Lake, M.D.

Flirting with Death (Peggy O'Neill Mysteries, Book 8)

Midsummer Malice: A Peggy O'Neill Mystery

Campus cop Peggy ONeill is making her nightly rounds when she runs into Steadman George, the aging piano man who lives and works aboard the universitys Showboat Theater, docked on the Mississippi. Tonight he has a tale to tell.

Twenty years ago Steadman helped an unmarried teen sell her baby to a show-biz couple, and hes kept the shady deal to himself--until now. The biological mother is back, looking for her daughter, and Steadman wonders if he should help her, or help himself to a different deal.

But the day after Peggy hears Steadmans nostalgic story, shes finishing his body out of the river. Despite opinions to the contrary, Peggys sure this was no accident, and its time to investigate. Because a dirty little secret from the past is about to explode in tomorrows tabloid scandal--stunning the innocent, rocking the righteous, and driving someone to desperation. . .and murder.

Once upon a Crime (Peggy O'Neill Mystery)

Cold Comfort (Peggy O'Neill Mystery)

Poisoned Ivy (Peggy O'Neill Mystery)

Death Calls the Tune (Peggy O'Neill Mystery)

MURDER WRITES THE SCORE Campus cop Peggy O'Neil doesn't hesitate to chase burglars alone in the middle of the night among the ivied halls of academia, but she isn't at all happy about being ordered to investigate the death of Evan Turner, former director of the University's music school. When Turner's body was found washed up on the shore of Lake Superior, most people who knew him assumed he'd jumped to his death from one of the cliffs. It's easy to see why, since he'd been going through a devastating midlife crisis that had destroyed his marriage and stalled his career.

Peggy is a reluctant investigator until she meets the dead man's daughter, who doesn't believe her father's death was an accident or suicide. She lives with the nightmare that her mother may have killed him. So Peggy digs into Turner's life to try to put the child's fears to rest. She learns that not only he made bitter enemies within the music school, but he'd also gotten himself involved with a gang of thieves-one of whom just may have led him to a fatal encounter with the past.

Grave Choices (Peggy O'Neill Mystery)

A Gift for Murder (Peggy O'Neill Mystery)

The discovery of Cameron Harris's body has stunned the unversity. But some members of The Tower Writers' Collective are more than a bit relieved that the poison pen of the bestselling author has been silenced. Tamara Meade, the Tower's headstrong leader, has a history with the writer she'd just as soon keep secret. Poetess Melody Carr has plenty to hide--and a jealous husband as well. In fact, the suspect list reads like a Who's Who at the university, and campus cop Peggy O'Neill is making it her business to find out who is this elite crowd of authors and academics has resorted to censorship through murder.

Amends for Murder (Peggy O'Neill Mysteries, Book 1)

Murder By Mail (A Peggy O'Neill Mystery)