Ann Miller Shaver
Author of the California Coast Mystery Series
Ann Miller Shaver
About the Author
Ann Miller Shaver has lived in Palm Desert, Carmel, and Newport Beach, California ... and Lake Tahoe, Nevada, where she developed a love for snow skiing and boating. She has attended Sierra Nevada College, Monterey Peninsula College, and College of the Desert studying art and art history. She has been a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution, and Colonial Dames. Ann has written five novels: Honolulu Mystery, Malibu Mystery, Monterey Mystery, Newport Mystery, Tahoe Mystery ... and two short stories: Carmel Dreaming, and Ticket to Nowhere. Her hobbies include quilting and watercolor, but her favorite activity is spending time with her grandchildren attending their plays and sporting events.
Hidden in Del Monte Forest
Monterey Mystery
Paul and Stacy Morgan, along with two young daughters, move to their new home in Pebble Beach, after Paul accepts a job at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey teaching robotics and economics. Stacy, a natural in Russian, takes employment at the Defense Language Institute, also in Monterey, and teaches ballet to high school girls on Saturday mornings in Carmel. Add Paul's student Jeff Marlow and Stacy's ballet student Poppy Blake to the mix, along with Russian spies, ex-Navy Seals, a determined detective Marsh, a demanding admiral, an angry money-hungry stepmother, and her deranged brother. The once quiet communities of Pebble Beach and Carmel become full of spies, drones, kidnapping, art theft and murder.
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Friend or Foe
Newport Mystery
Myrna Alston is deep into retirement, living the quiet life on Balboa Island in southern California, tending to her garden, playing Scrabble with a neighbor, until she finds a body in the canal. She meets Mark Boxer, a Newport Beach police detective, and her life is thrown into the world of boat theft and sex trafficking. Mark, trying to solve a murder, stumbles into the seedy side of Newport Beach. With the help of Summer Alvarez, another detective out of Santa Ana, and Andy Wilson, a whiz on the computer, he tackles the cases before him as the bodies stack up. Detective Mark Boxer soon realizes not everyone in a position of authority is on his side.
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The Mask Came Off
Malibu Mystery
Jackson Payne, a seasoned detective looking for the Saturday Night Killer, gets swept into the world of academia, art forgery, a well-known spiritual retreat, tabloid trash, and an overwhelming fire. In the process he falls in love with a famous actress, with devastating consequences. Malibu, A-Way-Of-Life, for some, but shattering for others. With evidence burned and destroyed Payne continues his search for the killer.
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