West River Mysteries
Book 1: See Jane Run
It is 1977, and 21-year-old amateur sleuth, Jane Newell, plans to seize life and make it her own. Jane has accepted a teaching position in the small rustic town of Little Missouri, South Dakota. However, she’s not the only subject of local gossip. Round the Bend Bar and Café buzzes with talk of a recent tragedy—a hit and run murder that left one of her new students without a mother and the whole community restless for answers.
Amidst the scenic wonder of this quirky little corner of western South Dakota, Jane begins her new life knowing that someone close to her was undoubtedly a killer, and she is determined to find out who it is.
Book 2: See Jane Sing
With three months of teaching and one solved mystery under her belt, Jane Newell is back. In short order her Beetle plows into a snowbank, her most rambunctious student hijacks the country school Christmas program, and she stumbles over the body of a teenage boy. Though Sheriff Rick Sternquist warns her not to investigate, Jane ignores his advice.
With the help of cranky school janitor Velma Albright, switchboard operator Betty Yarborough, and neighbor Merle Laird, Jane closes in on the killer and sings her way into the hearts of the community she now calls home.
Book 3: See Jane Dance
1978 is only a few days old when Jane Newell stumbles over a body on her way to Round the Bend, Little Missouri, South Dakota’s most popular (and only) bar and cafe.
Soon she’s juggling not only a murder investigation, but also the addition of four kindergarteners to her lively country school classroom.
Thanks to weekly square dance lessons paid for by her mother, the town switchboard operator, and the school janitor, all of them determined to kick start her romantic life, she’s also fending off eligible bachelors right and left.
Jane braves bone-chilling temperatures, dangerous snowstorms, and town gossip as she and the sheriff zero in on a killer who’s dancing too close for comfort.
Book 4: See Jane Dig
1978 is only a few days old when Jane Newell stumbles over a body on her way to Round the Bend, Little Missouri, South Dakota’s most popular (and only) bar and cafe.
Soon she’s juggling not only a murder investigation, but also the addition of four kindergarteners to her lively country school classroom.
Thanks to weekly square dance lessons paid for by her mother, the town switchboard operator, and the school janitor, all of them determined to kick start her romantic life, she’s also fending off eligible bachelors right and left.
Jane braves bone-chilling temperatures, dangerous snowstorms, and town gossip as she and the sheriff zero in on a killer who’s dancing too close for comfort.
