Books published by Camel Press

Tired of sitting surveillance on insurance fraud, apprentice PI Eve Apple Egret gets her first big case, one where the outcome is important and personal. Eve’s best friend Madeleine has few relatives, so her Uncle Shamus is special, but someone is determined to kill him and has tried several times. Eve is certain she can identify who is after him, but this time she may have taken on more than even our self-confident Eve can handle. Coping with a growing toddler and a teenager, devoting time to the consignment shop and finding someone who can go undercover in a sexual harassment case all vie for Eve’s attention. Eve knows she cannot fail Madeleine. This is more than her favorite uncle’s life. His death would mean devastating loss for Madeleine and call into question Eve’s commitment as a friend and her ability as a PI. 

When John Paul Rollins is murdered during his niece's wedding reception, Detective RJ Franklin quickly realizes this case is going to be anything but routine. The list of people who wanted him dead includes just about everyone he's ever known including the bride and groom. Can RJ put his personal feelings behind him and catch a killer?

Lt. Christopher Worthy and Father Nicholas Fortis return to New Mexico to help their friend Sera Lacey, whose husband was captured and tortured by the Taliban in Afghanistan before returning to the States, where he was arrested shortly thereafter for the murder of a fellow soldier.

Claire Barclay expects to meet a fellow mystery book lover amid tea and petit fours but discovers instead the body of her hostess. She is dismayed to find her quiet English village contains malice, greed and murder.

During a family vacation at a mountainside lake, psychic sleuth Baxley Powell is enlisted by the local police to find the killer of a man mysteriously drained of his life force. The otherworldly trail leads to Jonas, a vampire who feeds off energy, not blood. Joining forces with a Native American detective whose powers rival her own, Baxley sets out to conquer this formidable entity. 

The word is out on the BSI and the world has cometo accept the presence of the Supernaturals that creepinto our reality from the World Under.

Twenty-something neophyte detective, Marcie Rayner, has put one murder investigation to rest at Blake Investigations in New Ulm, Minnesota, when another case, emanating from the same source (her mother), lands in her lap. When Helena Heatherbrae, the wealthy proprietress of an iconic architectural structure east of Minneapolis is found dead, her cook is positive it was murder. To complicate matters, Marcie has just taken on another client who's convinced her fiancé is cheating on her. As Marcie juggles both cases, she learns that the secrets hidden in the labyrinthine Mystery Castle are nothing in comparison to the ones stemming from her clients. Using her newly acquired skills as a detective, coupled with her own street smarts, Marcie navigates through a maze of off-beat suspects as she probes deeper into both cases. The caveat is when she finds her client's philandering boyfriend is linked to the Mystery Castle in a way she never imagined. The closer Marcie gets to finding the truth behind Helena's death, the more she realizes some secrets are better left undisturbed.

Spring is coming up roses for Professor Emmeline Prather. Her book is finished, her classes are almost finished, and her love life is in full bloom. Then the Shakespeare Festival begins, and a tempest ensues-not the Shakespearean kind.

It’s almost Christmas and Sheriff Ben Bradley and his wife, Mae, are expecting twins. All is quiet in Rosedale until elderly Mrs. Cooper falls off her porch. She is taken to Rosedale General and later dies. The Sheriff suspects foul play, but the Coroner disagrees, saying the cause of death was a dislodged oxygen tube. Ben refuses to give up and sends Investigator Dory Clarkson to talk to Mrs. Cooper’s neighbors. She learns Mrs. Cooper refused to vacate her small home that property developers building large mansions in the neighborhood wanted razed. It’s a motive for the crime, but both the property developer and the builder have cast-iron alibis. Plus, nobody can figure out exactly how Mrs. Cooper was killed. The only clue is a line of bruises across her ankles. Then a Nativity Display is stolen from the church. The carved figures are valuable, but there is no ransom demand. The whole village is focused on finding the Nativity figures, but Ben is still worried that there’s a killer in Rosedale. Pregnant Mae thinks the murder and the Nativity theft are connected. All the threads of the story come together at the Christmas Eve church service.

Detective Carrie Shatner''s family members may break various laws, but at least none of them are suspects in her latest murder investigation. That''s not to say they''re making her job any easier when it comes to figuring out who put a local professional wrestler down for a permanent three count.

Remy Loh Bishop is a thirty year old forensic technician determined to clear her name after she was accused of evidence tampering in a murder case. Now employed as an appraiser for an auction house, she's still running down leads, but has a bigger problem when her first client ends up dead.

When a Jane Doe is found in a suitcase, amateur sleuth Baxley Powell tries to identify the woman and her killer. A local woman vanishes, and Baxley fears the kidnapped woman will end up in a suitcase. Using normal and paranormal senses, Baxley matches wits with a cunning adversary.

Congressional staffer and amateur sleuth Kit Marshall hopes to reconnect with her hippie-turned-techie brother, but the reunion gets complicated when the body of a high-ranking government official is found at the United States Botanic Garden. Solving the crime becomes a family affair as Kit and her posse set out to identify the killer and unravel the complicated motive behind the murder.

Prominent lawyer Charles Hanford is dead. According to the autopsy, it's nothing more than an everyday drowning, a surfing accident. In surfer lingo, he just caught a bad wave. But Kami White, his paralegal, isn't so sure. She's surfed with Charles a dozen times and knows how careful he was. When she talks to the other surfers on the beach that day, and to her cousin Patrick, the captain of the Coast Guard cutter that responded to the drowning, she's even more certain that it was no simple accident.

For the forces of evil, Sam Roberts is catnip. Even during periods of calm, Sam knows that evil is just biding its time before challenging him again. So when he is asked to defend a wealthy shut-in charged with murder, he is suspicious. Why is the largest and wealthiest law firm in town hiring an outside attorney who is a sole practitioner to represent Mr. Blake May? Sam's client resides in the sublimely creepy Frost Home, a "haunted" mansion given a wide berth by the residents of Champaign, Illinois. The house has been engulfed in rumors of death, missing children, and mystery since before the Civil War. Blake May is accused of not only murdering his girlfriend but decimating the remains until they look like marinara. But the agoraphobic middle-aged man rarely, if ever, left his rooms. If he indeed killed Heather, why can't the police find a murder weapon? Everyone seems to want Blake declared insane rather than acquitted. Sam and his buddy Bob Sizemore know that Heather's grizzly fate can't be blamed on something as mundane as murder. There is a force at work in the house, and it seems to emanate from the mirror hung in the room where the remains of the body were found. Can Sam and Bob end the Frost Home's eerie legacy of evil? Book 5 in the Samuel Roberts Thriller series.

The base-born daughter of an earl, nineteen-year-old Eden is torn from her foster family in Kent, whisked off to London, and groomed to follow in her courtesan mother's footsteps. Her lessons in court etiquette, politics, and charm are overseen by Maximilian, a tall and striking Flemish prince fallen on hard times. Ever since the death of his wife, Max has grappled with his cousin, Count Rudolf-also his brother-in-law-who covets Max's land. Rudolf is just one of the enemies seeking to brand Max and Eden's father, the Earl of Marlborough, as Jacobites bent on killing William of Orange and restoring James to the throne. Eden is Max and the earl's last hope. If she can convince King William to embrace her as his mistress, she can use her influence to clear Max's name and free her father from the Tower of London. Eden has inherited her mother's beauty, but not her guile. Though she must not waver from her goal to seduce the king, she cannot deny her growing love for the Flemish prince. Max in turn is far from indifferent to the claret-curled, ebony-eyed siren who has pledged herself to him body and soul.