Charlie Parker Mystery Series by Connie Shelton (Book 1-12)
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Overview: Connie Shelton is a bookstore owner, the author of the Charlie Parker Mystery Series and the founder of Intrigue Press. She is a frequent speaker at mystery conventions, and writing and publishing conferences. She and her husband live in northern New Mexico.
Genre: Mystery
1. Deadly Gamble (1995)
What would you do if your former best friend, the one who had eloped withyour fiancé, asked you to take a Deadly Gamble? Albuquerque accountant Charlie Parker doesn’t want to be an investigator.She’s a partner with her brother in a private investigation firm, but she’sonly supposed to handle the financial matters. But Stacy North needs tolocate her missing Rolex watch, and Charlie agrees to help. It turns outthat Stacy was seeing another man, and when that man is found murdered,things really heat up. Stacy is accused of the murder and Charlie feel shemust try to find the real killer.
2. Vacations Can Be Murder (1995)
"Vacations mean different things to different people," says Charlie Parker."There’s the planning, the packing, the anticipation. Then, there’s the latearrival, the sunburn, the fuzzy pictures. In my case, add a romance with agood-looking pilot and fourteen stitches in the back of my skull." Charlie’s Hawaiian vacation doesn’t turn out quite like she planned. Herfirst day there, she takes a helicopter ride. She and pilot, Drake Langston,see a dead body lying on the rugged rocks below. When Drake’s friend, Mack,is arrested for the murder, Charlie agrees to help find the real killer. She discovers that everything in the tourist business is not what it seems.And that Mack might have had a very good reason to kill.
3. Partnerships Can Kill (1997)
Charlie returns from her vacation to find her brother involved with a deceitful younger woman. Is it just mid-life crisis, or something more sinister? When a friend’s business partner is murdered, Charlie’s investigation uncovers tax fraud, high level political connections, and duplicity. The two plots are interwoven right up to the dramatic conclusion.
4. Small Towns Can Be Murder (1998)
Charlie battles a family dispute over gun control, and Drake Langston, thehandsome helicopter pilot she met in Hawaii is coming for a visit,pressuring her to move to the islands with him. Meanwhile, Charlie and herfriend Bertrand visit Sally’s hometown in northern Mexico, only to learnthat a woman has died from a miscarriage. Friends believe her death was fromspousal abuse, but Charlie finds clues that point to something even moreheinous.
5. Memories Can Be Murder (1999)
Down Murder Lane…While stowing boxes away in her attic, Albuquerque CPA Charlie Parker uncovers chilling information about her father – and his work as a scientist during the Cold War years. Worse, she now suspects the fatal plane crash that killed both her parents was murder, and that her father’s employer squashed the investigation. Determined to solve the fifteen-year-old crime, Charlie quickly learns that asking questions is dangerous. Soon, dead ends – and dead bodies – have her worried she’s next on the hit list. But what secret is worth killing for after all this time? And who is worried enough to go to murderous lengths to keep the door to the truth closed? The shocking answers are tied inexorably with the past – and present – and just might cost Charlie her future.
6. Honeymoons Can Be Murder (2001)
Newly married Albuquerque CPA Charlie Parker finds herself honeymooning at the Taos Ski Valley in northern New Mexico when her helicopter pilot husband lands a job ferrying skiers to remote peaks. Though there’s enough romance in the air without a mystery to spice things up, Charlie’s drawn into the complex case of a five-year-old murder. Ski instructor Eloy Romero is arrested for killing his brother when the gun used in the crime mysteriously turns up at a pawnshop. Charlie soon links Father Ramon Romero’s murder to a treasure of stolen Vatican artifacts, and discovers the dead priest was anything but saintly. As the case takes more plunges and turns than a wicked downhill slope, Charlie feels the cold chill of an encroaching killer – prepared to make sure the honeymoon is over . . . permanently.
7. Reunions Can Be Murder (2002)
A Fool And His Money ..Octogenarian Willie McBride has gone missing and now his obnoxious daughter is pestering Albuquerque CPA Charlie Parker to find him in time for the big family reunion. Apparently, the eccentric old man had one driving obsession: finding gold. So Charlie follows Willie’s prospecting trail to the modern-day ghost town of White Oaks – site of an historic gold rush, a bitter scandal, some ugly business . . . and now a corpse. The odd characters still lingering on here in White Oaks have few tales to tell, and Charlie discovers Willie was looking to strike it rich by claiming a legendary fortune buried in the Lost Dutchman Mine. Determined to link Willie’s path with her suspicions of illegal drug doings in the deserted town, she sets out across the searing desert toward the mountains, prepared for anything . . . except murder.
