When Sandie witnesses her client committing a cut-and-dried murder, her head tells her to walk away. Her heart tells her she can’t. Keeping away from the mob is Sandie’s first rule of survival… until the day someone comes to call, and changes everything. It is 1920’s Chicago. What came to be known as the ‘roaring twenties’. For private investigator Sandie Shaw, ‘roaring’ was hardly the flattering kind of way she would ever describe it. Born and raised in the city, she despises everything it has become. In her view, Chicago typifies the false decadence gripping America. Still recovering from the lawlessness of the Wild West, her city and the rest of the country then entered the world war for a brief time, and when that was over, the whole nation seemed to lose all sense of reason. People went crazy. Prohibition raised its ugly head, and the mobsters and the flappers took over Chicago. Her beloved city had fallen at the mercy of those who believed they were above the law… once again. Now fifty-three, for a long time Sandie has had to be strong willed to stay in one piece. Being gutsy and taking no nonsense helps to maintain a sense of right and wrong, and to retain her very individual identity. Taking over the one-man agency when her father died, and making it a one-woman business, she knew from the off that in a male-dominated environment she would have to be tough, and witty, to succeed. And that keeping well away from anyone with a machine gun was a big part of staying alive. For eight years she has avoided anything mob-related. Then one day someone comes to call, and without Sandie even realizing what she’s getting into, suddenly she’s up to her chin in murky waters. And that changes everything… ‘Murder at the Green Mill’ is the inaugural book of the Sandie Shaw historical murder mystery series. All the RTG-brand features readers have come to love are here… high drama, heartfelt emotion, fast-paced action, witty humour, and of course, heaped spoonfuls of the unexpected. Read about The Sandie Shaw Mysteries on the new rtgreen website… and do check out everything else we create too! Enjoy!

There’s a wedding in England! But for Sandie, Daphne and Archie, getting there is to prove a little more dangerous than they imagined. Archie and Rose are tying the knot in Windsor. For Sandie and the team (plus Frank, who gets dragged along) they’re anticipating a joyous time. Until it all turns a lot scarier. Boarding the RMS Olympic for the passage to England, none of them realize a life-threatening event lies just over the horizon. Two other passengers are hiding a big secret. It might have stayed a secret if one of them hadn’t got himself murdered on the second day of the voyage. The only people aboard with any experience of tackling such things are Sandie and her team, and even off-duty they’re not prepared to ignore a crime that needs solving. The murderer doesn’t have many places to hide, and for sure not very far to run, but it isn’t going to stay that way indefinitely. Once the ship docks in Southampton the killer may easily escape, never to be seen again. There’s another complication. Until they make landfall, with an unknown murderer on the loose, every passenger and crew-member is at risk. Can Chicago’s finest private investigators unearth the secret and discover the culprit in this time-limited case? It’s not going to be easy. Check out the whole Sandie series, and our popular ‘Daisy’ series, on the new rtgreen website. And enjoy!

Babysitting is never as easy as it seems. When the ‘baby’ is in her late teens, and determined to show everyone she’s older than she really is, things can get a little out of control! Frank makes a special request to Sandie and the team, asking them to babysit a key witness, whose testimony will send a Miami crime boss down for a very long time. The FBI has kept her a secret, setting up a decoy to make sure she actually gets to Miami to give her evidence. No one else knows she’s anything other than a teenager off for a beach holiday. The problem is she lives in Chicago, and it’s rather a long way from Florida. So the deMountford and Shaw Private Investigations Agency are tasked with accompanying her on the Florida Limited night sleeper train, and keeping an eye on her in Miami until she gives evidence, after which the FBI will take over protection duties, once her identity is revealed. It seems like a simple babysitting job, until they discover the girl is determined to make the most of a few days away from her parents, and reap as much benefit from her trip as she can. None of them have any experience of controlling a rampant, precocious teenager, who seems committed to getting herself as noticed as possible! It’s not the best idea when she’s holding the key to taking down one of the most ruthless men in America. Especially when things turn a lot more dangerous, and Sandie and Daphne find themselves as much on their own as they’ve ever been. Read all about Sandie, and everything else we create, on the rtgreen website. Enjoy!

A face from the past appears at a glitzy, high-society Christmas party in Chicago. An hour later, a body is found floating in the swimming pool. Are the two things connected? Sandie and the team have been invited to a glittering festive party by a wealthy new client, who suspects her husband of being unfaithful. The object of his desires is also there, and the client thinks it a good idea for the guys to observe them at play, and see if they do anything to give themselves away. Someone else is also present. Someone who knows too much about one of the team’s very personal past life. Coming out of the blue, it is a disturbing and unexpected development. Then, as the merry-making continues, things turn even more worrying. A body is found floating in their swimming pool. Sandie is convinced the mysterious stranger and the dead body are connected. There is no evidence to suggest that, but the face from the past is a coincidence she can’t ignore, as well as a real threat to one of the team. To make life even scarier, before the police arrive on the scene the stranger has disappeared into the night. The feeling won’t go away there is a link. But with precious little in the way of hard facts, it’s going to take a huge effort to unravel the thread that ties things together. Especially when matters become an awful lot more complicated… Check out the Sandie Shaw series on the rtgreen website. And enjoy!

When tragedy strikes, there’s only one thing to do… strike back. As heartbreak descends on the deMountford and Shaw agency, Sandie realizes there’s no longer any choice. If she’s to keep those she loves safe, she has to risk her life like she’s never done before. Embarking on a road that may only have one destination, it’s not long until she discovers it really is a one-way street. A dark and dangerous road, which has to be followed to the bitter end… Read about Sandie, and everything else we create, on the rtgreen website. And enjoy!

Sandie’s eighth adventure, ‘Two Sisters, One Ghost’, is a double helping of stories in one book! With the detective agency now based in both Chicago and Windsor UK, there is plenty of opportunity for twice the danger. In Windsor, Poppy asks Rose and Archie to help an acquaintance find her missing daughter. Following an overgrown trail that leads to a well-buried secret, they realise they’ve uncovered a dark story that was never supposed to see the light of day. In Chicago, Daphne sees a ghost. Not once, but several times, each visitation getting scarier and more threatening. Believing ghosts don’t exist, Sandie tries to convince her friend that trauma brought on by the past is the reason she thinks she’s seeing someone who no longer exists. Until something happens to blow that theory right out of the window... Check out the whole Sandie series, and our popular Daisy series, on the new rtgreen website. And enjoy!

1920’s Windsor may be half a world away from Chicago, but as Sandie discovers, when it comes to murder there’s very little difference! Sandie, Daphne and Archie travel to England in this country house murder mystery. It’s supposed to be a relaxing break, courtesy of an invite from Roland, but of course once there, they become embroiled in mysterious goings-on. Invited to a weekend with Roland’s titled relatives, it isn’t long before murder rears its ugly head. Sandie’s natural instincts are to find out who is responsible, but when the fallout gets too close for comfort, she realises just how ugly things can get… This is the third book in the Sandie Shaw Mysteries series. Read about the others, and everything else we do, on the rtgreen website. Enjoy!