Mac 'N' Ivy Mysteries Books
Seniors Ivy Malone and Mac MacPherson have warily circled the idea of marriage for some time while Ivy was on the run and hiding from the murderous Braxton clan. Now the Braxtons are out of the way, and Mac and Ivy have made the Big Decision. They're getting married!The plans are made, the date is set. A church wedding, of course, complete with heirloom wedding gown and Ivy's old friend, Magnolia, walking her down the aisle, and a buffalo barbecue afterward. Except there are the problems of a dead body, a big pile of money, and a killer who is cheerfully willing to bring their plans to a deadly halt.Join Ivy and Mac for another lighthearted adventure through danger and mayhem in this first book in the new Mac 'n' Ivy Mysteries series.
What comes after a wedding? A honeymoon, of course. The beginning of a happily-ever-after future in which seniors Ivy and Mac leisurely cruise the country in their motorhome until they find the perfect place to settle down and live. No more dead bodies. No more murders.Instead, here they are on a detour to an old dinosaur park, and Ivy is up to her possum-gray hair in ghost goats, deteriorating dinosaurs, and … wouldn't you know it? … another dead body.Ivy and Mac vow Non-involvement this time. No searching for clues, no getting involved with killers. But it's a vow difficult to maintain when they seem to be at the top of the list of murder suspects. There's a gun with Mac's initials scratched on it, a hint of dastardly doings in the past, an exploding Porsche, and a covert climb over a chain link fence into the dinosaurs' domain.Is Ivy in danger from the dinosaurs? Or is it more a case of, Watch out dinosaurs - here comes Ivy!
Ivy and Mac are in their motorhome, headed for their long-delayed honeymoon. Baja! Beaches! Romance, sunshine, and shrimp tacos! But a panicky phone call from good friend Magnolia, who is, as usual, looking into her complicated family genealogy, changes their plans.Magnolia has found a dead body. She's lost a dead body. Ivy and Mac decide making a side-trip to a desert ghost town won't take long.Wrong!Because In addition to a vanished dead body, there's an old cowboy trying to revive a faded western-movie career, blackmail, a two-million-dollar insurance policy, an ex-model writing the Great American Novel, her artist boyfriend, and a hungry roadrunner named Harry. Plus a killer who is determined to put Ivy and Mac into the category of the missing dead.Join Ivy and Mac for another lighthearted adventure through mayhem and mystery in this third book in the Mac 'n' Ivy Mysteries series.
"Charlie's Secrets" is a finalist in the Cozy Mystery category of the 2025 Daphne du Maurier awards for Mystery/Suspense books. Mac, with Ivy's assistance, usually writes quirky articles about everything from a frog race to a garlic festival for a travel magazine, but now they've been hired to write a woman's memoirs for a rather nice sum. Except these memoirs turn out to be a high-powered expose of the woman's three prominent and well-known husbands,. and each of those ex's is desperate to keep his past misdeeds from showing up in print. What will they do to stop the memoirs? Bribe, threaten ... or murder? And now Ivy and Mac know The Wife's dangerous secrets too.