Mercy Watts Mysteries Books
USA Today Bestselling author A.W. Hartoin brings you twisty mysteries and quirky characters in her first crime series. Her stories are filled with humor, friendship, family and more than a little murder. Mercy Watts' P.I. father ropes her into another investigation, this time to find the truth behind a young woman's attack. The case takes her from a dive bar to sorority row to the gutter, and unless she solves it fast, the case will be her last.
USA Today Bestselling author A.W. Hartoin brings you twisty mysteries and quirky characters in her first crime series. Her stories are filled with humor, friendship, family and more than a little murder. A bad dog and a missing man. Mercy Watts is up to her double D’s in trouble. She agrees to take on a case for an old rival to avoid doing paperwork for her PI father, but her plan doesn’t include a poodle with problems. If she dumps the case, she’ll pay a terrible price. She’ll have to type.
USA Today Bestselling author A.W. Hartoin brings you twisty mysteries and quirky characters in her first crime series. Her stories are filled with humor, friendship, family and more than a little murder. What do a dead cop, a murdered bride, and a sizzling summer have in common? Mercy Watts, of course. Nurse and dutiful daughter, Mercy Watts is on vacation from her parents. The great detective and his loving wife are on a cruise and, for the first time in years, Mercy thinks she's off the hook. She won’t be doing any investigating for the family firm. No tailing suspects. No background checks. Nothing but her own stuff for three whole weeks. She’s thrilled.But when Tommy’s old partner has a fatal heart attack out of nowhere, Dad has one of his famous feelings and orders Mercy to look into it. She tries not to get sucked in. She really does. But she is her father's daughter. Soon Gavin's death leads to a more grisly one, the death of a bride on her wedding day. Can the two be connected? Was Gavin murdered? Now Mercy can't stop. You do for family. That's all there is to it.
USA Today Bestselling author A.W. Hartoin brings you twisty mysteries and quirky characters in her first crime series. Her stories are filled with humor, friendship, family and more than a little murder. A favor that can’t be refused, questionable couples, and plenty of poison. It’s about to get shady in a very sunny place. Vacations can be murder, especially when you're Mercy Watts. The young nurse agrees to get away from it all to help a friend cope with a devastating loss and it’s not the worst idea. She could use a break from her godmothers’ lawsuit and a certain situation with the mafia. But, on a whim, Mercy’s mother decides that instead of a cruise their trip is going to be to Roatan, Honduras, a place known for scuba diving and lawlessness. A sunny place for shady people the locals call it and they’re not wrong. Mercy's on the island less than twenty-four hours when she discovers that she hasn't gotten away from anything. Her troubles hitched a ride and increased tenfold. The crux of her mafia problem is right there on the island. Lucia Carrow is related to the Fibonacci crime family and somebody has it in for her. They just keep missing their target. But is Lucia supposed to die or is her husband the intended victim? The Fibonaccis expect Mercy to protect Lucia and figure out who’s behind the attempts, but the deeper she dives, the more dangerous her vacation becomes. Mercy must stop a murder or she'll be next on the hit list.
USA Today Bestselling author A.W. Hartoin brings you twisty mysteries and quirky characters in her first crime series. Her stories are filled with humor, friendship, family and more than a little murder. A crabby nun and a runaway girl. Mercy should’ve stayed in bed. Instead, she bows to her aunt’s guilt trip and is hot on the trail of Charley Horton, a girl the police can’t find. With the help of her nerd posse, she’ll find Charley, but somebody isn’t going to be too happy about it.
USA Today Bestselling author A.W. Hartoin brings you twisty mysteries and quirky characters in her first crime series. Her stories are filled with humor, friendship, family and more than a little murder. Would you commit a crime to save a child? Mercy Watts is off to Colorado for a ski trip with her boyfriend and his parents. She thinks her biggest problem will be pretending to be a normal girlfriend. A girlfriend that doesn't know how to pick locks and absolutely never gets her face on the national news. But a desperate friend asks a favor that cannot be refused. A child in St. Louis is in desperate need of a drug that can only be found in Colorado. The problem? It’s illegal in Missouri. The math works for Mercy and she figures she can fit a little smuggling in between trips up the lift and dips in the hot tub. Simple, right? Not quite. Before she has a chance to do much of anything, a brutal crime is committed and Mercy becomes a suspect. The cops are all over her and now she's saddled with a pint-sized partner, a stalker, and a ticking clock. All she has to do is solve a crime in order to commit a crime. A child's life hangs in the balance. No pressure.
