Ironstone Heritage Museum is proud to feature local award-winning author Lisa Michelle's Calaveras County Crime Series.
Book #1: "Blue Mountain"
It’s been the year from hell for Jessica Williams. Her cheating husband not only bankrupted them—he’s been indicted. Now the rat bastard has disappeared. Thank God for Nana. Jess couldn’t survive without the old woman’s wisdom and brutal honesty. But when Nana is arrested and held responsible for the largest mass murder in Calaveras County history that honesty looks very doubtful.
As the oldest inmate at the county jail, Nana also holds the honor of being the only suspected serial killer ever housed there. When Nana is granted deathbed visitation, Jess wants the truth. All of it. At least she thinks she does. But after Nana confesses to bone-chilling secrets so horrifying, Jess begins to question everyone and everything, including her own sanity. Nana could be lying, Jess thinks, but why?
Armed with jagged pieces of the ugly truth, does Jess have the courage to forgive and hunt down a sadistic monster even if it’s someone she loves? Even if it kills her?
Book #2: "Calaveras"
Deep in the backwoods of Calaveras County accidents happen. For gritty rancher and soon-to-be grandmother Kate Dunnigan, these deaths are mostly good old cowboy justice—until the day that justice hits home. Kate’s idyllic façade is destroyed when Emma Lee, her pregnant daughter, is wanted for murder. On the run and fighting to survive, Emma Lee is haunted by filthy family secrets, but Kate will stop at nothing to save her from life in prison, even if it means using herself as bait.
Book #3: "Forest Creek"
Dying alone in the dark would be the easy way out of Forest Creek. But psychologist Maureen “Mo” Yamaguchi refuses to take her secrets to the grave. With a hunger to help her patients and make the world a better place, this may be the opportunity she needs. Simply being in the wrong place at the wrong time might payoff—if she doesn’t die first. With bare and bleeding feet, Mo forces herself through the cold dark, contemplating her next move. It will take much more than a fierce intellect to survive the night at Forest Creek.
