When their son’s SAT scores are poor, a central Connecticut couple hire a tutor. The young man is wonderful at tutoring, but he's also wonderful at learning their secrets and uses what he has learned against each member of the family.

Milford car dealer Tim Blake‘s daughter Sydney vanishes into thin air after leaving for her job at a nearby hotel, where it turns out no one has ever heard of her.  He soon discovers that Syndney drinks when she parties, hangs out with a wild crowd, and might be pregnant, and finds himself in over his head with cops and criminals alike.  

Twenty-five years after her parents and brother vanished without a trace a Milford housewife agrees to appear on a reenactment show. A mysterious phone call after her story airs is just the beginning of a vicious game that someone has decided to play with her emotions.  It becomes obvious that her family was keeping secrets she never suspected.

Down and out mechanic Bob Dusza is looking to better his life by gambling at the Bridgeport jai alai fronton. His winnings are piling up and the fronton’s owner, a Greenwich millionaire, is not amused. When Dusza ends up dead, detective Pierre Appollon can’t even figure out how he died, let alone who killed him.

Providence reporter Hallie Ahern digs for facts at Connecticut blackjack tables while investigating the shooting death of her neighborhood convenience store owner.

Three-year old twin sisters Kathy and Kelly Frawley are kidnapped from their Ridgefield home and held for an $8 million ransom. Kelly is returned safely but Kathy is believed to be dead until Kelly incredibly begins imparting information about her sister's whereabouts and the identity of her ruthless abductors.

The body of a handyman is found after a newlywed couple are renovating their new Connecticut home, followed by two other deaths, perhaps having to do with the couple’s uncle who had been active in intelligence work during World War II.

A mystery involving the tragic Hartford circus fire of 1944. 

A saga about the Bradley (Skakel!) clan of Scarborough Hill (Greenwich!) in which a young man’s silence is bought by the family patriarch after he witnesses a crime committed by the man’s son.

When an esteemed professor is been found dead in his Lincoln home, Paul Tomm, the somewhat feckless new recruit on the local paper, is asked to write an obituary and ends up involved in an elaborate international intrigue.

The sleepy town of Newbury is shocked when a little girl is found brutally murdered. Another girl in town starts having disturbing nightmares and begins drawing chilling images of the crime. Her doctor teams up with an FBI agent to find out what she may have witnessed.

Political factions are at war over the proposed Foxfield Mall in Wintonbury and when a downtown grocer is found dead from strangulation in the burned out ruins of his store and then the mayor dies under suspicious circumstances, Detective Elmer “Billy” Budd has his hands full as he tries to connect the two deaths.

Big city ghost-writer Stewart “Hoagy” Hoag decides to try the quiet country life and moves to bucolic Lyme. After one of his author friends runs off with his wife's 18-year-old daughter (a la Woody Allen) Hoagy agrees to take them in and help write a tell-all book, but the author’s body is found in a pond on Hoagy’s farm.

When a wealthy woman dies in Hartford, the mystery surrounding her death and estate involves many suspects and motives.  The cause of death will determine the payout of her estate.

A woman returns to Connecticut to sell her house and her welcome-home party is disrupted when the hostess’ dog appears with a human bone.

A Boston television reporter attends a conference on Hedge Island where a famous horror writer once lived.  There is a lot of bickering between the horror writers in attendance and then one of them is found dad at the base of a local landmark called the Witch’s Tower.

Charlotte Kent is freelance writer from California moves to New Haven when her son develops medical problems. When a young medical student is murdered and his body disappears her best friend is the prime suspect. This is the second novel of the Kent series.

Charlotte takes a job editing at a magazine and after the author who is the main contributor is murdered she begins to suspects that she was the real target. This is the third and final novel of the Kent series.

Alice doesn't have much love lost for her ex-husband but when he is found dead along with his new lover and her child in the family's rustic cabin, ostensibly a case of murder-suicide, Alice doesn't believe it. She begins her own investigation and finds that all is not well in charming eastern Connecticut.

The Estates at branch Hill offers state of the art security but when a local girl is found murdered within yards of her home, Anna Peters begins to put together a complicated and tragic puzzle.

The state police are baffled by a spree of random shootings until New Preston fortune-teller Sissy Sawyer contacts them with predictions and clues that she has read in her cards.

Peter Halloran commutes each day from his home in Riverside to New York City. His ordinary life begins to unravel on the day he sees a dead man standing on the train platform. Soon Halloran is trapped in the dark secrets and lethal mysteries of his quiet home town.

Set in 1965. After an animal lab technician finds a partial corpse in an Ivy League campus research lab, police detective Carmine Delmonico discovers that this murder is only one of many-with more to come-committed by a meticulous serial rapist/killer.

A newly transported Greenwich woman falls in with a group of desperate housewives and when a young trophy wife is found swinging from a tree in her front yard, the obvious conclusion is suicide, but mystery addict Sofie sets out to do a little sleuthing.

Contains 19 short murder mysteries set in New England, some with Connecticut as the locale.

Three postulants arrive at the motherhouse of a religious order in suburban Connecticut, each with her own set of intricate reasons to become a nun. When a bell rope resembling a noose and dismembered birds appear along with strange lights and sounds and stolen amphetamines it becomes doubtful that someone is trying to ruin the convent and drive them towards madness and death.

The promiscuous owner of a downtown beauty salon in Westport is found dead with a knife wound in his back. Police Lt. Michael Phelan enlists the aid of Fairfield University psychology professor Don Sanford to unravel a tangle of conflicting clues.

The sole witness to the grisly murder of a local war hero in a small Connecticut town just after World War II joins forces with a big city detective to solve the crime.

Psychiatrist Amanda Hammond returns to coastal Grand Cove to practice in a private hospital there and becomes involved in the suspicious drowning of a local girl.

A married couple search to find the truth behind the Hartford circus fire of 1944. The wife is a survivor of the tragedy. The husband is convinced it was an act of deliberate murder.

Kate Klein, a young mother, moves to postcard-perfect Upchurch, which turns out to be full of unpleasant surprises. When a fellow mom is murdered, Kate launches her own unofficial investigation with the help of some of her friends.

FBI agents are desperately trying to solve the riddle of what is going on inside the windowless stone tomb on the edge of the Yale campus where an unknown enemy is sending students, one by one, out of the building’s front door to die.

Recounts the circus-like trial of Bobby Seale and seven other Black Panthers after the body of Alex Rackley, a suspected spy within their group, was discovered near New Haven on May 21, 1969.

Includes details of Connecticut cases including the Moxley murder and the cruise ship honeymoon disappearance of George Smith.

Includes a chapter on the Helle Craft woodchipper murder.

Includes a chapter on the Martha Moxley case.

Beth Carpenter sought guardianship of her niece, the daughter of her estranged sister who had married "Buzz" Clinton, a former male exotic dancer. Clinton was found dead and Carpenter was sentenced to life in prison for his murder.

Sherman gives an account of his legal career including the Alex Kelly, Roger Ligon and Michael Skakel trials.