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Helen Goltz
Miss Phoebe Astin of The Economic Undertaker has always spoken with spirits as they leave this life on their way to the next, so a visit from a senior nurse…
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From author Helen Goltz, the fifth book in the exciting mystery series about love, fate, and putting to rest more than the dead.
Accustomed to speaking with spirits as they…
At the book launch of his father’s biography, the stilted footage of Holocaust survivors is projected behind Benjamin Hoefer. As the video comes to an end, it closes in on…
All three books in the Mitchell Parker Crime Thrillers series by Helen Goltz, now in one volume!
Mastermind: A website inviting players to mastermind the perfect crime is the facade…
Fate comes to call in the fourth and final volume of The Clairvoyant's Glasses.
Since accepting the cursed glasses bequeathed by her Great Aunt Daphne giving her the gift of…
Miss Matilda Hayward has been assigned her first book review for the Women’s Journal newspaper and she is very much enjoying Mr Linton Turner’s novel, The Pyjama Girl Mystery, until…
Accepting the glasses bequeathed by her Aunt Daphne that gave her the gift of clairvoyance, Sophie has to decide will she continue acting or will she fill Daphne’s shoes, including…
Matilda Hayward has a nose for a story which serves her well as a writer for the Women’s Journal. Volunteering at the Asylum, she is thrust into the mystery of…
Jesse Clarke’s 10-year school reunion boasted a few shocks - and that didn’t include Jesse running a publicity and private investigator business. The talk of the reunion was Alex Bryson…
Beautiful muse, Miss Sapphire Reubens, the inspiration for her lover’s latest art exhibition, is missing - items of her clothing found in the river. Worryingly, Miss Matilda Hayward and her…
Now on exhibition for a few days only, the strange, the wonderful, sights you have never beheld before - Burnham’s Freak Show. Including Mrs Anna Tufton, the Giantess.
Matilda Hayward…
Sam Garson had a fur ball stuck in his throat. He blamed his best friend, Dan Lin, who had a problem of a different kind - feathers that sprouted from…
Miss Phoebe Astin and her brothers, Julius and Ambrose, lead an unconventional life working in the family funeral business - The Economic Undertaker. For the Astin family, being dead is…
When Mrs Tochborn appears in spirit form and asks mortician and medium, Phoebe Astin, of The Economic Undertaker to help her, a cold case warms up! For the Astin family…
Miss Matilda Hayward has a wedding to plan and while ordering her bridal bouquet in Bridal Lane, she finds a note in her sample bouquet requesting a liaison. Innocently believing…
On Valentine’s Day 1900, three schoolgirls and a teacher disappear while on a school outing in Victoria. Joan Lindsay captured this story in her 1967 novel, Picnic at Hanging Rock…
Catherine JamesonN30, a widow in hidingNdoesn’t know what happened that night. Two bodies found: her husband and his ex-lover. Was it a murder-suicide or an accidental death and suicide? Or…
You think you are just playing a game online; masterminding the perfect crime. But something is not right.
A website inviting players to come up with the perfect crime is…
Private investigator, Jesse Clarke, thought sugar was such a friendly substance, until it appears in two of her cases for all the wrong reasons.
A man hanged himself in the front room of the now abandoned old mansion; Rachael Price, along with everyone in the village, knew the story. But that was a long…
The stilted footage of Holocaust survivors marching through the gates of Auschwitz projects behind Benjamin Hoefer at the book launch of his father, Eli’s biography. As it comes to the…
Death by Disguise: The dead are walking and it is not even Halloween! Private investigator Jesse Clarke knew it wasn’t going to be a normal week when two dead people…
In her wildest dreams, Ophelia Montague never imagined she would leave the city, her friends, her school and move to a seaside village. But when her parents die in an…
When Sophie Carell was eight-years-old, her eccentric, clairvoyant great aunt, Daphne, predicted Sophie would be one of the greatest clairvoyants of her time. Sophie wanted to be a movie star…
Below the surface of the ocean, off the shores of Cape Hatteras, lie the bodies of many ships that never made it to shore and something more … silent and…
Off the shores of Cape Hatteras, deep below the surface, lie the bodies of ships that never made it back to land… and with them, something silent and sinister.
Two…
O primeiro amor de Ophelia pode ser o ultimo. Nos seus sonhos mais loucos, Ophelia Montague nunca imaginou que deixaria a cidade e os seus amigos e se mudaria para…
Miss Phoebe Astin of The Economic Undertaker has applied her mortician skills to many faces but a beautiful young debutante needed little work, or so she thought. When the debutante's…
Sophie Carrell is being lauded as the hottest clairvoyant in town - in talent and looks! But there's a complication... Sophie is losing her heart to Detective Ashcroft, and an…
A web site inviting game players to mastermind the perfect crime is more than a game, much more! It is the facade for billionaire Lawrence Hackett’s real-life invitation-only competition to…
Helen Goltz,Chris Adams
‘Grave Tales: Melbourne Vol. 1’ visits eleven Melbourne cemeteries to tell the stories of ordinary people caught up in extraordinary events that made local and national headlines. They may have…
