Casey Daniels
Don of the Dead
She sees dead people. Beautiful, smart, and chic, Pepper Martin never had to work a day in her life — until her surgeon daddy was convicted of fraud, her wealthy fiancé took a powder, and the family fortune ran bone dry.
Suddenly desperate, the inexperienced ex-rich girl was forced to take the only job she could get: as a tour guide in a cemetery. But a grave situation took a turn for the worse when a head-on collision with a headstone left her with an unwanted ability to communicate with the disgruntled deceased . . . and now Pepper has a whacked Mafia don demanding that she hunt down his killers — and threatening to haunt her until she does.
The Chick and the Dead
Ever since the former rich girl-turned-Cleveland cemetery tour guide banged her head on a headstone, she sees dead people. Worse still, she hears them—and they won’t shut up! Now it’s Didi Bowman, a poodle-skirted relic from the Great Beyond, who’s bending Pepper’s ear, complaining that her famous author sister, Merilee, has done her wrong. Trouble is, if Pepper proves it, she’ll break the hearts of millions of Merilee’s fans. And if she doesn’t, Didi’s ghost may never go away.
Pepper needs peace and quiet (and rent money), so the cash-strapped ex-heiress agrees to take a job as Merilee’s secretary and dig around the family tree. But when she unearths more than she bargained for—like an illegitimate daughter, a bunch of illicit love affairs, and a possible murder—suddenly a very poisoned pen is all set to write Pepper out of the story permanently.
Tombs of Endearment
Cemetery tour guide Pepper Martin never imagined she’d get to meet rock legend Damon Curtis, the bad boy poet who made millions of teenage girls scream. After all, he kicked the bucket years before she was born. But thanks to her newfound ability to chat up the dead, Pepper’s got a front row seat perfect for swooning over the still-sexy Damon’s latest lyrics. He’s convinced that his former bandmate Vinnie Pallucci murdered him back in ‘71, and he’s promised Pepper she won’t get any rest or peace until she helps him prove it.
But when Pepper goes behind the music, she finds Vinnie with a knife in his heart and the rest of the band members running for their lives. And if Pepper doesn’t snare the killer soon, Damon’s next hit from the great beyond might be her swan song.
Night of the Loving Dead
Pepper Martin has her hands full, what with two hot guys in her life and the ghosts that won’t let her rest, or work, or shop in peace. Now, the specter of a young woman in a lab coat wants Pepper’s help. Before she died she worked with a sexy researcher who once saved Pepper’s life and who the woman claims is now in danger. But Pepper doesn’t know there’s more to the story, including a devious doctor and a crazy, obsessive love.
Dead Man Talking
Heiress-turned-cemetery-tour-guide Pepper Martin is not happy to discover that a local reality TV show, Cemetery Survivor, will be filmed at Cleveland’s Monroe Street Cemetery-and she has to be a part of it. To make matters worse, the ghost of a wrongly convicted killer needs Pepper’s help to clear his name. But digging for the truth could put her in grave danger.
Tomb with a View
Cemeteries come alive for amateur sleuth/reluctant medium Pepper Martin.
Cleveland’s Garden View Cemetery is hosting a James A. Garfield commemoration. For tour guide and reluctant medium Pepper Martin this means that she’ll surely be hearing from the dead president himself. And when she’s assigned to help plan the event with know-it-all volunteer and Garfield fanatic Marjorie Klinker, she’ll wish Marjorie were dead…too bad someone beats Pepper to it.
A Hard Day's Fright
What happened to a teenager named Lucy one night in 1966 after a Beatles concert? She rushed the stage, kissed Paul, started home with her friends, and was never seen again-until cemetery guide and unintentional PI to the dead Pepper Martin sees her as a ghost. Lucy’s spirit can’t rest in peace until her body is found and buried. But how will Pepper track down a missing corpse after forty-five years?
Wild Wild Death
Her job has been cut, she’s low on cash, and her detective sometime-boyfriend refuses to even talk about her ability to see the dead and solve their murders. So Pepper is most certainly down for a vacation to get her spirits up. But when her cute scientist friend Dan is kidnapped, Pepper soon stumbles upon another deadly mystery that brings her to New Mexico. And she’s after a clever murderer-one whose idea of Boot Hill has nothing to do with Jimmy Choo.
Supernatural Born Killers
Pepper Martin is thrilled to get her job back, especially with a promotion. But her new position comes along with more of the dead clamoring for her attention, including the ghost of her boyfriend, Quinn’s, first partner on the police force. Jack Haggerty was obviously bound, gagged, and tossed in Lake Erie, and he says someone else is going to die if Pepper doesn’t figure out who dun it. Now, Pepper has to convince Quinn she’s the real deal both as a detective and when it comes to talking to the dead–before someone else meets their end in a watery grave.
Graveyard Shift
When Pepper Martin gets together with Cleveland’s most famous (and dead) lawman, things are bound to get interesting. Eliot Ness has a job for Pepper, and it involves a little breaking and entering. But when she gets to her destination, Pepper finds more trouble than she bargained for–along with a dead body. There’s a killer on the loose, and this one is more sinister than any adversary she’s ever gone up against. Evil specters, romantic tangles, mysterious packages, ghostly goings-on . . . welcome to Pepper Martin’s world! And when first her boss, then her mom, and even her boyfriend, Quinn, start acting strange, things go from bad to worse.
Smoke and Mirrors
New York City, 1842
Evie Barnum is in charge of her brother’s museum, a place teeming with scientific specimens and “human oddities” including a bearded woman and the lizard man. In this weird workplace–PT Barnum’s American Museum–Evie hopes to bury her secrets.
When an old friend shows up and begs for her help, she does all she can to stay away. The next time she sees him, he is dead in front of the exhibit of the Feejee Mermaid. Suspicion for the murder falls on Jeffrey, known as the Lizard Man of Borneo, but Evie knows it isn’t possible.
When Jeffrey goes missing, Evie is determined to solve the mystery of her friend’s murder, even if it brings her face to face with her past
