Or edgier, traditional mystery?
Silicon Valley Murder
Pick your poison…which will it be?
Small town cozies with a dash of thriller?
The Laughing Loaf Bakery Mysteries
When she turns her husband in for selling defense secrets, Gracie Markley enters witness protection. Gracie, her professor father and her not-so-well behaved dog Biga are relocated to the tiny, quirky town of River Grove in the Northern California redwoods.
After leaving her tech job in Seattle, Gracie decides to fulfill her dream of opening her own bakery. Trying to keep her identity secret, she keeps a low profile in her new town, baking bread and turning The Laughing Loaf into a lively community gathering place.
That is, until murder shows up on her doorstep…
Or edgier, traditional mystery?
Detectives James Ruiz and Dani Grasso solve murders in Monte Verde, a wealthy town of tech CEOs and professionals in the hills of the San Francisco Bay peninsula. Ruiz grew up on the rough streets of East San Jose, and rookie detective Grasso belongs to a big, affluent Italian family, who are not at all happy with her career choice.
Together they confront crimes of passion, greed and vengeance in one of the world’s richest zip codes.
THE LAUGHING LOAF BAKERY MYSTERIES
Gracie resorts to sleuthing to save The Laughing Loaf when a gorgeous male model winds up dead on the bakery’s back step.
The murder of River Grove’s homegrown rockstar at a summer concert divides the town when the police chief arrests the wrong man.
The body of a young man is found on the highway with Gracie’s photo in his pocket. With foreign agents on her trail, can Gracie keep her identity secret?
A YouTube celebrity chef comes to River Grove to teach a sourdough class at the Laughing Loaf. When he winds up dead, Gracie must call on her estranged friend to help her find the killer.
When a software programmer is murdered, his boss is chief suspect. Then a shadowy figure haunts the man’s house. Is the man really dead? To clear her best friend’s husband, Gracie must find the killer.
SILICON VALLEY MURDER
Writing as VL Kazarian
Homicide detectives Jimmy Ruiz and Mario Flores track the killer of a 90-year-old aviation pioneer, gunned down on New Years Day in what looks like a gang hit. That night on the expressway will change four lives forever.
When tech CEO Rosalind Mabrey is killed, suspicion falls on her three company co-founders, who buried secrets in on a joyride through the Nevada desert twenty years ago. Ruiz and Grasso must investigate the tangled relationships to find the truth
—and the killer.
The murder of hated entrepreneur Derrick Winslow looks just like the home invasion murders of a nearby family five years ago. Was this a copycat crime—or a staged act of revenge? Ruiz and Grasso hunt down the clues to find the murderer out of a range of suspects, while battling their own demons.