After finding herself in the middle of murder investigation in her last two secretarial jobs, Dot finds the only place that will hire her is her local funeral home. Why not? At least there all the clients are safe from what the town calls her murderous “Curse of Camden”. It is 1965 and if she really is cursed, what might happen to the one she loves? She and Ben put wedding planning on the back burner when one of the town’s teenage girls gets hit by a drunk boater. The closer they get to the answers, the more Dot feels the curse is coming for Ben.

Dot is back in book #4 of the Swinging Sixties Mystery Series!

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The Swinging Sixties
Mystery Series

Dot Morgan is a secretary with an eye for homicide investigations! Her groovy deductions lead her on the trail of murder in the tiny town of Camden, Texas. Join her and a cast of down-home characters as they solve mysteries and enjoy life in the 60s.

The Henry Park
Mystery Series

Gabby Wolfe loves her life living in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. She’s an artist and illustrator who finds she has an unusual talent to communicate with the dead. With a little concentration, her pencil moves on it’s own, and what it reveals she never knows until she opens her eyes. Is it a spirit? Is it the killer? Is it coming for her?

The Piney Woods
Mystery Series

The historic Tunie Hotel is back open for business as Nora Alexander discovers her connection to the town of Piney Woods, Texas. With guests from this life and the next, you just never know who will be checking into The Tunie.

The Pecan Bayou
Mystery Series

Come on down to Pecan Bayou, Texas, a wonderful refuge in the Texas Hill Country. Betsy Livingston writes the Helpful Hinter column for the local newspaper and lives the small town life filled with haunted hospitals, parades, Christmas creepers and more.

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Dying With a Secret Books to the Ceiling

This week we're heading to Winchester, Virginia to do a little historical research while we hang out with the dead detective, Oliver Tucker. Get ready for helpful spirits, child psychics, and a man in love with an angel. All good stuff in Dying With a Secret by TJ O'Connor.  THE DEAD DETECTIVE CASEFILES Dying can bring out the best in people. It can also bring out the worst of secrets. If you want to know someone’s dirty secrets, kill them. It works every time. Oliver “Tuck” Tucker, the dead detective, is back—not just for another case, but from the dead—or vice versa. It all starts when a Federal Agent is killed by a mysterious force in front of dozens of witnesses—including Angel, his historian wife, and Tuck. Among the many suspects is a dark, clandestine Federal agency responsible for advanced research and weaponry, a university doctoral candidate who won’t stay dead, and the leader of a secret southern society bent on rekindling the Civil War. With the aid of a ten-year-old psychic and the spirit of Tuck’s Civil War grandmother—Sally Elizabeth Mosby—Tuck has to stay one step ahead of the Feds who are hellbent on capturing him—alive? But through all this, what’s a two-hundred-year-old lost fortune in gold got to do with dead agents, secret death rays, and rogue policemen? DYING WITH A SECRET Trailer: Book Details: Genre: Paranormal Mystery, PI Cozy Mystery Published by: Level Best Books Publication Date: December 9, 2025 Number of Pages: 324 ISBN: 979-8898201111 (pbk) Series: The Dead Detective Casefiles, Book 4 Book Links: Amazon | Kindle | Barnes & Noble | BookShop.org | Goodreads | BookBub   Music Credits Soft Landing https://uppbeat.io/t/peter-lainson/soft-landing License code: EV45YPBKFJWCTQBF Internal Investigation https://uppbeat.io/t/benjamin-botkin/internal-investigation License code: T2MMNSQ0DSCNR0II   If you enjoyed this podcast take a minute to subscribe! Teresa Trent's blog
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