Sharp Investigations

They got kicked out of the military. Now she and her uncontrollable K-9 are headed straight for small-town scandals... Cynthia Sharp is a terrible soldier. So it's no surprise when her four-year Army career finishes with a bang, a government Jeep in flames, and a discharge. But when a new job search in her over-the-top Ohio hometown leads to stolen-bingo-money intrigue, she and her pup are soon caught up in chaos. Desperate for an escape from her parents' adventurous lifestyle, Cynthia works to track down why a muffin-loving reverend is dead, the identity of the guy posing as his brother, and how her best friend wound up in jail. But her detecting efforts spiral out of control as her four-legged sidekick causes mass destruction...and too many men are aiming to distract her. Can a disaster-prone amateur sleuth somehow sniff out the truth? Barking for Business is the outrageous first book in the Sharp Investigations mystery. If you like absurd characters, sticky situations, and unexpected explosions, then you'll love E. N. Crane's spunky crime-fighting adventure.Buy Barking for Business to dig up the clues today!

A night Cynthia "Cyn" Sharp doesn't remember and a building burned to the ground. Celebrating Cyn's new sister-in-law should have been unforgettable... but after her mom spiked the brownies, no one remembers quite what happened, least of all Cyn. Which is very important when she's arrested for Arson. As small fires spring up all over town, and no one is quite sure why, Cyn and Winnie will work to find the arsonist without having to remember too much about the night in question.

Nothing good lasts forever... Cynthia "Cyn" Sharp and Winnie are in a good place with their friends, family and the town's nut jobs begging for help. Her relationship with Larry Kirby is going well, she hasn't needed stitches in at least a month, and her coffee stores are bursting. Until it all goes wrong. Now she's searching for missing Canadians, working on a security detail for a supposed diplomat, and falling down the rabbit hole of the adult film industry... the senior's adult film industry. If that wasn't bad enough, someone wants to unearth a secret, decades buried, that promises to destroy everything she loves.

History is just a story. The villains and the heroes are decided by whoever holds the pen, the opposite side unable to fact check. Usually because they're dead. Cynthia "Cyn" Sharp is used to being talked about. Chased off by chicken farmers, strippers, and oversharing medical professionals, every ridiculous story true and embarrassingly accurate. But what if the most important story is the one no one is telling- and it ruined a man's life. Dr. Robert Denicourt just wants to bring his father home, but the demons haunting him are twenty years old. No one questioned the reports by which he was sentenced but it's not too late to give him his life back, if only he could let go of the past. Serving those who served has a cost, and Cyn and Winnie are putting themselves in the crosshairs to restore a lost soldiers honor.

Something's rotten in the state of Denmark... or, Ohio. Something besides Sgt. Winnifred Pupperson's farts and whatever Mrs. Margot puts in her egg salad. Cynthia "Cyn" Sharp has been struggling to pick up the pieces... of her shattered coffee mug collection, the pile of applications Winnie destroyed for a replacement "intern" and what's left of her sanity. A plea for help to find a missing construction working stripper leads Cyn and Winnie down the rabbit hole of building, planning, and the mysteriously non-existent housing. Add Stella's concern about the health of her Special Ed students and there's no time for sleep. Not that she was doing that anyway. But the closer Cyn and Winnie come to finding out the answer, the farther they get from safety. The dynamic duo will stop at nothing to bring health and safety back to their community, even if it costs them everything.

Someone was murdered, and everyone's dirty laundry is on display. When a gossip reporter is found dead in her office, Retired Military Police Cynthia Sharp is excited to kick back and read the headlines with the rest of the town. Except, the rest of the town had reason to murder her and they all want Cyn and her K-9 partner, Sgt. Winnie to prove it wasn't them. Proof that's hard to come by when box after box shows that the reporter made her income doing more than writing. Scandals, sex and a secret scheme will challenge Cyn to find a murderer, without getting murdered herself.

A mob of chickens and an army of characters in black. Just when Sweet Pea, OH seems to have reached peek levels of ridiculous, someone sells a toy-sized house for a full-sized price. Cynthia "Cyn" Sharp and Winnie are aiming to sniff out the truth, right after another cup of coffee. Real estate fraud isn't the only case knocking down Cyn's door when a con artist uses her address to steal from people who can't afford to stop them. Add in accusations of petty theft, fake body parts and a few too many brawls and Cyn and Winnie have their hands full.