8. Competition Can Be Murder (2004)
Charlie Parker and her husband, Drake, leave sunny New Mexico for a lucrative contract in Scotland, flying helicopters to the North Sea oil rigs. It’s tough enough coping with the temperamental Scottish weather, and worse, the escalating hostilities of the union outfitters who service the rigs. Now, Charlie’s been asked to help solve a kidnapping. The victim is the spoiled grandson of the wealthy but down-to-earth owners of Dunworthy Castle, on whose historic grounds Charlie and Drake are residing. As desperately worried grandparents prepare to meet the huge ransom demands, Charlie’s got a bad feeling about what looks like an amateurish, though deadly, scheme. Yet the real danger for both Charlie and Drake lies in the stormy gray waters of the Atlantic, where death is cold, lonely and the perfect stalking grounds for murder.
9. Balloons Can Be Murder (2005)
Three days before the start of the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta, balloon pilot Rachael Fairfield walks into the offices of RJP Investigations. She received a threatening note, which she believes came from her father, a convicted felon whom she sent to prison 15 years earlier. To complicate matters, her brother has initiated a huge publicity campaign for the world altitude record Rachael plans to attempt on the final Sunday of the fiesta. It seems simple enough. Charlie and her brother Ron will locate William Fairfield and keep him away from Rachael for the duration of the fiesta. But as they follow leads on William Fairfield, the threats escalate, and Ron and Charlie start to wonder whether he’s really the stalker. Amid the color and beauty of the world’s largest ballooning event, Charlie also finds herself at odds with her husband and reassessing her life’s priorities. Only when she nearly loses her own life do the answers begin to fall into place.
10. Obsessions Can Be Murder (2006)
Charlie is on vacation. A cozy cabin, a diner that serves delicious guilty-pleasures, and Drake–all Charlie needs to relax and enjoy herself.
But the town of Watson’s Lake has a little unsolved mystery. Four years ago, a showplace home–beautiful and serene and tucked away on the mountain–blew sky high, due to an apparent gas leak. A young woman died. The owner disappeared. His gold-digging wife wants the insurance money, and his daughter wants to know what happened to her father. Charlie can’t resist this kind of investigation…As she sifts through the clues, Charlie finds that the residents of this small lakeside town in northern New Mexico seem to know more than they’re willing to say–including the sheriff. The more Charlie learns, the more mysterious the missing David Simmons becomes. Could David have intentionally double-crossed his family, or is there a more sinister reason for his disappearance?
10.5. Holidays Can Be Murder (2009)
It’s a New Mexico Christmas. The lights are strung, the luminarias are set along the sidewalks. A hint of snow is in the air and goodies are abundant. Charlie’s mother-in-law is coming for a visit, and the preparations are nearly done. But when murder comes to the neighborhood, Charlie’s holiday plans suddenly take a turn for the dark.
Bonus: Two New Mexico holiday recipes included!
11. Gossip Can Be Murder (2010)
Charlie is invited to a plush Santa Fe spa, a week-long spiritual/medical retreat with her friend Linda Casper. The massages and spa treatments sound great, but she doesn’t realize that there is something darker going on at the mountain resort. Meanwhile, Drake has his own set of concerns. He’s been asked to testify as an expert witness in a helicopter crash case and it’s causing him more anxiety than any feat of flying ever did. It seems that Charlie and Drake are each on their own, but their two cases overlap and they find their lives in danger, in more ways than one.
12. Stardom Can Be Murder (2011)
It’s a terrible case of mistaken identity when a gang of bank robbers think that Charlie is a famous movie star. Disappointed with their take from the bank, they decide that a hefty ransom will be their ticket to riches. But what will happen when the real star steps forward? Charlie knows that only her wits will save her from this band of desperate men. Meanwhile, in a race against the clock, Charlie’s husband Drake is working with the FBI and local authorities to get Charlie back before her captors realize their mistake.
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