Published Novels - Historical and Crime Fiction Mysteries
New Fictional Crime Series: The Shadow Coast Chronicles
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Book 1: The Silence on Dauphine Street
New Orleans hides its secrets well, but sometimes, silence screams the loudest. When true-crime enthusiast Olivia Johnson moves into a historic townhome, her quiet life shatters. Her new neighbors are brutally murdered, and official reports are full of holes. With a missing photograph and conflicting timelines, Olivia’s amateur sleuthing instincts ignite, pulling her into a dark, compelling investigation.
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Book 2: Bayou of Bones
The dead don't stay buried in Cajun Country, especially when a curious librarian with a knack for cold cases starts digging. Olivia Johnson, now a celebrated amateur sleuth, finally enjoys a quiet life with her husband, Theodore, and their tuxedo cat, Walter. But a mysterious note and a decades-old newspaper clipping yank her back into the shadows of Louisiana's past, proving some secrets refuse to stay hidden
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Book 3: The Gulf Coast Shadow
A faded photograph arrives, a chilling echo from the past, and Olivia Johnson knows she can't ignore it. Six smiling faces on a Galveston dock in 1974, four of whom would soon be dead, one vanished, and one left to hide a half-century of secrets. What started as an anonymous tip is now a twisted invitation to uncover a truth someone desperately wants buried. .
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Book 4: The Savannah Cipher
Just when Olivia Johnson thought the shadows of the Tide Society were behind her, an anonymous package pulls her back into a chilling past. A sepia photograph from 1952, a scratched-out figure, and a cryptic note: Start at Savannah. The first victim. The fragile peace she’d found with Theodore and Marie-Louise shatters, replaced by the relentless pull of a new, decades-old mystery.
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Book 5: The Atlantic Conspiracy
The moment when it seemed to Olivia Johnson that the shadow of conspiracy was gone, she finds out that everything is not finished yet. One anonymous package destroys her life: the picture from 1944 and a frightening message—"They existed before Evelyn knew their names. LONDON."—prove that the network which she uncovered is much older and larger than it seems to be and is even global. There is no way back now—she has to continue her investigation.
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Book 6: The Seventh Continent
Olivia Johnson thought she had finally laid the most dangerous conspiracy to rest. She could not be more wrong. An odd journal entry, a strange page in an old book, and the last wishes of a woman who just passed away give rise to an even more terrible reality than she was expecting: The Circle was only one of many tendrils of a much older and more widespread global conspiracy whose origins can be traced all the way back to Buenos Aires in 1943. Olivia will have to hunt for a phantom again – this time on an international scale.
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Book 7: The First Thread
Just when Olivia Johnson thought the fight was over, a single photograph shatters her peace. A cryptic message from 1931 suggests every conspiracy she’s ever exposed—the Tide Society, Project Meridian, even the Seventh Continent—are mere echoes of a far older, darker secret. Istanbul holds the key to the true beginning, forcing Olivia to confront the unsettling possibility that their past victories were built on shifting sand.