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.

Readers have this to say about The River Bend Chronicles:"Take a chance on reading the River Bend Chronicles. You won't be disappointed.""Renee gets better with each book she writes.""I love this series of books. I feel like I am visiting a town I grew up in when I read another volume."The gang in River Bend find themselves dealing with aging parents and with a local nonprofit taking advantage of the elderly in the community. As Piper's father undergoes knee surgery, her mother, Glenda, is left alone at the farm seeming to suffer from a mental decline. Lynn and Dusty discover a dead man on the farm and the folks in River Bend become concerned with safety for the community's elder citizens when the investigation into the man's death leads to evidence of a local nonprofit cheating and scamming elder citizens. Strokes, surgery, scams and murder focus concern on the aging citizens and their safety with a little romance thrown in.

"The folks of River Bend have become like family. I love following their adventures from book to book. Renee Kumar has found a winning recipe for an ongoing romance series that is peppered with mystery and murder."- Marcy Birdweather, Marcy's MusingsIt's the beginning of a new year. Lynn Powers is still recovering from witnessing her friend Susan Carmichael die in an explosion. Polly, Susan's teenage daughter, has agreed to stay in River Bend for the rest of her freshman year of high school. She is having some difficult periods of adjustment. As Lynn and her friends cope with Polly, Yolanda Valeri receives a bequest from an elderly admirer. She is given a half-a-million dollars to distribute to local nonprofits as she sees fit. However, Lynn and her friends are drawn into a mystery as a nonprofit tries to intimidate Yolanda into granting it all her money.

"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.