USA Today Bestselling author A.W. Hartoin brings you twisty mysteries and quirky characters in her first crime series. Her stories are filled with humor, friendship, family and more than a little murder. Mercy Watts doesn’t believe in ghosts. She might be the only one. When Mercy’s best friend, Ellen, shows up in the middle of the night, shaken and afraid. Mercy starts digging for a truth that might not even exist. Is it a mental illness or has the Missouri drought revealed something that could’ve remained hidden forever?
USA Today Bestselling author A.W. Hartoin brings you twisty mysteries and quirky characters in her first crime series. Her stories are filled with humor, friendship, family and more than a little murder. Nothing’s easy in The Big Easy. Mercy Watts is barely back in St. Louis before her hometown suffers the worst crime in a century, a mass murder at the Tulio Italian restaurant. This tragedy has nothing to do with Mercy and she’s determined to keep it that way. No news. No gossip. No evidence. Mercy doesn’t want to know. But there are some things she can’t avoid, her family and her friends. Her plan seems to be working. The murderer, Kent Blankenship, is caught, but then Officer Joey Ameche shows up. He has a marker and he’s calling it in, much to Mercy’s dismay. His sister, Donatella’s husband and in-laws were killed at Tulio. Donatella and her children avoided the massacre in a way that the cops find suspicious. Mercy has plenty of suspicions, too. How did Donatella’s kids end up in the hospital just at the right time. Does she have a connection to the murderer? Would a mother infect her children with a deadly disease? The Tulio murders lead Mercy to her smallest criminal yet, a tiny bacteria with huge potential for murder. She traces that nasty bugger to New Orleans, her mother’s hometown, where the crimes keep adding up and the lies are thicker than Nana’s gumbo.
USA Today Bestselling author A.W. Hartoin brings you twisty mysteries and quirky characters in her first crime series. Her stories are filled with humor, friendship, family and more than a little murder. Playing dead isn't enough to keep Mercy Watts alive. Since killing a man in New Orleans, Mercy's kept her head down. With diet, exercise, and work, she thinks she can keep wolves and memories at bay. She's wrong. The Costilla gang wants revenge and Mercy will pay with her life if they can get to her. To keep Mercy out of harm’s way, her father, Tommy Watts, sends her to an isolated castle with an ominous past and owned by a pair of innkeepers with no past at all. Tommy's solution is simple. He'll take care of the Costillas while Mercy's tucked away out of sight in the countryside. It should’ve been a few idyllic days, but the trip is a bachelorette party with her cousins. Those women have issues, a lot of duct tape, and little affection for their famous cousin. Making matters worse, the castle is hosting an elite baseball camp where the competition is fierce and the players aren’t what they seem. When a guest turns up dead, it’s just the beginning for Mercy. The local police aren’t up to the task and she’s called to pinch hit. Soon there’s a second death and a malevolent mortician with an unusual attraction to Mercy gives the situation a chilling new element. Will she be able to get the job done before she ends up on a slab?
USA Today Bestselling author A.W. Hartoin brings you twisty mysteries and quirky characters in her first crime series. Her stories are filled with humor, friendship, family and more than a little murder. Mercy Watts travels to Paris, but there’s darkness in the City of Light. The Fibonacci family saved Mercy’s life at Cairngorms Castle and now she owes them a favor. Calpurnia Fibonacci makes it clear that it’s time to make good. When you’re dealing with a powerful mafia family, refusing isn’t an option, but the case isn’t going to be easy. Mercy’s job is to find a woman in Paris, one of the largest cities in the world. Angela Riley was married to the Fibonacci’s accountant, a man who knows where all the bodies are buried, but she disappeared six years ago and was presumed murdered by a man she met in a bar. Her husband and family moved on until Angela’s sister goes on vacation in Paris and gets a glimpse of her murdered sister on the fashionable Rue Cler. The Fibonnaccis want to know exactly why a woman from their inner circle would choose to disappear and Mercy’s well aware that Angela’s life depends on the answer. To make matters worse, Chuck and Aaron tag along and they have agendas of their own. With the mafia and the shadowy Klinefeld Group involved, finding the wife of Riley will be much more dangerous than Mercy ever expected.
USA Today Bestselling author A.W. Hartoin brings you twisty mysteries and quirky characters in her first crime series. Her stories are filled with humor, friendship, family and more than a little murder. Sin never dies. Mercy Watts is trying to recover from a tumble through a rocky river, but crime just won’t let her be. A retired librarian takes a life and Mercy takes her case under duress, of course. Soon she’ll be drawn in by this unusual criminal and she’ll have a choice to make with painful consequences.
