Bones of Contention (book #1)
The Top End of Australia is a strange place to choose to end one’s life, but that is what Dinah Pelerin’s wealthy American uncle has done. He has summoned his entire family to a remote, comfortless lodge where he intends to rewrite his will and commit suicide with the aid of a rogue Australian physician. Dinah sees this time with her uncle as a last chance to learn the truth about her father, who died while running drugs when she was a child. But when she arrives, she discovers that the truth has darker ramifications. When a man none of them claims to know is murdered on a nearby island, Dinah must sort out her family’s complicated history while struggling to understand Aboriginal song lines and solve not one, but two bizarre murders.
Bet Your Bones (book #2)
A wedding beside a volcano sounds risky to Dinah Pelerin, the reluctant maid of honor. The bride has bet her heart on Mr. Right. The groom has bet his fortune on a real estate deal. But the sacred bones of a Hawaiian king are buried on the property he plans to develop and Pele, the local fire goddess, is angry. When a member of the wedding is shoved onto a molten lava flow, all bets are off.
BoneReapers (book #3)
Hewn out of a frozen mountain in the Norwegian Arctic, the Doomsday Seed Vault was designed to safeguard the earth’s agricultural heritage from every conceivable disaster. But no fortress, however remote, can protect against human corruption and those scheming to gain control of the world’s food supply. Dinah had no idea when she left sunny Hawaii with a donation of banana seeds that she would become embroiled in the politics of genetic engineering—let alone murder. In December, polar temperatures rarely climb above zero and bodies don’t decompose in the permafrost. The dead have to be shipped south for burial and soon there are two murder victims headed south. If Dinah doesn’t stop the murderer, she may be next.
Her Boyfriend’s Bones (book #4)
In 1973, on the beautiful Greek island of Samos, movie star Marilita Stephan murdered her boyfriend, his mother, and a powerful colonel in the military junta, a crime for which she was executed. Forty years later, Dinah Pelerin expects only sunshine and romance when she arrives to spend the summer with her Norwegian boyfriend, Thor, before joining a nearby archaeological dig. But does the mystery surrounding Marilita’s death interest Thor a little too much? When an Iraqi immigrant to Samos is killed in front of the village taverna, Dinah suspects Thor hasn’t told her the truth about being on sabbatical from his policeman’s job. Norwegian intelligence has traced former CIA weaponry to the island and Thor has been assigned to investigate. Before he can reveal what he’s discovered, his car plunges off a cliff and he disappears. Dinah fears he’s been betrayed by the local police and either kidnapped or killed. Unable to trust anyone but her unruly and unpredictable niece who shows up out of the blue, Dinah sets out to find Thor and prevent another Greek tragedy.
Where the Bones are Buried (book #5)
Dinah Pelerin has finally put her life in order. Living in Berlin with her Norwegian boyfriend Thor, she has landed a job teaching Native American cultures at the university. She’s never felt happier. And then her Seminole mother Swan shows up with a crazy scheme to blackmail a German tax dodger and dredges up a secret Dinah has kept hidden from the IRS and from straight-arrow Thor, an ex-cop who’s been promoted to hush-hush international duties.
Germans harbor a century-long fascination with the American Wild West and American Indians. Some enthusiasts dress up as Indians and adopt Indian names. Der Indianer Club has invited Swan to a powwow where she plans to meet her blackmail victim. Dinah tries to head her off, but arrives too late. A man has been killed and scalped and Swan quickly becomes the prime suspect. Torn between love for her mother and dismay at her constant lies, Dinah sets out to find the killer, hoping the killer doesn’t share her DNA. But Swan isn’t the only liar. Everyone is lying about something—including Thor and especially Dinah. Ghosts of Germany’s terrible history haunt Berlin and Dinah must exorcise a hateful ghost from her own past.