Whispers Series

When you’re dead, you’re dead. That’s it. Nothing more. At least that’s what Quinn O’Reilly thinks. But then she starts hearing whispers after losing Matthew, the love of her life, to cancer. Quinn either has to start believing in an afterlife or admit that her own sanity is in jeopardy. As Matthew’s parents fight Quinn for his estate, threatening her with financial ruin, the voices intensify. To make the voices stop, Quinn enlists the help of a woman who communicates with the afterlife, the owner of a cemetery, and an odd professor of Egyptian studies. They enter a world of séances, grave digging, and spells from the ancient Book of the Dead. To help her do this, Quinn turns to Chaz, her gay best friend and assistant at work. He has been by her side from the beginning and as bizarre as Chaz believes this task is, he follows Quinn, Andjela, Chester and Mr. Princeton into the world of spirits, ghosts and specters. He just never knows what to wear. What’s appropriate attire for a séance or digging up a grave? What Quinn and the others must do to unravel the mystery of the whispers tests Quinn’s belief system in every way. Can the dead really reach out from the other side? Can Quinn open her mind enough to help her and her dead lover? And, is it okay to commit a crime for a greater purpose?

Finding clues in the shoes of a dead man in a coffin wasn’t what Quinn thought she would do when she became a mortician. She also didn’t expect the bodies that entered her funeral home to have lived their lives as bad men or to whisper their requests to her—not only demands that she has to fulfill to get them to stop, but ones that might lead her to commit acts on the wrong side of the law. The spirit of a mob boss has entered Quinn O’Reilly’s funeral parlor and his whispers drag her into a world of criminals, secrets and lies. Once again, she enlists the help of her friends—Andjela, a communicator with the dead, Mr. Princeton, a professor of Egyptian studies at the local university, Chester, the owner of the town cemetery and Chaz, her best friend and assistant—to find the clues that will lead her to what the dead man wants. She realizes that she can’t answer the whispers alone which force her to put her friends in danger. Soon she finds it’s not only the dead Mafia boss that wants something from her, but so does his wife, his mistress and strange, dark men in dark suits. To make matters worse, Quin is realizing that the whispers of spirits aren’t going to go away. Neither is the specter that still haunts her apartment.

Once again, Quinn hears the whispers of the dead, but when it follows her on a trip to New York City with Andjela and Chaz to help her parents find a missing girl, Quin realizes the whisper is that of the missing girl, Sofia. The niece of Eleanor, the last spirit to elicit Quinn’s help, Sofia had somehow gotten mixed up in her family’s Mafia mess. Now she is dead. Quinn summons Mr. Princeton and Chester to New York City to help them communicate with Sofia. Together, they must follow the clues to find Sofia’s body and the cause of her death. Who is really responsible for the murder of a young girl? What was Sofia hiding that got her killed? Will Quinn and her friends find her and what it was she was hiding? And why are there two different black SUV’s that show up where ever they are? Follow Quinn, Andjela, Mr. Princeton, Chester and Chaz into two very menacing worlds-that of the Mafia and of the dead, and discover the newest hiding spot—a very large hole in Brooklyn.

Eleanor’s spirit is doing a lot of griping in Quinn’s funeral home. She was the wife of a member of the Mafia who was murdered several years prior and now she wants something from Quinn. Her best friend nicknamed her “Mafia magnet” since this is the second spirit to contact her who is connected to the mob. She knows she is destined to a life of answering their ghostly requests but she wonders if all the spirits that contact her will always be on the wrong side of the law. Once again, Quinn must put her friends in danger to help her decipher the clues Eleanor’s spirit has communicated to them. It leads them to the now defunct, dark, and foreboding subway tunnels beneath the city where they discover they’re not the only one’s searching for whatever Eleanor has hidden. There’s a war going on in the tunnels and they can’t tell who’s winning—the ghosts or the Mafia. What will happen if the war in the tunnel keeps them from finding the answers to Eleanor’s clues? Will the price they have to pay for being in the middle of it be too much for Quinn to handle?

The world of the dead comes naturally to Quinn. She owns a funeral home complete with the ghost of a young girl that tells Quinn she is not leaving. She has a specter residing in her apartment that sends her messages by rearranging the contents of her dining room. The problem? Quin is often contacted by the souls of the dead who want her to fulfill their request, except the spirits who contact her are all on the criminal side of life—part of the Mafia, and with them come the living members of the same organization. Fulfilling their ghostly requests so they will move on to the afterlife and leave her alone, Quinn has a close circle of friends who help her to solve their puzzles while trying to avoid the complications of the living, criminal world who want the same things the spirits do. But now, spirits are restless. Not only do they want something from Quinn, they want her to know something. Because of it, Quinn faces the most difficult puzzle of all--one that has the spirits and the Mafia in chaos. One that will make her question everything. And now, the only thing that is important is that she protects her friends. Not from the dead. From the living.

Quinn O’Reilly never thought she would be wrapped up in the world of the mafia, dead or alive, but there she was. It wasn't something she set out to do, or went to college for, but one day, she became the broker for spirits of the criminal kind having to fulfill their unearthly requests. And while the villainous souls searched her out, the live crooks found her as well. As the two worlds collided, her life turned upside down when she discovered her biological father was the boss of a New York City mafia family. Despite all this, she and her eccentric group of friends set out to help the spirit of a mother who was connected to the mob, save her two children. It would be a séance like no other they had ever done before. Yet through the chaos, their nemesis, Jackie Brown continued to plague Quinn. A woman of evil that knew no bounds, she wanted something this mother had that ended up in Quinn’s hands. Jackie would stop at nothing to gain possession of it. While this all played out, Quinn finally found new love—a police officer of all people, and she fell hard. She realized it would be almost impossible to enter into a long-term relationship with a man of the law considering her life was so surrounded by evil. Quinn learned this the hard way because Jackie who would never let it happen. Revenge was never something Quinn thought about. Her Irish parents raised her to be a good, kind and forgiving soul. But when Jackie crossed the line and her biological father showed his true colors, would the walls upholding her moral values begin to crumble?