


Books in series

#1
Death by Sugar
2010
From author Helen Goltz comes a cozy mystery series featuring sassy Jesse Clarke, her handsome boyfriend Dominic, business partner Ed, best friend Melanie, and beloved dog, Atlas. Crime has never been this fun.
For a private investigator, Jesse Clarke makes a great publicist! Jesse, with her business partner, Ed, runs a hot-shot publicity business publicizing everything from water-saving campaigns to art house films. But with a recently-attained qualification in private investigation, Jesse is trying to find her feet in her new field, as well as what her clients pay her to find.
Jesse always thought sugar was such a friendly substance, until it shows up in her two new cases for all the wrong reasons. When a black Mercedes blows up in front of the cafe where Jesse and her personal trainer, boyfriend, Dominic, are enjoying a cappuccino, the Mercedes owner, Renzo Leonardo, becomes her client. She has her work cut out trying to sort out who are Renzo’s friends and enemies.
Jesse makes an ally in the police service, Officer Jason Abingdon, who has more than a professional interest in Jesse—he brings her a new case; the suspicion that his father killed his mother over thirty years ago by weakening her immune system with a sugar-based experiment.\*
Juggling the two cases, Jesse is talking to the living and the dead to get answers.
\*(based on a true experiment)

#2
Death by Disguise
2015
The dead are walking and it is not even Halloween! Sassy private investigator Jesse Clarke knew it wasn’t going to be a normal week when two dead people are spotted alive but their death certificates say otherwise, Spiderman steals a collection of costumes made for the next Comic Con, and Batman drops in to warn her that all is not as it seems.
Supported by her own man of steel—the tall, dark and handsome Dominic; business partner Ed; police contact Officer Jason who has more than a professional interest in Jesse; and, best friend Melanie, Jesse finds herself talking to witches, superheroes and morticians to solve her two cases and looking behind the disguises for answers.
Jesse Clarke is back!

#3
Death by Reunion
2021
Jesse Clarke’s 10-year school reunion boasted a few shocks – and that didn’t include Jesse running a publicity and private investigator business. The talk of the reunion was Alex Bryson, the overweight kid who transformed himself thanks to winning a place on the TV reality program, 'Lose it!' But a week after the reunion, Alex is dead. That’s not the only reunion that’s taking up Jesse’s time. At a client's family reunion and birthday celebration, a very expensive Titanic relic goes missing – a Titanic Mourning Bear. And now T-Bear, as he is known, is showing up all over the country! With support from her boyfriend, Dominic, along with her grumpy business partner Ed, Police Officer Jason, and Jesse’s enthusiastic best friend, Melanie, Jesse is back solving mysteries while juggling publicity clients include Mona and her choir, again.
Author

Helen Goltz
Author · 24 books
Helen Goltz is a journalist, postgraduate qualified in communications and literature. She is the author of 15 fiction books and nine non-fiction books – seven co-authored with Logie-award winning journalist, Chris Adams. Helen is published by Next Chapter and Atlas Productions. Website - https://helengoltz.com/ Facebook - http://bit.ly/3rGfiw3 Twitter - https://bit.ly/3mYG6E7 Bookbub - http://bit.ly/3mZJ4be Instagram - https://bit.ly/2JuZGu3