Doreen Sizemore Adventures

What's a church supposed to do on a Sunday morning when the preacher disappears? The Little Faith Church of South Shore, Kentucky, is shocked when their minister, the Reverend Jimmy Bell, doesn't show up to preach his sermon. The whole town is mystified until their reluctant amateur sleuth, Doreen Sizemore, discovers a clue.

California is the last place on earth Kentucky native, Doreen Sizemore, ever wants to go. People are a little crazy out there. But when her cousin, Agnes, begs her to come along on a train trip to San Francisco, Doreen has to go. After all, blood kin is blood kin and her cousin needs help. Agnes is accompanying her elderly, ex-con husband, who is suddenly determined to visit Alcatraz, the island where he spent ten years of his life. The trip is almost enjoyable until Doreen discovers that sometimes old cons have old friends who are dangerously alive.

When seventy-five-year-oldDoreenSizemore reluctantly agrees to spend Thanksgiving with her stepdaughter in New York City, she expects the worst. After all, she hasn't set foot in the Big Apple since a terrifying high school trip over fifty years ago. But what starts as a simple holiday visit turns deadly when a desperate encounter in Penn Station pulls her into a dangerous web.Armed with nothing but her Kentucky common sense and a mysterious envelope thrust into her hands by a dying woman,Doreenmust navigate a city she fears while protecting vital evidence. Her only ally is her stepdaughter Stella, a respected physician with connections to the police chief's wife.With its unforgettable protagonist, sharp wit, and heartwarming exploration of family bonds, "Murder in New York City" delivers a compelling mystery that proves sometimes the best detectives can come from the smallest towns.

Seventy-five-year-oldDoreenSizemore has no business gallivanting around Egypt, but here she isdragged on a tour group by her eager cousin Wanda. Between dodging pushy street vendors, trying not to pass out from the heat, and having to ride a cranky camel,Doreenfigures things can't get much worse.Then someone gets murdered, a priceless artifact vanishes, and suddenly this Kentucky woman finds herself tangled in an international conspiracy where nothingand no oneis quite what they seem.She may be a long way from the Ohio River, butDoreen's about to prove that Southern sass and common sense work just fine in the shadow of the pyramids.

Doreen Sizemore is tougher than an old hickory stump and more opinionated than a pulpit-pounding preacher. The only thing Doreen hates worse than stumbling over a rattlesnake sunning itself in her bean patch is finding another dead body. Her hardscrabble life in South Shore, Kentucky, makes her an unlikely sleuth, but every time Doreen leaves home, she ends up trying to solve another murder mystery.