Cluttered Crime Mysteries Series

It's going to take more than carefully labeled boxes to sort through the clues of this homicide . . Professional organizer Crystal Ward knows she can make a success of her new business, Organizing Chicago. The extra income would allow her to renovate her own home, full of more cluttered spaces than she'd ever admit to her clients. But her life wasn't always this disorganized. Five years ago her husband, Rick, a Chicago police detective, was shot while chasing a suspect. Now a paraplegic, he's wary of her going into strangers' homes . . . and for good reason. When Crys discovers a dead man in a client's living room, she refuses to accept that the murder is an open-and-shut case of domestic violence. If she can untangle this mess, she can prove her client's innocence and ease Rick's fears. But the only witness to the murder is hospitalized in a catatonic state. And the lead detective is Rick's former partner, the man Crys blames for his paralysis. Crys is on her own to save her client from jail and stop a murderer intent on tidying up loose ends. Contains mature themes.

Can she get the right read on this situation before someone ruins the ending? Professional organizer Crystal Ward is at a crossroads with her business, Organizing Chicago. Her husband, Rick, isn't on board with online advertising, and their friends and family are running out of referrals. And now her client's husband is outraged to learn that Crys donated novels he had promised to his brother. Crys's only hope of salvaging the situation is to recover the titles. But she shouldn't have judged those books by their covers. The secret they contain is valuable, and she's not the only one trying to find them. What's more, she's now hiding a secret of her own. She'd promised Rick, a former homicide detective, that she'd avoid sketchy situations that could land her in danger. Her best move? To team up with a retired detective, who suddenly has his own agenda. With danger mounting, she must use all of her sleuthing skills to sort out friend from foe and fact from fiction before a killer can write her own final chapter. Contains mature themes.

Not all clutter is visible to the human eye . . . Professional organizer Crystal Ward's latest client, her neighbor Roscoe Tremaine, is changing his will, an announcement that sets off an explosive reaction within his family. That same night, a gas leak ignites, destroying his house, killing him, and rocking the Ward family at its foundation. Her husband, Rick, is injured in the blast, so Crys hires Roscoe's former caregiver, Wink Keller, to help him recover after surgery. But trouble is just beginning. Both Crys and Wink are beneficiaries in Roscoe's will, and their alliance sends accusations flying from the Tremaines' side of the fence. Crys has her hands full dealing with her client's not-so-grieving relatives, a teenaged girl stalking Wink, and a suspicious fire inspector. But when threatening "gifts" left on the Wards' doorstep escalate, Crys is forced to sort through a tangled web of relationships, including her own, to keep her family safe. Was Roscoe's death just an accident, or is there a killer close to home? Contains mature themes.