiling seems like a strange method for murder, so the amateur sleuths take on the case to the consternation of Police Chief Montgomery Knoble. Where will this investigation take them? Let's just say things get heated.