Bøker av Sandra Tanner

What's amateur detective Vett Brayborn to do when her Aunt Mary's multi-millionaire boyfriend, Hollice, is strangled to death, and two weeks later, her aunt is murdered in her home, and all clues to the shocking murders lead to "six good blended adult family members?" She sucks it up, moves forward, probes into their lives, and finds a mystery pulling at all of them like gravity. Vett, fifty-three years of age, has investigated hundreds of cases and solved them all during her illustrious career. She has learned all too well that predators with fangs and claws are not only in other people's families; they are in hers too. Issa Nichols, Aunt Mary's adopted daughter, is one of them and has been jailed for the murder of Hollice. Hollice is Issa's uncle and the man who raised her and considered her one of the good ones. The police found Issa in Hollice's home, crying and cradling his dead body. But the stars are not aligning in her direction, the trail is not blazing toward her, and no body of facts points to her motive. Vett is not deterred by this. She knows these are not good reasons to eliminate Issa as a suspect so early in the investigation. And she knows five other good ones have a compelling motive for the murders. They were jealous of the favoritism Mary and Hollice showered on Issa and the monthly monetary allowance they gave her. Formidable Vett is determined to find the murderer among her blended family even if it means turning them upside down, inside out, and she be damned by them. Fire and brimstone won't stop Vett from getting at the truth and taking down a family member. Six Good Ones is a rich and epically tangled family narrative with a thirty-five-year-old secret at its root. The members of this blended family are diverse people who always seem to be embroiled in family conflicts, arguments, and emotional stress. If it were not for Vett and the four elderly aunts (sisters), who take control of these family eruptions and quite effectively extinguish them, the family would be in a perpetual state of disorder and confusion. This character-driven mystery is a chilling page-turner.Don't miss this third installment in the Vett Brayborn murder mysteries. Push the buy button for Six Good Ones by Dr. Sandra Tanner to begin your adventure.

When cut-up human remains with a smashed in skull buried for forty-nine years are discovered on Great Aunt Hannah's farm, Vett Brayborn, Great Aunt Hannah's most trusted niece and executor of her estate, works as an amateur investigator to solve the murder mystery. But there's one catch to solving the mystery: No one appears to be missing.

Winner of Literary Titan Book Ward Outstanding Creator Award for Cozy MysteriesOutstanding Creator Award for CrimeOutstanding Creator Award for Women's FictionIt's a whodunnit stay-up all-night mystery about a murdered well-to-do landowner and the shocking revelations from his fifty-year-old adulterous affair. A captivating fifty-year-old adulterous affair ensnares a man and his family into a twisted labyrinth of secrets, deceit, betrayal, murder, and vigilante justice. All these years later, the repercussions of the affair come to a head with his murder. Who did it? Sultry combines a murder mystery, adultery, crime, family bond, and paranormality into an intricate and explosive story. Well-to-do landowner, Gideon Fitzgerald, had an adulterous affair over fifty years ago. All these years later, the repercussions of the affair come to a head with his murder. His granddaughter, Dillyn Fitzgerald, chief of financial investment operations by day and amateur sleuth by night, vows to find the murderer. A tangled maze of secrets slowly reveals itself during her investigation. Dr. Sandra Tanner has fashioned a relatable and thought-provoking murder mystery.

When Brightness Tours' bus driver, Duffy Radley, fails to return to the bus after a rest stop at the Jefferson Springtop rest area on Interstate 81, the passengers are sequestered on the bus until he is found. The state police are called, and a massive hunt around the rest area ensues. He is located inside the locked maintenance room, murdered, and shot seven times in the chest. How did he get there? And why was he shot seven times; what's the significance? After the state police release the sequestered passengers, the director of bus services drives them to their drop-off place. Unlicensed private detective Vett Brayborn is one of the passengers. The next day she is contacted by the president of Brightness Tours, Jackson Stevens, and hired to find Duffy's murderer before the police do. Why the rush? What is Brightness Tours hiding? Jackson tells Vett that the quicker she can get a handle on the murder and bring it to a conclusion, the faster he can quell any negative talk that would put Brightness in an unfavorable position. Vett learns Duffy is associated with the ten-year-old Lacecap Hydrangea Murders, where an owner of a brothel, Ms. Lacecap, and her niece, Diantha, were murdered six months apart. Ms. Lacecap was stabbed to death. The homicide detectives think the incident was a robbery gone bad since her house was ransacked. The niece was found in the park; death was due to blunt force trauma to the back of her head. Duffy was married to Ms. Lacecap's daughter, Sybil, and was arrested for both murderers because of his attempts to seduce Diantha and his association with known criminals. Because his case was based on circumstantial evidence, he was acquitted of all wrongdoing. However, Ms. Lacecap's family and the community think he got away with murder. Did he? Did the family and community know something the police didn't? Did they exact revenge? Though Vett distrusts Jackson's "mitigating damage to the company" reason for the rush to find Duffy's murderer before the police, she plunges full speed ahead. She uncovers the powerful driving force behind Duffy's execution-style murder and a long-ago secret behind the Lacecap Hydrangea Murders. This secret was ripe to be told.