Ellen Hart

An anthology of mystery stories set in Minnesota and written by Minnesota authors....

In the small town of Castle Rock, a high school senior named Sam went missing in 1999. Everyone thought he ran away, though the town rumor mill has always claimed the father killed him. In the present day, within a week of his 20th high school reunion, Sam’s remains are found....

Someone is out to get Jane Lawless and her family. But Jane is intimately familiar with danger, and she's never been one to shrink from a fight....

The first of the dead is wealthy Belle Dumont, who vanished from her home in the Minnesota woods only hours before she was to reveal startling news to her three grown children....

Minneapolis restaurateur Jane Lawless is at crossroads. Unsure of what to do next, she takes her good friend A. J. Nolan up on his standing offer: To take her on as a private investigator....

Jane reluctantly attends the wedding of Broadway star Octavia Thorn to a reclusive 83-year-old director. When the bodies start to drop, Jane thinks it might not be love that brought these two together....

It doesn’t take Jane, a wedding caterer, long to figure out that someone has spiked the food at the party, most likely with hallucinogenic mushrooms....

When Cordelia Thorn ventures to Summer Green, Wisconsin, for a reunion with some old college friends, she finds trouble in paradise....

Jane Lawless has worked hard to make her Minneapolis restaurant a success, and she's finally reaping the financial rewards....

In the second charming Jane Lawless mystery, the winter solstice nears and Jane, a Minneapolis restaurateur, is invited to spend the week at Fothergill Inn, a Victorian house-turned B&B....

Their secrets, involving the mysterious death of a young woman, have been buried since the summer they all came home from Vietnam....

Everyone thinks Luther and Dominic are happily married, that is, until Luther is convicted of his husband's murder....

The shock that Minneapolis restaurateur Jane Lawless is in for when Chester Garrity, her ex-husband, returns to a city that he swore he'd never see again is nothing compared to Chester's own....

In award-winning author Ellen Hart's next riveting Jane Lawless mystery, Jane and Cordelia discover a body buried in the wall of a historic theater....

In the next riveting, insightful Jane Lawless mystery from award-winning Ellen Hart, Jane searches for the truth behind the death of Kira Adler's mother, which has haunted Kira for many years....

When the bodies start to drop, Jane Lawless realizes it might not be love that caused a young diva and a reclusive 83-year-old former movie director to tie the knot....

Sweet Poison, the latest in Lambda and Minnesota Book Award-winning author Ellen Hart’s absorbing Jane Lawless series, make for an intense mystery of ambition and obsession....

In Fever in the Dark, Fiona and Annie return home from their one-year anniversary trip to discover that their poignant proposal video has been posted on YouTube and has garnered hundreds of thousands of hits....

Aging theater actor Torald Werness' last curtain call is as a corpse. Murdered after his last performance in his last theatrical production, Minneapolis restaurateur-sleuth Jane Lawless finds his body onstage....

DeAndre Moore came to Minneapolis from St. Louis with a purpose, but things aren't going as he planned....