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Carol Golden isn’t her real name. She doesn’t remember her real name or anything that happened before she was found in a Dumpster, naked and unconscious, on the beautiful Palos Verdes Peninsula in Southern California.After helping her get s… more

Lillian Morgan is bored with life in a retirement community, but she gets more excitement than she hoped for when a fellow resident drops dead at the bridge table—while holding a perfect hand of thirteen diamonds. Intrigued by the astronom… more

The second Carol Golden mystery. Carol Golden has recovered her identity if not her memory (lost in FORGET TO REMEMBER) and she would like to find more relatives. She discovers cousins with the last name of Boyd and finds they are apparentl… more

When her granddaughter’s boyfriend, Mark, is accused of sexual harassment soon after starting a teaching job at a small college, retired math professor Lillian Morgan tries to help him and finds that the “harassment policy from hell “could … more

“I like the characters…as well as the Hotline for the setting. This is a great mystery.” Tony Schmidt joins the Central Hotline in sunny Bonita Beach, California to improve his listening skills. Shahla Lawton joins the Hotline to fulfill a … more

Awards: —Silver Quill Award from the American Authors Association —Named Best Mountain West book by Reader Views It is 1964, 10 years after Gary Blanchard’s high school adventures in The Hayloft. He and his love, Penny, are going on the t… more

Drake and Melody are teamed up to run a race along the California Coast for a prize of a million dollars—in 1969 when a million is worth something. Neither knows the other is in the race before it starts. They once did undercover work toget… more

Karl Patterson, sometime baseball card dealer without visible means of support, doesn’t get along all that well with his father, even though he lives in the guest house of his dad’s estate on the Palos Verdes Peninsula near Los Angeles rent… more

The Hayloft: a 1950s mystery features bobby sox, slow dancing, the communist conspiracy, bomb shelters—and murder. Within two weeks after starting his senior year of high school, Gary Blanchard finds himself kicked out of one school and att… more

“As Tolkien said, not all who wander are lost. Alan Cook is a walker who is always on the Road to Somewhere. (He) inspires us walkers to get moving on our own adventures. My chief reaction to the book is jealousy. I want to lace up my walki… more

Matthew and Mason are on vacation in Greece with their parents. While exploring the ruins at Knossos Palace on the island of Crete, they wander off and suddenly find themselves at Knossos in its prime, 4,000 years ago, when the Minoans were… more

In the third Carol Golden novel, Carol still has amnesia when she is abducted under strange circumstances and asked to help find an old boyfriend she doesn’t remember who is supposedly plotting the downfall of the Western World. This life-o… more

“Bobby sox, slowing dancing, bomb shelters, the communist conspiracy—and murder.Within two weeks after starting his senior year of high school in the 1950s, Gary Blanchard finds himself kicked out of one school and attending another—the sch… more

“Winner Silver Quill award by the American Authors Association and voted best Pacific West book by Reader Views.“I really like books by this author…I often felt like I was out there running with them.”—Dawn Dowdle for mysteryloverscorner.co… more

FREEDOM’S LIGHT contains quotations from 38 of history’s champions of freedom, from Aristotle to Zlata Filipovic, from George Washington to Martin Luther King, Jr. Included are Jefferson, Adams, Franklin, Anne Frank and many more.

“Honeymoon for Three has won the Silver Quill award, presented by the American Author’s Association for literary excellence, and the Reader Views award for the best Mountain West book.It is 1964, 10 years after Gary Blanchard’s high school … more

“            “I like the characters…as well as the Hotline for the setting. This is a great mystery.”             Tony Schmidt joins the Central Hotline in sunny Bonita Beach, California to improve his listening skills. Shahla Lawton joins … more