The Kate Jasper Mysteries
Here's a quick guide to the Kate Jasper books, 1-12.
You can click on the titles below to find out more about any particular book.
#1: ADJUSTED TO DEATH
Kate Jasper visits her chiropractor for a simple spinal adjustment, only to find herself seeking a neck-breaking murderer among the "mellow" residents of Marin County, California.
#2: THE LAST RESORT
Kate travels to a lethal
health spa to clear her
now ex-husband of suspicion
in the mud bath murder of
his new girlfriend.
#3: MURDER MOST MELLOW
When Kate hosts a human potential discussion group, she discovers that a member's personal growth can be permanently stunted... by hot tub electrocution.
#4: FAT-FREE AND FATAL
Kate and her psychic friend,
Barbara, attend a vegetarian
cooking class and learn a new
recipe... for SaladShooter
death.
#5: TEA-TOTALLY DEAD
Relations are poisoned in more ways than one when Kate and her sweetie attend a murderous family reunion, forcing Kate to find the fiend of the family.
#6: A STIFF CRITIQUE
Kate understands just how brutal
a writers' critique group can
be when a none-too-gentle
manuscript bashing is followed
by an even bloodier head
bashing.
#7: MOST LIKELY TO DIE
Is it murder or male menopause when Kate's former classmate and class prankster, Sid Semling, is electrocuted by Kate's pinball machine "Hot Flash" at their high school reunion?
#8: A CRY FOR SELF-HELP
During a wedding ritual seminar,
the guru of self-actualization
through puppetry takes a deadly
dive over the cliff while Kate's
not looking.
#9: DEATH HITS THE FAN
A prominent writer topples when her fellow writer reads one chapter too many to Kate and the rest of the audience at a lethal author's panel.
#10: MURDER ON THE ASTRAL PLANE
Kate attends a psychic soiree seeking relief from the karmic
impairment that sends her
stumbling over dead bodies,
only to discover yet another
corpse.
#11: MURDER, MY DEER
Kate realizes that roses aren't the only victims when she attends a toxic support group for gardeners whose plants have been most deer-ly abused.
#12: A SENSITIVE KIND OF MURDER
Kate wonders if male bonding must be fatal when she witnesses
the hit-and-run homicide of a
member of her sweetie's mens'
group. Talk about sensitive
issues!