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|  | | A Murder for Christmas: An Amateur Female Sleuth Historical Cozy Mystery
Miss Riddell has returned home to nurse her sick parents. Her cousin and her first love is murdered. He was a small-time crook but Miss Riddell doesn't believe that is why he was murdered.
With her hometown awash with crime, a sleuth must solve a slaying. Can she save her family from a treacherous plot?
Yorkshire, England, 1962. Miss Riddell definitely isn’t having a merry Christmas. With her mother sick and brother pestering her to investigate a forged will, the worst winter in decades has her longing to return to regular life. And just as a series of ugly incidents in the village pushes the pressure to a boiling point, things take a deadly turn when her cousin is brutally murdered.
Convinced there’s a devious link between the fraud and the death, Miss Riddell | |  | | In The Beginning, There Was a Murder
An Amateur Female Sleuth Historical Cozy Mystery set in 1950's England.
A secret liaison. A violent murder. Can one woman solve the crime without joining the body count?
Northern England, 1953. Pauline Riddell has grand ambitions for her future at the armament factory. So, when her closest workmate reveals a salacious affair with a married man, Pauline refuses to risk her career by listening to the scandal. But she’s shaken to her core when the police arrive with news of her best friend’s homicide.
Desperate for justice, Pauline’s insistent poking into the investigation only makes her the prime suspect. And now to clear her name, she must unravel | |  | | It’s Murder, On a Galapagos Cruise: An Amateur Female Sleuth Cozy Mystery
Miss Riddell and her recently widowed sister take a Galapagos cruise. They find a body. Everyone says accident. Miss Riddell says not and sets out to prove it.
A trip of a lifetime turns deadly when a sleuth uncovers a body. Can she follow the clues to their bloody end before she meets a watery grave?
1988, Ecuador. Seasoned puzzle-solver Pauline Riddell believes in justice. Even on a cruise to the Galapagos Islands with her grieving sister, her keen eye for what’s right and wrong keeps her vigilant. So, when a stroll along the deck leads to the discovery of a dead crew member, the middle-aged woman stands her ground and claims foul play.
With the ship’s brand-new company desperate to avoid scandal, she agrees to work with a brash | |  | | The Modest Proposal Institute
The near future comes alive in this tale of societal collapse and rebirth through the work boys and men in The Modest Proposal Institute
The Modest Proposal Institute: An Old Path to a New Future is the first book in the Modest Institute YA sci-fi series. If you like futuristic contests, ambitious heroes, and tough social challenges, then you'll love Paul James’ unique glimpse of tomorrow's society.
| |  | | The Modest Proposal Institute: No More Empires
Alexis and Shane have learned to collaborate and have gone their separate ways -- to the moon and under the ones. On the Earth's surface, however, a new rival has emerged -- one who wants to step in and help the world in chaos
No More Empires, the second book in the #1 Bestseller series The Modest Proposal Institute, starts where Alexis and Shane begin building their chosen worlds. We dive below the sea with Shane and fly into space with Alexis while, on the Earth’s surface, the institute struggles to survive amid the Western world’s collapse. Out of the turmoil, a rival emerges to challenge Alexis and Shane for the Institute's leadership. Tomas, who builds the institute’s robots, has his own ideas about how things should be done and his way doesn’t include Alexis and Shane. With the Founders seemingly enthralled by | |  | | The Modest Proposal Institute: Rival Institutes
The Institute's graduates have established themselves in their separate spheres, Alexis in space, Shane under the sea, and Tomas and Nadia on the Earth's surface, from where they struggle to dominate the Institute and each other.
The near-future becomes horribly real in this third book of The Modest Proposal Institute dystopian sci-fi series.
It’s 2029. The West’s collapse has left millions dead and millions more dying. The Institute’s Founders, Alexis, Shane, and Tomas, clash over how to save the West, and its people, and their individual initiatives lead them to fight each other. Each is sure their way is the only one and are equally sure the others’ meddling will make things worse. Each of them believes only they can save the West and, if they fail, a new thousand-year Dark Age beckons.
With stakes | |  | | The Modest Proposal Institute: War of the Institutes
War of the Institutes, the fourth and final book of The Modest Proposal Institute dystopian sci-fi series, ends this disturbingly real near-future fictional history
The Modest Proposal Institute, which began in 2018 with such high hopes of saving the future progress of mankind, has broken into rival factions by 2030. Book 4, War of the Institutes, brings to an end this dystopian young adult, near-future sci-fi, history of Earth.
Alexis and his pioneers have set up home on the moon and Mars. Shane and his ocean pioneers are establishing mankind's presence on the seabed. Nadia and Tomas reign supreme in Western Europe and would like to extend their dominion across all the old Western lands. A splinter group, led by Jamie, wishes to live free in No |
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