Showing results by narrator "Shelby Forbes" in All Categories

When beauty salon owner Melanie Hogan joins six of her pals from beauty college for a reunion in Pinewood Village, Minnesota, one of the gang turns up dead the morning after the party. With Melanie’s shears as the murder weapon, she’s the prime suspect in the investigation. As Melanie launches an investigation of her own to clear her name and to eliminate each of her friends as the murderer, she uncovers secrets of the victim that rocks her world.

Amelia was the best assassin in the business. Now that the game has changed to introduce shrinking darts, she finds an added bonus to getting rid of some of the most notorious crime bosses in the world. When she takes a job that lets her shrink down many bad people, she decides to have a little mean, yet naughty fun.

Deep in an underground facility, Karen Murphy has been working to create a matter reduction chamber. When her tests for organic matter fail, she comes up with a workaround with the hopes of one day shrinking people. When a visitor from another lab stops by, a mysterious accident releases the shrinking solution. Now, a lab full of women and one man must figure out why they are shrinking and how it happened.

Two young lovers with two different backgrounds fall in love, which leads to chaos and their untimely demise.

When Melanie Hogan is helping her best friend and hair salon business partner, Claire Davis, move into the house next door, they make a grave discovery. Literally. While storing moving boxes in Claire’s backyard on a windy autumn night, they stumble upon a secret space in the back of the shed housing three gravestones. When Melanie discovers one to be that of six-year-old Zachary Swanson, her passion for children propels her to unearth the boy’s history and find out why he was secretly tucked away.

Cookies had a normal, happy childhood until the truth about her mother comes out, sending her life spiraling out of control, leading to her untimely death.

When a body is discovered in the woods by Melanie’s Minnesota lake house, it nearly gets both her and her estranged mother, Violet, killed. Melanie retreats to the familiar and comfortable surroundings of the beauty salon she owns with her best friend, Claire, but when the details surrounding the death begin to unravel, Melanie is thrust into the middle of the investigation. When her grandmother, Rose Donnelly, is the next target, Melanie will stop at nothing to catch the killer.

Melanie Hogan is anything but your average beauty salon owner. She’s created a life for herself that’s an exact contradiction to that of her wanderlust, absentee mother who bailed on her when Melanie was four years old. She has gone beyond and above to make sure her life is stable, predictable, and…boring. Too boring. When she begins on a quest to add some spice to her life, she learns an important lesson: Be careful what you wish for because you just might get it. And she does.