Books in the Appalachian Trail Murder Mysteries series

Four young professionals pick the wrong weekend to visit a popular Pumpkin Patch Bed and Breakfast. It's the last day of the season, and the weather and the farm are picture perfect. Ma and Pa Winter anr the consummate hosts, and they immediately win over Dillon, Tara, Josh and Julia with their homespun authenticity.Like the thousands of other visitors to Winters Farm and Orchard, the four are eager to pick apples and pumpkins and take the challenge of the Giant Corn Maze.But Ma Winter has other plans.A scary moonlight hayride spirals into a frantic twenty-four hours of deception and mayhem, and the group find themselves unwilling participants in a horrific family tradition that could ruin their lives forever.

No one is who they seem in this intricate and fast-paced plot of global intrigue, revenge, and murder. High tech and low tech collide on the Appalachian Trail when a retired intelligence operative must identify his nephew’s assassin among a ragtag group of colorful hikers. Cryptic trail name aliases provide the perfect cover, and scenic Harpers Ferry, West Virginia provides the dramatic backdrop for the unpredictable ending.