SURVIVAL CAN BE DEADLY (A Discount Detective Mystery #1)

Sleuthing Among Survivalists. Spittle Trivia.

Broke single mom Cameron Chandler has two pre-teens and a live-in, judgmental mother. Desperate for a job, she’s excited to get hired as an investigator at Penny-wise Investigations, a detective agency conveniently located in a suburban shopping mall.

Cameron’s first assignment as a private investigator is to locate a runaway girl. The trail leads to a heavily guarded survivalist camp on a remote island in northern Puget Sound. Armed with a Swiss Army Knife and her on-the-job training, she infiltrates the compound by signing up for a workshop retreat on how to survive a catastrophic event.

Things get tense when this suburban sleuth stumbles across incriminating secrets. She makes a run for it but cannot connect with her trivia-loving backup colleague Yuri Webster, leaving her alone in an unfamiliar island forest pursued by angry, armed men.

Survival Can Be Deadly is Book 1 in the Discount Detective Mystery series, in which a single mom reinvents herself and ends up working as a PI with quirky colleagues, a mysterious boss with a secret past, in an agency whose motto is “Vigilance You Can Afford.”