“Humor, honesty, mystery, a touch of romance . . . Yearning for God, trying to please Him, and getting frustrated by failure.”

“Realism meets intelligence, humor, and faith!”

All Salem Grimes expects as she walks into church is her regular Tuesday morning AA meeting. When she encounters a dead body instead, she does what any self-respecting clueless amateur would do — she flaps around, shouting words good Christians aren’t even supposed to know.

But when Salem learns that her ex-husband Tony is accused of the murder, she wonders if God might be steering her toward a chance of helping him. A chance, even, of redeeming herself — or at least a chance to…

Another day, another dead body. It’s all in a day of the life of Salem Grimes.

Salem Grimes figures even a God who works in mysterious ways wouldn’t resort to a dead body in a dumpster in answer to Salem’s prayers to help her stay on her diet – excuse me – Strat-EAT-Gic plan. But a dead body in a dumpster it is, and now Salem and Viv, her octogenarian partner-in-crime-solving, are on the case once again.

Salem finds the search for the killer a satisfactory distraction from…

Armed with Salem’s “Smart-Enuff” phone and Viv’s racing model Cadillac (with aggressive acceleration!), these two amateur super-sleuths set out to catch a gang of armed robbers terrorizing G-Ma’s neighborhood… if for no other reason than to stop G-Ma’s panic-stricken calls every time a car drives by.

The only problem: they have no leads, no clues, and they accidentally got arrested for “moral crimes.” Will these bandits…

A British silver fox has moved into the Belle Court Retirement Center, and octogenarian amateur sleuth Viv Kennedy is crushing on him hard. Unfortunately, he appears singularly unimpressed with Viv’s overnight adoption of every British phrase she knows (and a few she’s, admittedly, unclear on.)

Maybe if she and Salem Grimes can solve the murder of the hotshot TV reporter Peter Browning, she can catch his eye.

The fact that Peter’s death has not been ruled a murder is a minor consideration.

Salem is certainly willing to help Viv land Nigel the Brit. After all, it will make her best friend happy. It will also make her husband happy — Tony is under the impression that if Viv finds a man and settles down, Salem will stop chasing bad guys down dark alleys with her. But Salem…

After nearly two years of hard-fought sobriety, Salem Grimes thinks she’s on the right track to reclaim a ‘normal’ life, with her husband, Tony, by her side. She is ready to take a break from her amateur sleuth adventures with her octogenarian partner-in-crime-solving friend, Viv, and work on building a family of her own. Until ghosts from her past reappear. A teenage girl has run away and no one has a clue where she could be. But Salem fears she knows what the girl ran from. They share a mutual acquaintance who left deep scars on Salem’s heart. Embarking on a road trip to search for the missing girl, Salem faces down a gang of bullying raccoons and her own flaring addictions on her mission to right the wrongs that weigh on her. Will finding the runaway girl allow Salem to heal from the...

Anyone who knows anything about Texas knows there is precious little that’s more important than football. Pro football, college football, peewee football, it doesn’t matter. If it’s an egg-shaped ball, Texans are all over it.

But there is one very particular football – this is the ball that a former Texas Tech Red Raider caught during last year’s Super Bowl game and ran into the end zone for the game-winning touchdown. As footballs go, it doesn’t get much more important than…

Salem Grimes and her octogenarian friend Viv are back in this fun short story, this time kicking butt and rescuing kidnap victims. Well, this is actually a case of dognapping. At least the reward is real… but is it enough to face the gun-toting dognapper?

Armed with the strongest weapon available, Salem and Viv save the day once again, using…

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