A Discount Detective Mystery Series

When single mom and recent widow Cameron Chandler takes a much-needed job at Penny-wise Investigations, a detective agency conveniently located in a suburban shopping mall, she grabs the chance to reinvent herself. Her first case is to locate a runaway girl, something her predecessor had been pursuing before he disappeared. Following in his footsteps, the trail leads to a survivalist camp on a remote island in northern Puget Sound. Armed with only a Swiss Army Knife and her quirky on-the-job training as a suburban sleuth, Cameron uncovers more than she bargained for. She soon finds herself in a fight for her own survival in this lighthearted mystery set in Seattle and the San Juan Islands to the north.

Single mom, Cameron Chandler, is on her way to work at Penny-wise Investigations, a discount detective agency conveniently located in a suburban shopping mall, when she comes across a crying woman. It' s not in her DNA to ignore another person' s misery, so she stops to see if she can help. The woman ends up hiring Penny-wise to keep an eye on her niece during an upcoming re-enactment of a human sacrifice ritual during a full moon. The Full Moon Society' s charismatic leader has convinced the client' s niece, Tilly Jamison, that she should allow herself to be drugged to make playing the part of the sacrificial victim more realistic. Cameron and her colleague, Yuri Webster, follow the participants to the park where the midnight re-enactment is to be held. Under the full moon, two things happen that turn a simple assignment into a complex and dangerous investigation: Tilly disappears after the ceremony, and a man is stabbed to death with an antique dagger. Tilly has been kidnapped, not for ransom, but by someone obsessed with her. A witness claims she saw Tilly and her boyfriend fighting before the ceremony, and the murder victim was her boyfriend. The police aren' t sure whether Tilly is a victim or an accomplice. Cameron and her colleague, Yuri, rescue Tilly from her kidnapper and then try to help prove her innocence. Their investigation takes them to a climate change rally put on by eco-feminists where an explosion results in Cameron being arrested for reckless endangerment. The story ends with a confrontation between Cameron, armed with a hand-held mixer, and the murderer wielding a chef' s knife. In the epilogue, three Penny-wise employees try once again to learn more about their mysterious and secretive boss, P.W. Griffin. And once again, she foils their efforts.

When two investigators, Cameron Chandler and Yuri Webster, discover a body next to a pile of stolen signs, what began as a prank becomes a murder investigation. The campaign for the U.S. Congressional seat was referred to in the press as "Mr. Smith goes to Washington versus the carpetbagger." The local candidate gets all of the endorsements, but he can't compete with the unlimited resources of his opponent. Funded by an east coast family in the oil business, the out-of-state candidate takes the state by storm, marrying the daughter of a local prestigious family and flooding the airwaves with ads, many of them negative. Cameron and Yuri soon find themselves targets in a battle between the local candidate, big oil interests and anti-big oil activists, and they discover that there is no doubt that Campaigning Can Be Deadly.

A shooter shatters the suburban calm in a mall . . . Single mom, Cameron Chandler, an investigator with Penny-wise Investigations, a discount detective agency conveniently located in a suburban mall, is approaching her office when gunshots echo off the mall walls, and she sees a young man collapse just a few feet away. Chaos breaks out in the packed mall as people try to escape. Cameron kneels beside the gunshot victim and is grabbed from behind by a man she fears is the shooter. As he forcibly drags her toward the mall exit, she suddenly realizes who he is—Gary, a man who once saved her life.Once outside, Gary admits that he was the shooter's target. He and three associates had engaged in what they thought was a legitimate but secret operation only to find themselves caught in a quagmire of government intrigue and covert manipulation. She agrees to help by taking care of his dog while he investigates why someone is trying to eliminate them.After Cameron agrees to foster Gary's large dog Bandit, someone shows up at Penny-wise with a description of Bandit, claiming that he wants them to locate “his” dog and Cameron realizes that she and her family could be in danger.Next, a woman claiming to be with the FBI wants to talk with Cameron about Gary, but her boss at Penny-Wise decides it's time the agency steps in to investigate what's going on.