Avalon Books

Wally Morris, a nursery school teacher, mother and new grandmother, has a penchant for solving puzzles. She has a desire to help people that borders on meddling and she hates loose ends. The murder of a college freshman and the disappearance of one of Wally’s...

Ladies’ man and top stylist Garth Barkley is stabbed to death with his own shears in front of his own customers. But no one saw a thing. Among the customers is Wally Morris, a reluctant sleuth who has cracked two cases in the past, and...

It was tradition for most of the residents of Grosvenor, NJ to come into the town center for celebrations, eating, enjoying the festivities, and watching the annual Fourth of July fireworks. Except this year it was different. Greedy developer Keith Hollis decided to go up...

Wally Morris helps her young friend Paige Griffin pack up her son and their lives in Manhattan to move to an old mansion on the shores of Lake Champlain. When Wally boards the train to return to New Jersey, she pushes aside her worries about...

In Vengeance Tastes Sweet, the second in the Wally Morris murder series, Beverly Cohen, a local caterer with big aspirations, doesn’t care whose toes she steps on in her quest for success. Her ability to insult people is matched only by her insensitivity to their...