Susan Specht Oram

A wedding on an isolated island in the Pacific Northwest turns deadly, when unexpected guests with ulterior motives show up and secrets surface. A controlling bride. An angry cousin. A vengeful ex. Claire wails when her wedding cake shaped like a birch tree slides toward the floor. Ferries to...

A young woman. An organ harvesting crime ring. They’ll leave her for dead, unless she can outsmart them. Emily lost her job in a jewelry store and can’t find work in her hometown. She takes her cat and her few belongings, says goodbye to her only friend and drives west to live with her aunt...

An exhausted writer. A cottage on a dead-end road. Locals want her gone. Her ex is hunting her down. Don’t go down into the poisoned hollow... Leni is on edge. Fleeing the city and a stalking former boyfriend, she rents a cottage on an island to write a new book. But her vision of living in an...

A writer flies in from Paris and she's exhausted, but there's a party at the house where she's staying. She meets a strange man with an unusual ability. Perfect for one short listening session!...

A close group of friends. An accident that will change their lives. She must decipher the clues he left behind. Between repairing boat engines and caring for her teenage daughter, Irena Fishbone is always on the run. Still owed ten years child support by her ex-husband, she’s made her own way...

A small town. Two secret sisters with troubled pasts. Long-buried lies. Two books in a psychological suspense series collection. Secrets at the Café Karina Walker promises her dying grandmother she’ll take over the old café and read a red journal. When the little book disappears, she must...

Betrayed from within. Attacked from all sides. Can she avoid heartbreak and stop all who are intent on her destruction? Violet Cleveland’s mind is running on high alert. Used to tough challenges, the ex-covert-ops leader worries about keeping her unstable hippie mom in line while opening a...

She’s used to cleaning houses and getting down in the grime. But the dirt she just dug up could kill…. Miranda Diggs longs for absolution. But when she tries to purge bad memories and accidentally sends a motel up in flames, the regret-filled young woman seeks peace by checking into a...

A deathbed promise. A missing diary. Can she find her loved one’s message and fulfill a last wish? Karina Walker is juggling an unexpected upheaval. Rushing to her dying grandmother’s side, the grieving 24-year-old agrees to move home, take over the old café, and read a journal left behind...

Jacklyn Stone's husband dies in front of her on their anniversary. Bereft and alone, her children betray her, lock her in a psych ward, cut her off from her friends, and rapidly dismantle her life. Blood is the tie that binds, but can she cut the bonds and regain her freedom? "A fast-paced and...

Her sudden foray into crime may have her feeling guilty as sin, but this feisty mastermind refuses to let anyone else steal her plunder. Jasmine Bucker is determined to save her father. But his rare form of deadly lung disease calls for cash she doesn’t have, so the devoted daughter turns to...

A promised inheritance. An estranged father. A wealthy grandmother and a gardener with ulterior motives. On Christmas Eve, Francesca gets a call from her wealthy grandmother. Her father is dead. He promised to leave her an apartment building when he passed away and told her she’d be rich...

Her conscience won't let her rest until she rescues those she left trapped in a psych ward. Jacklyn Stone’s freedom is tainted with guilt. Rebuilding after her conniving son’s attempt to dispose of her in a secluded mental facility, the loyal sixty-something is haunted by memories of other...

Jacklyn Stone, a grieving widow, is thwarted by her greedy son. Not long ago, he admitted her to a psychiatric ward and made off with her money. In this three-book collection of the Jacklyn Stone Thrillers (Books 1-3), Jacklyn is beset by problems during a rescue mission in The Winter Storm. She...

Mystery-thriller author Susan Specht Oram shares strange but true tales in this sixth book in the Strangers on a Train series, including an unsettling phone call, a complicated story about aging parents, an ultimatum made during coming-of-age, a strange visit by firefighters, and a life-changing...

Mystery-thriller author Susan Specht Oram shares strange but true tales in this seventh book in the Strangers on a Train series, including a weird mishap at a bowling alley, a father’s strange comment, an odd experience looking for the opera, a shocking incident at a street fair, a bizarre...

Mystery-thriller author Susan Specht Oram shares strange but true tales in this eighth book in the Strangers on a Train series, including a disastrous boating incident, a bizarre business conversation, a job offer with shocking hidden expectations, a surprise visit to a sacred pool and other...

Mystery-thriller author Susan Specht Oram shares strange but true tales in this fourth book in the Strangers on a Train series, including a strange incident that happened after a break up, an unusual relationship with food, a grandmother’s bizarre comment, a shocking birth story, a weird...

Mystery-thriller author Susan Specht Oram shares strange but true tales in this first book in the Strangers on a Train series, including shocking incidents that happened in hotels, a bizarre childhood bullying story, weird work encounters, the nightmare of waking up during surgery, and a strange...

Mystery-thriller author Susan Specht Oram shares strange but true tales in this fifth book in the Strangers on a Train series, including a strange phone call past midnight, a complicated love story, a weird bubble bath incident, a shocking story about being written out of two wills, bizarre...