Karen Fowler Mystery Series
available through Cozy Cat Press
Book 1
How unexpected— a murder at a school in a quirky small town of Chaldea, Iowa. As Karen Fowler navigates this unusual circumstance, she must balance her snarky inner thoughts with her public persona of assistant principal. She works in concert with Brian Kerns, the calm, cool, strikingly handsome detective assigned to the case. As the list of suspects grows, Karen and Brian realize that the murder is going to change the lives of friends, family, and community members forever.
Book 2
Karen Fowler thinks teaching a course at the local college will be easy the second year. But after a tense faculty meeting she isn’t so sure. After a murder occurs at the college, almost everyone becomes a suspect. Administrators, fellow faculty members, students— who can Karen trust? Is she in danger since she teaches at night and always walks out to an empty parking lot? Her acquaintance with Brian Kerns, a detective from a previous investigation into murder, has blossomed into a serious relationship, although long-distance. Will she need his help or can she solve this murder on her own?
Book 3
How much do you want to know about your neighbors? Some people in Karen’s neighborhood seem to know too much, others are hiding information, and then there are neighbors about whom it might be better to know nothing. Everyone gets along pretty well until one neighbor, keeper of the gossip, is found murdered. Neighbors start to gang up on each other and the neighborhood is no longer tranquil and peaceful, if it ever really was. Once again, Karen and Detective Brian Kerns team up to solve the murder.
Book 4
Class reunions should be a lark, especially after 40 years. Classmates reconnect, reminisce, and relive the glory days of their youth. No lark for the attendees of the Chaldea High School class of 1984 reunion. Not only does Karen Fowler’s famous classmate, romance novelist Sandra Hammers, fail to show up for her award, but classmates begin to ponder and debate another disappearance. Just before graduation 40 years ago, Tiffany Wilson vanished and no-one, not even her family, has heard from her. As Karen and her friend Lucy Calkins explore Sandra’s disappearance, strange circumstances from the past and present keep surfacing. They discover that friends, former teachers, townspeople, and fellow classmates were involved with both Sandra and Tiffany. Are the disappearances connected?