The story moves from San Francisco, to San Juan, and back to central California. Dr. Quint puts it all on the line to uncover the truth about the death of a young attorney. Read VIALS, the first book in the long Jill Quint series.

Chocolate Diamonds is a murder mystery that is set in Europe. Dr. Jill Quint, vintner from California and consulting forensic medical examiner joins her three friends from Wisconsin in Antwerp, Belgium to enjoy their annual girlfriends’ vacation. Jo’s ancestry resides in this country and she is looking forward to exploring her heritage. They all plan to enjoy the museums of Belgium and the Netherlands, as well as the food and especially the beer of the region. A chance medical emergency pulls Jill and her friends into a homicide investigation assisting the Belgian Police and Interpol with uncovering something worth killing for in the diamond industry. Who was the woman in the restaurant that Jill and Marie performed CPR on, and why did she die in the hospital after they had her stabilized- it was just an unusual nut allergy? Angela, the photographer of the group of friends begins to capture faces of men who want to kill them or kidnap them and along the way she meets Nick who helps them stay alive. The friends do what they can to give Nick and Angela’s budding relationship a chance. Jo learns to navigate European financial and tax records with the help of an accountant from Interpol. She is usually oblivious to the strangers around her, but on this vacation paying attention become a requirement as they have to run from several kidnap attempts. Marie has been exploring people’s backgrounds worldwide in her day job in the US. Always a multi-tasker, she is a real sleuth at ferreting out the hidden facts and identities for anyone, all while standing in line to buy a ticket at a museum. Nathan, Jill’s partner, doesn’t want to miss out on the excitement. He joins the ladies in Brussels and plans to visit some of his wine clients while he is in that region. As a world class wine label artist, he has clients that he designs bottle labels for in most parts of the world. He soon finds opportunities to use his Hapkido skills disarming Jo’s assailant, joining Nick in providing some security for the women. Diamonds are mined in many parts of the world, but the miners are not always treated fairly. Antwerp is the acknowledged diamond industry hub of the world. Many chocoholics believe that the best chocolate artists in the world reside in Belgium. Jill and her friends stumble upon the intersection of chocolate and diamonds in this murder mystery This is book two of the Jill Quint forensic pathologist series, a follow up to “Vials”, the first book in this murder mystery series. A third book in the series is in progress and features a murdered skier in a resort town in Colorado, and its title is “A Breck Death”.

Dr. Jill Quint, private forensic pathologist is back in book #3 of the series. By day she is a wine grower in the central valley of California. The man in her life, Nathan is a world renowned wine label artist. After leaving her job as a medical examiner for the State of California, she has been hired as a consultant to look into the cause of death on the recently dead. Her reputation in the past year has been growing as her cases have become more dangerous to her and her team. This time she has been called in to consult in the death of a skier at a resort in Colorado. The skier’s partner has been told preliminarily that he died from a heart attack from the rescue squad that finds him on a ski trail. Since the skier is a tri-athlete with no history of heart problems, he finds it hard to believe. Both Jill and Medical Examiner arrive at a different cause of death - homicide. Subsequently, Jill and her team are hired to look into the skier’s death. The skier was the CEO of a Biotech company. Had the CEO discovered some problems with the company’s products? Can Jill and her team avoid becoming victims of winter hazards when the killer sights a new target of Jill and her team? Set in the high elevation of a Colorado ski resort, enjoy finding out just how deadly the winter can be!

Dr. Jill Quint, Forensic Pathologist, is enjoying a vacation with her girlfriends who live in Green Bay, Wisconsin. For the past several days they have visited all of Jill’s favorite spots to eat, play, and shop. Jill’s visit was scheduled to coincide with what they have long called ‘the most entertaining golf match of the year’. It is a charity fund raiser, so entry fees go to a good cause. This golf match has such unique golf contests as, hitting a fake wooden cow in the middle of the fairway - all in good fun. Starting on the fourteenth hole and about eight holes into their golf game as they are waiting to tee off on the third hole, a gunshot rings out. Jill urges her team to drop to the ground. After hearing urgent conversation from the second green and no further gunshots, Jill and the team head for the second green. There they find Dr. Doug Easley with a bullet hole between his eyebrows. Follow Jill and her team as they decipher where the shot rang out from and why.

