Avalon Books

Who stabbed Manuel Ruiz, the 18-year-old son of highly respected State Senator Ernesto Ruiz, leaving him to die in a Manhattan alley? Police suspect it’s a gang murder when they find a jacket at the scene, bearing the emblem of Las Serpientes, a street gang...

Who poisoned billionaire playboy and notorious womanizer Theodore Van Brunt Ormsby?Liz Rooney, a feisty young woman with a passion for following sensational murder cases, believes the killer is one of Ormsby’s many cast-off paramours. Her own prime suspect is a beautiful, unidentified female seen entering...

United States Senator Jason Ritchie is the contender for his party’s presidential nomination, running on his spotless moral reputation—until he is found shot to death in his Waldorf hotel suite with a woman who is not his wife. Amateur snoop Liz Rooney’s hobby of trying...

Handsome, young country rock star, Buford Doakes, is found drowned in the hot tub of his hotel suite after a late-night party. With the deck in disarray and Doakes’ famous diamond studded Stetson still intact, foul play is obvious but his image as a wholesome...

One afternoon during play practice, the dramatics teacher at Manhattan’s prestigious Chadwick Academy, Marva Malin is found strangled and laying in a pool of blood on the auditorium floor, having been thrown over the balcony rail. Liz Rooney, an assistant to the coroner, is on...

A killer is prowling New York City’s Lexington Avenue subway line during rush hours, stalking young women with red hair and injecting them with a syringe full of a lethal substance. The subway murder of three redheads within two days throws the city’s red-haired women...

Liz Rooney, amateur sleuth, sat bolt upright when she heard the news that Manhattan socialite Countess Harriet Hunterdon Zanardi had been found dead in her bedroom due to a suspicious fire. Instinctively, Liz knows that the socialite has been murdered and decides to make the...

When real estate tycoon Gregory Maybanks is found bludgeoned to death in the study of his Manhattan residence, the murder weapon is believed to be a missing bronze bookend in the shape of a winged dragon. Suspicion centers on members of the Maybanks family and...