USA Today Bestselling author A.W. Hartoin brings you twisty mysteries and quirky characters in her first crime series. Her stories are filled with humor, friendship, family and more than a little murder. Good girls go to heaven. Bad girls go to Sturgis. That’s what they say at the famous motorcycle rally. Is Mercy Watts a bad girl? Mercy doesn’t think so, but she’s going to Sturgis and things are about to go bad in a big way. Mercy’s grandad, Ace Watts, has decided to tick off one of his bucket list dreams, attending the famous Sturgis Motorcycle rally in South Dakota. It’s also a chance to have a reunion with his buddies from Vietnam and to bond with his son. Predictably, Tommy gets a call from the FBI and can’t go. To save her mother from wearing jeans and hanging with geezers, Mercy takes one for the team while escaping some problems of her own. But new problems await her at the rally. After some odd interactions at Sturgis bar, one of Grandad’s friends turns up dead and Mercy is expected to investigate. Despite her best efforts, she’s drawn into her grandad’s war with a string of deaths and a secret that the vets are intent on keeping no matter what. Mercy’s about to find out that a lie spoken fifty years ago can be used by a present day evil, and it’s not only stalking Sturgis but the Watts clan itself.
USA Today Bestselling author A.W. Hartoin brings you twisty mysteries and quirky characters in her first crime series. Her stories are filled with humor, friendship, family and more than a little murder. Coming home never felt so bad. Mercy Watts and her grandad, Ace, survived the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally and are racing home ahead of a stalker whose plans for the Watts clan remain unknown. But they’re too slow and what Mercy finds at home spins her in a new and darker direction. Her mother has been attacked and figuring out what happened to Carolina will take Mercy back out to her least favorite place on Earth, Hunt Hospital for the Criminally Insane. Soon she’s sucking up to a serial killer and going toe-to-toe with a rogue rapist. Mercy wants to hand this case off to her father, Tommy Watts, but the great detective is missing in action, just when his family needs him most. So it’s up to Mercy and her nerd crew and they’re going to have to power through, battling the cops, the FBI, and a killer who has connections and no scruples.
USA Today Bestselling author A.W. Hartoin brings you twisty mysteries and quirky characters in her first crime series. Her stories are filled with humor, friendship, family and more than a little murder. Love is in the air and it stinks. Mercy Watts thinks things are about to get back to normal. She’s back to work at the Columbia Clinic and her mother is recovering from her stroke. But when a patient goes rogue and lands Mercy smack dab in the middle of a lawsuit, she’s forced to make a deal to save the Columbia Clinic from financial ruin. It doesn’t seem so bad. All Mercy has to do is find out who’s threatening the daughter of a judge with his eye on a higher court, but the next thing Mercy knows she’s sunk into a world of infidelity and painful passions. Ordinary people are doing unthinkable things and Mercy doesn’t know where to turn. Her boyfriend, Chuck, is practically MIA. Her father is out to lunch and Uncle Morty is downright incomprehensible. Add in a new stalker, plenty of jealousy, and a shooting, Mercy is out of her depth and the water is rising.
USA Today Bestselling author A.W. Hartoin brings you twisty mysteries and quirky characters in her first crime series. Her stories are filled with humor, friendship, family and more than a little murder. Time heals all wounds…unless it doesn’t. In 1965, a young woman in love and a veil was kidnapped and found murdered in the small Missouri town of St. Sebastian, a ghost-ridden hamlet of dubious reputation. A priest took the fall, literally. But the FBI has now discovered a clue among the bodies found in a mass grave in Kansas and it’s time to take another look at a crime nobody wanted to investigate in the first place. A couple of junior FBI agents are sure they’re onto something, but their bosses aren’t interested in investigating Sister Maggie’s death. Neither is Mercy Watts. She just wants a vacation, not another problem, certainly not the cold case from hell. Greece is calling. A beach and drinks with little umbrellas are just what Mercy needs, but her family needs something else. Her beloved godmothers were close friends with Sister Maggie and they’ve asked for answers to the questions that have haunted them for over fifty years. Unfortunately, Mercy’s Great Aunt Miriam wants to forget everything from that time and demands that her niece forget it, too. Mercy has always known that you do for family, but which family is now the question. Can Mercy bring to light the secrets so long buried without hurting those she loves? Will the ghosts of St. Sebastian be on her side? There’s a lot to hide in the Missouri countryside and survival isn’t guaranteed.
