Marlys Millhiser

West Coast literary agent Charlie Greene is on the case when an unexplained murder baffles the local cops-and brings out Charlie's blossoming psychic gifts   Raising a fast-maturing teenage daughter, keeping up with the mortgage payments, and trying to launch a successful Hollywood career would be difficult for anyone. But Charlie Greene has an additional, more unusual challenge to deal with: her emerging abilities as a clairvoyant. And when Gloria...

Recovering from last year's Las Vegas trip-from-hell, Long Beach literary agent Charlie Greene is looking forward to spending this year's vacation at home. No manuscript reading, no needy clients, no killer commute for a whole week, just some good, old-fashioned rest and relaxation. But, before Charlie's peaceful vacation even starts, her daughter's rambunctious cat, Tuxedo, causes her to stumble across the body of neighbor Jeremy Fielder, murdered...

"Charlie Greene is back. Still a Hollywood literary agent and still a beleaguered single mom, she's also still at war with her own mother, Edwina, who just happens to be an already volatile personality made even more so by the onset of her "change of life.""--BOOK JACKET. "But are Edwina's hormonal fluctuations enough to make her homicidal? Exasperated but loyal, Charlie's sure the answer is no - yet out on a remote stretch of Utah desert, where the...

Literary agent and amateur sleuth Charlie Greene accompanies her mother to her great-great-aunt's funeral under great duress-after all, Charlie herself is adopted, and this part of her extended family has never made her feel that welcome. Plus, it's in Myrtle, Iowa, about as far from Charlie's life as a high-powered California literary agent as one can get. But, she agrees to go. How bad could it be? In one of Marlys Millhiser's quirky, offbeat mysteries,...