Crime and mystery

Miss Phoebe Astin of The Economic Undertaker has applied her mortician skills to many faces, but a beautiful young debutante, Miss Daisy Dorchester, needed little work, or so Phoebe thought. When the debutante’s spirit appears to her, insisting she was murdered and demanding Phoebe do something about it, Phoebe agrees. She has, after all, helped many of her ghostly clients before they move on to the next world.
It soon comes to light that Daisy's death is connected to the priest from St Patrick's Parish and a young gentleman suitor with an engagement ring in his pocket; Daisy had boasted to the debutantes of a secret love.
Phoebe finds time is running out as the debutante will soon be laid to rest, but her brothers Julius and Ambrose, Detective Harland Stone, journalist friend Miss Lilly Lewis, and her dear friend Kate who took a portrait of the debutante the day before her death, are on the case.
Unfortunately, Daisy appears to have more enemies than friends and is fast making Phoebe one with her demands, requiring Julius to step in and reveal a side of himself he had to date kept hidden.
But justice must be served, and for the Astin family, being dead is no excuse for letting crime go unpunished!

For twelve-year-old Adam Murphy and Nate Delaney, Debrov’s Carnival World was the best day out with its ghost train and dodgem cars, but not everyone felt the same. The loud and unsightly carnival run by Rayco Dobrev and his fortune-telling wife, Gerta, was unpopular with new residents in the expanding estate who wanted it gone at any cost. That price was a riot and a life lost.
Eighteen years later, the carnival is deserted, an eyesore for residents – the riots and death but a memory. Except for one girl, Laura Armstrong, who is all grown up and wants Nate to find out what really happened to her father—the neighbourhood group leader—all those years ago.
Adam and Nate are about to be frightened by the ghost train all over again.

Mortician Phoebe Astin and her brothers, Julius and Ambrose, of The Economic Undertaker loved the chilly winter weather; it was much more befitting to wearing dark suits and burying the dearly departed. However, not all that were buried remained that way, notably two young ladies who appear in spirit form to Phoebe, claiming to have died from heartbreak after being left at the altar, their fortunes stolen. Determined to help them get justice, Phoebe provided a tip to her beau, Detective Stone, to catch the cad. But suddenly, the weather was not all that was proving to be chilly when, for the first time, Detective Stone dismissed Phoebe’s clue; Julius was ambivalent to her hurt; and an angry Ambrose was most out of sorts. Regardless, there was a rogue to be stopped, and being dead was no excuse for not seeking justice.

Meet the Paytons: antique dealers, time travellers, mystery solvers. All in a day's work.

Gideon Payton—eldest twin by sixteen minutes—inherited a unique ensorcellment: he can slip back into the past. Perfect for an antique dealer... especially one who only recently sailed out of London, 1886, and into the strange new world of the 21st century after a shipwreck tore his family apart. The Paytons left their grief and 150 years behind – or so they thought.

Timeless Treasures, their charming antique shop in modern day Australia, is known for finding relics nobody else can and when a desperate client asks them to locate a missing heirloom, Gideon, his twin, Theo, and talented, sassy genealogist Holly Hunter start with its last owner – the fifth and final canonical victim of Jack the Ripper. Time-hopping just turned lethal. But never let it be said that the Paytons turned down a challenge.

Ideal for fans of Diana Gabaldon, Kelley Armstrong, Shawn Inmon, and Jennae Vale.

Timeless Treasures, the Payton family’s prestige antique shop is known for validations and finding rare relics. But when a disaster-memorabilia collector requests authentication of a jewellery piece from the Titanic, the Payton brothers are divided. The seller swears it belonged to his great-great-aunt Emma, a maid on the Titanic who survived, but a descendant of Emma’s employer accuses her of stealing the piece as the ship went down—and demands it back.

Gideon Payton, eldest twin and inheritor of a time travel ensorcellment, can slip himself—and anyone he chooses—back into the past. A handy charm for an antique dealer. His brothers want to find proof; Gideon wants none of the icy fate awaiting Titanic’s maiden voyage.

But will they talk him into joining Emma aboard RMS Titanic in 1912? Time travel has a cost, and this particular crossing might be too higher a price to pay.

Ideal for fans of Diana Gabaldon, Kelley Armstrong, Shawn Inmon, and Jennae Vale.