USA Today Bestselling author A.W. Hartoin brings you twisty mysteries and quirky characters in her first crime series. Her stories are filled with humor, friendship, family and more than a little murder. Take one kidnapping. Add a haunted hamlet. Mix in a secret that’s lasted forty years and you’ve got a recipe for trouble. Reluctant detective Mercy Watts’ life is changing and she’s ready for it with a new apartment, a new career, and new clues to an old family mystery. She has no desire to go back to haunted St. Sebastian anytime soon, but a man in Germany has other plans. After an audacious attack, Mercy finds herself a victim and when answers aren’t forthcoming, she joins forces with the suspect’s family to find out why the unthinkable happened. So it’s back to St. Sebastian and the town is not at all happy to see the detective that put them on the map in a bad way. It’s going to be a rough ride with old crimes bringing new pain, but with Aaron feeding her till she’s fit to burst, and Fats Licata armed to the teeth, at least she’ll be well fed and safe…or will she?
USA Today Bestselling author A.W. Hartoin brings you twisty mysteries and quirky characters in her first crime series. Her stories are filled with humor, friendship, family and more than a little murder. All Mercy wants for Christmas is answers and she’ll go all the way to Germany to get them. The Watts clan has a plan. Mercy should rest and take it easy after the attack that left her battered and bruised. After all, she solved her own kidnapping and now it’s time to enjoy the holidays. She’s onboard, just barely. Knowing why Anton Thooft attacked her is good, knowing who blackmailed him into it would be even better, but she can wait, or so she thinks. Just as Mercy settles in, her father springs a plan of his own on her. She should help the FBI. Why not? It’s for a good cause. Mercy’s had enough of his good causes and she gets her own plan. She heads to Germany to put the final puzzle piece in the picture of her kidnapping and she’s going it alone, for once. But fate and her Grandma J have other ideas and soon it’s magical Christmas markets, high school angst, and family secrets, some are even her own. Mercy’s going to learn so much she never wanted to know and just in time for Christmas.
USA Today Bestselling author A.W. Hartoin brings you twisty mysteries and quirky characters in her first crime series. Her stories are filled with humor, friendship, family and more than a little murder. An isolated hotel. A blizzard. Guests that can’t stay on their feet. Hotel Hell is about to live up to its name. Seven couples travel high into the Swiss mountains for gourmet food and world-class skiing unaware that a freak change in the weather is about to unleash old secrets and ignite smoldering anger. As an illness spreads through the guests, Mercy Watts’ nursing skills are put to the test. The symptoms are similar but not the same. Something isn’t right. Mercy can tell, but she can’t diagnose. She has no equipment and no way to reach any. When a healthy guest is attacked and nearly killed, Mercy knows it can’t be random, but it has to be. No one has connections to the victim, or do they? Is anyone who they seem to be? There’s no time to spare and no one to turn to. The vacation Mercy didn’t want to take is going to take more out of her than she ever expected.
USA Today Bestselling author A.W. Hartoin brings you twisty mysteries and quirky characters in her first crime series. Her stories are filled with humor, friendship, family and more than a little murder. Deep in the rolling hills of Missouri, a long-hidden secret is about to come to the surface. Mercy’s on the edge of getting her life under control. She’s engaged, back in her chosen profession, and moving into a deluxe apartment. There are some hassles, but hassles are good compared to her father, Tommy Watts, showing up with the news she’s been dreading since she was sixteen. The bodies of her missing friends have finally been discovered and Tommy orders Mercy not to investigate. That’s a first and will become one of many. For once, Mercy wants to comply with her father’s demands, but fate and family won’t let her. Soon Mercy’s problems start piling up. She’ll be discovering secrets kept from her family and secrets kept from her fiancé. Throw in a rogue Bled family member, a baby shower and a crazy grandad and Mercy’s got about as much as she can take. But she has to have the answers to her life’s biggest questions so she’ll dig into her own background, finding out things she’d rather not know with the help of a very pregnant Fats Licata and her trusty sidekick chef supreme Aaron. They’re always there when she needs them, and she’s definitely going to need them.
Can a murder house become a home sweet home? Fats Licata has a dream and a deadline. She wants to bring her baby home to a historic Tudor and no other house will do. Unfortunately, it just happens to belong to murderer Brian Shill and he won’t sell. Fats doesn’t see problems. She sees solutions. All she needs is proof that Shill killed his mother to get the property. Easy peasy. When Mercy takes the case, she knows it’s a long shot. Mary Shill died of natural causes before she had time to write her disease of a son out of her will, making him a millionaire. No one thinks Brian Shill is that lucky, but proof wasn’t easy to come by. What Mercy discovers is that her cold case is also a complicated one. She finds hidden rooms and long-buried pain and with the help of an old enemy, she gets the clue to crack open all the Shill secrets and a sinister plot that preys on the vulnerable. Will Mercy be able to save a new friend or will she be next on the hit list?