Around noon on an average summer day in Sacramento, an ambulance rolls up to the State Capitol, intent on responding to an emergency call from inside the building. Rushing in, they arrive at the Department of Revenue Supervisor's Office to find the man denying the need for emergency care. Paramedics convince him to allow them to check out his heart rhythm suspecting problems with his pacemaker. They are soon reading his tracing and declare that they need to convert his heart to a normal rhythm. They pull out the defibrillator paddles to try and aid his heart with a single jolt of electric current, but it doesn't work and minutes later he lies dead in his office. Just another heart attack on the job .… or is it? Book 5 in the Jill Quint, MD, Forensic Pathologist series, finds Dr. Quint called in by the family to perform an autopsy on Manuel Valencia,the recently dead man. He was loved by his large extended family, admired by co-workers, and he had just purchased new hiking boots for an upcoming vigorous hike in Yosemite. Both the local coroner and Jill agree, it's a homicide and they begin to look at the large list of people who hate to pay taxes. They have the fake paramedics on camera, how hard could it be to find the killers?

Jill Quint, MD, forensic pathologist and vintner, arrives in Dallas for a grape grower’s conference when she runs into an old friend. The friend is shaken as she has just seen her co-presenter die while delivering a presentation. Public speaking was bad enough but what could kill a young woman so quickly? The victim’s husband, Adam, hires Jill to help him find answers to his wife’s death. He’s convinced that Stacy’s connection to the Sinaloa Drug Cartel is the cause of her death. Stacy was related to a high ranking member of the cartel family but had changed her identity to escape the cartel life, eventually becoming a nurse. Jill discovers the poison and Adam ends her services, stating he’ll let the police department finish the case. Detective Castillo has never taken the husband off his number one suspect list and hires Jill as a consultant. Her investigative skills notwithstanding, Castillo’s convinced if he hires Jill, she’ll become a target for the real killer, and she does….

A close friend of the mystery solving foursome is killed when he's shoved off Cardiff Castle's clock tower minutes before their planned meeting in a pub. The mystery follows them through Wales and on to Edinburgh as the team tries to solve the mystery of their friend's background. Along the way, a few more murderous attempts are made, this time focused on Jill. Police Scotland is pulled into the misadventures of the four women.

The atmosphere of New Orleans suggests evil spirits have a role in a man's death.. Jill Quint, MD gets a call from Alicia Hudson, whom she did her pathology residency with. Now a pathologist for the City of New Orleans, Alicia has a man on her autopsy table whom the family says died from evil spirits. How can Jill resist her call to find out what really killed the man? Nathan has his own business meeting and joins Jill in trying to stay one step ahead of a man with murderous intentions. Read Crescent City Murder, book 8 in the Jill Quint, MD, Forensic Pathologist series.

Who knows the most about how to get away with murder?Dr. Jill Quint is a forensic pathologist by training. Jill offers second opinions on the cause of death, has her PI license, and can be hired to investigate a suspicious death. Jill, Nathan, and Angela head to New Zealand and Australia on a trip that is part work and part vacation. Jill is speaking at a forensic conference, while her friends are meeting with wineries to conduct business.Her friends assist her with cases by bringing their own skills like accounting, interviewing, and social media research. Nathan is her partner and is a world-renowned wine label designer.New Zealand has a reputation as a very safe country, so why are people dying in the cities she visited? They aren't dying by gunshot or stabbing, rather these are unusual 'accidents'. In time, it becomes clear that these deaths are staged as 'how to get away with murder' events.As Jill and her friends transition to Australia, will the killer follow them? Is Jill the final target?Read Forensic Murder for a crime story set Down Under.

California Wildfires have a long history of being started by humans . . . An arsonist and dry brush are a combustible combination. Yes, the power of crackling fire and heat are exciting, but what if the arsonist could do more? Like ridding the dating pool of men that don’t belong there anymore.An insurance adjuster who routinely investigates fires for insurance claims notices that lone men are found dead once a wildfire is extinguished. Is this coincidence or something more devious afoot? He calls a county medical examiner’s office that is examining the latest victim. He wants to make sure that someone notices this pattern as the deaths occur in different State regions.Jill’s former colleagues contend with a large bus fatality and don’t have time to dig deeper into his comments. Instead, they hire Jill Quint as a forensic pathologist and a PI. She finds evidence to support the idea that some of these cases are homicide.Are they looking for an arsonist or a murderer, or are they one and the same? The wildfires continue across the state as the dry weather and endless brush present the usual opportunities for an arsonist. Jill’s winery is surrounded by dry brush. Should she worry about the arsonist coming after her?Read Embers of Murder, the 12th book in the Jill Quint series.