THE RED FROG BEACH MYSTERY TRILOGY

I am seriously over the strawberry moon to announce that The Poison Garden (Baby I’m Blue) will be published in August of this year. The last book of The Red Frog Beach Trilogy will be the crescendo of our favorite friends of Bocas del Toro. 

DROWNING LESSONS – BOOK #1 (2019)

You are cordially invited to a destination wedding to die for… Forty guests descend upon an unsuspecting Caribbean Island for a five-day luxury jaunt. When the groom’s best man is murdered during a snorkelling trip, Lexie Milano must step up to the plate and solve the murder. The maid of honor got four nights until the wedding, a bridezilla to cater to, and a perfect crime to solve. You’ll find yourself laughing until the very end of Drowning Lessons. 

THE WIPEOUT AFFAIR – BOOK #2 (2019) 

Lexie Milano has left her heart in the Caribbean and moved permanently to the remote island six months after solving not one but two murders. When the body of a beautiful local is found dead at an isolated surf camp, the owner calls on Lexie to help clear his name in this hilarious whodunit. Between old friends, new life and loves, and the added potential of shark attacks, The Wipeout Affair will leave you laughing and guessing until the very end.

THE POISON GARDEN (BABY I’M BLUE) – BOOK #3 (2026)

So much for a peaceful life in the tropics for New York transplant, Lexie Milano. Remote Bocas del Toro has pulled out all stops for Valentine’s Day, a romantic treat for everyone but recently single Lexie. Throw in the murder of her toxicologist co-worker, and you’ve got a holiday week to remember. All roads lead to the victim’s poison garden, just one of the secrets uncovered in this comedic mystery. Surfing scientists, clandestine affairs, and decades-old grudges conceal what just might be the perfect crime. And more importantly, does she find love in the end? The Poison Garden promises wild hijinks for the final instalment of The Red Frog Beach trilogy. 

THE SILENCER – Edinburgh Festival 2012, Festival of the Offensive (2014)

Be careful who you fall in love with. Be more careful who falls in love with you. A nameless protagonist takes you on a journey through the West Village of hopeless romance, midlife crisis and paranoid psychosis, bringing a whole new twist to the boy-meets-girl, boy-descends-into-madness kind of tale. The narrator has fallen through the cracks, living among the propaganda of the manosphere. Meeting the woman of his dreams, a one-night stand turns to obsession, transforming into psychosis. Lost in a world of dating apps, misogynistic social media and technology that is beyond him, he will do anything to find the woman he lost. The Silencer explores themes of stalking, alienation, and the need we all have to connect. But at what cost?  

NEPENTHE – 

It is 1961 in Hollywood. With the release of Exodus, the filming of Anne Frank, and the TV coverage of the Eichmann trial, we are led on a journey by a German political Holocaust survivor, Esthie.  who is now the beautiful 31-year-old wife of a movie studio head. Upon discovery that a film based on Auschwitz’s Block 24 Brothel is being made, she is on a mission to stop it. For the first and only time, Esthie tells her traumatic story of her in forced prostitution time behind the brothel walls of Block 24: The truth must be said, at least once.

SO PINCH ME QUICK (2027)

A dark comedy about soul mates, a wild road trip through grief, a love letter to The Cure. 

In Progress

• GOD SAVE THE SAD GIRLS
• CLASSIC HEDY