Hannah Tree: Private Detective

Hannah Tree is barely holding it together. Haunted by fears that she may cause someone's death, she has withdrawn from her thriving detective business and even struggles to manage her backstage job at the vibrant Starr Follies theatre.When a young actress, Eliza Mount, begs Hannah for help, Hannah brushes it off-until Eliza vanishes. Suddenly, cases start to pile up: a stalking case gets heavy, an elderly client fears a relative wants her dead, and several young actors go missing.With her trusted friend Damian undercover and in danger, Hannah discovers one of her own family is descending into madness, and a devastating betrayal pushes her close to the edge.She fights to keep herself together for her clients' sakes, but the deeper she digs, the darker and more complicated their secrets become.A tense, emotional mystery, STOLEN DREAMS is the third book in Deirdre Oliver's Hannah Tree series.

Private detective Hannah Tree thought her troubles were behind her, until she finds herself tangled in a case far more dangerous than anything she's faced before.A desperate mother searches for her lost daughter. Street kids are going missing. These kids bear identical tattoos and scars and speak of strange things-like "elders" and "soul police." Hannah suspects a cult, and when their bodies start turning up, she knows time is running out.Teaming up with allies old and new - including a former cult member with a haunting past - Hannah follows the trail of clues into an isolated mountain stronghold. They will have one chance to expose the cult's web of abuse... but a single wrong move could cost them everything.A tense mystery with razor-sharp twists, WHERE EVIL TREADS is the fourth book in Deirdre Oliver's Hannah Tree: Private Detective series.

A lost lover, murder, kidnapping and the dumbest crooks in town. Another day in the life of Hannah Tree.Just weeks before Starr Follies' new show's opening night, Marky, a leading dancer, begins behaving erratically. Hannah discovers that the obnoxious Marky's fiancé, Alan, is missing.Marky thinks there's foul play. Hannah doesn't. Until a ransom note arrives. Hannah still believes Alan is behind a scam to extort Marky so she sets a trap. Instead, the kidnappers kidnap her. They're desperate small-timers hiding from a mobster whose daughter, Freba, they helped run away.Now, Freba has vanished, and to save themselves they hire Hannah to track her down. But to do that Hannah must outwit two crime families, recover a stolen masterpiece, and somehow survive long enough to get paid. With a gang war brewing around her, Hannah is about to find out just how hard this can be.

Secrets. Changes. Murderers. Business as usual for Hannah Tree.Back home from Guatemala, Hannah has her own secret. At six months pregnant, she's already pushing it when she agrees to help an elderly woman accused of murdering her sister in a nursing home. She's pushed further when she discovers her brother is in a coma.What looks like a domestic crime unravels into something far darker when witnesses begin to die. Clues point toward encrypted files and vanished children, seemingly linked by a single enigmatic word.While Hannah works to link a slew of clues, the death toll rises and she becomes aware she is being hunted by a powerful and deadly enemy. She is torn between her ambivalence towards her pregnancy, her brother's welfare, her toxic family's interference, and the need for truth. Finally, Hannah must decide what she is prepared to risk to solve this case.