Roseland

No one is more shocked than Ginger Mitchell, former call girl, current PI, at how well this whole crime-fighting thing is going. In the short time since she returned home to Portland, she's taken down an entire crime ring and exposed a corrupt police department. Not bad for her first year on the job. But it's not like all that success made Ginger's life easier. Hired hit men are after her. Darlene, the boss who killed her mother, is still at large. Ginger's brother is missing. There's a gang war brewing. Worst of all, people keep turning up dead on rooftops. With their hearts cut out. Can Ginger save her brother, save the city, and finally put an end to Darlene? Or will Ginger end up just like her mother: a ghost? Includes the next six novellas in the Roseland series, Typhoid Larry, So Tong, Farewell, Death Comes from Behind, Scratch 'n' Snitch, Slightly Off-Killer, and To Unleash the Beast.

Secret societies, serial killers, and a seriously snarky PI. When Ginger Mitchell finds out her mother committed suicide, she packs up her life as a Vegas "dancer" (hey, somebody's gotta do it) and drives her cherry-red SUV straight home to Portland. Without a disapproving mom to rebel against, what was the point? When she arrives back in her hometown, she finds a lot more going on than fancy food trucks and put-a-bird-on-it hipsters. Murders are being passed off as suicides. College-aged women keep going missing. And then there's the troubling spate of mobsters who keep inviting her out to eat. With a pile of cash saved from her last job and no one around to tell her not to, Ginger decides to become a private investigator, to find out exactly what's gone wrong in the City of Roses. First up: Her mother's "suicide." Includes the first six novellas in the Roseland series, Home Is Where the Start Is, The Ruth Is Out There, The Body in the Pool, Amber Alert, Jane Dead, Welcome to Roseland.