- Location(s): Nepal
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
Overworked computer programmer Zelda Richardson is teetering on the edge of burnout. Inspired by a girlfriend’s trip around the world, she leaves her life in Seattle, Washington, buys a backpack and flies to Kathmandu as a volunteer English teacher...
- Location(s): Paris
- Genre(s): Cosy Mystery, Crime
- Era(s): Contemporary
Lana Hansen’s future is looking bright. She has money in her bank account, a babysitter for her cat, and even a boyfriend. Regrettably she won’t get to celebrate Valentine’s Day with her new beau, Chad. Instead, she will be...
- Location(s): Netherlands
- Genre(s): Cosy Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
Wanderlust Tours guide Lana Hansen and her mother, Gillian, haven’t seen eye to eye in over a decade, ever since Lana was wrongly fired from her job as an investigative reporter. So when Lana’s boss invites Gillian to join...
- Location(s): Budapest, Hungary
- Genre(s): Cosy Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
Travel Can Be Murder Cozy Mystery Series Book 1 Recent divorcee Lana Hansen needs a break. Her luck has run sour for going on a decade, ever since she got fired from her favorite job as an investigative reporter....
- Location(s): Amsterdam
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary/WW2
When a homosexual Dutch art dealer hides the stock from his gallery – rather than turn it over to his Nazi blackmailer – he pays with his life, leaving a treasure trove of modern masterpieces buried somewhere in Amsterdam,...
Rituals of the Dead: An Artifact Mystery
- Location(s): Netherlands, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction, Mystery, Thriller
- Era(s): 1962, 2017
Art, religion, and anthropology collide in Alderson’s latest art mystery thriller, Rituals of the Dead, Book three of the Adventures of Zelda Richardson series. Art history student Zelda Richardson is working at the Tropenmuseum in Amsterdam on an exhibition...
Marked for Revenge: An Art Heist Thriller
- Location(s): Netherlands, Italy, Luxembourg, Türkiye (Turkey)
- Genre(s): Mystery, Thriller
- Era(s): present day
An adrenaline-fueled adventure set in the Netherlands, Croatia, Italy, Luxembourg, and Turkey about stolen art, the mafia, and a father’s vengeance. When researcher Zelda Richardson begins working at a local museum, she doesn’t expect to get entangled with an...
Notes of a Naive Traveler: Nepal and Thailand
- Location(s): Nepal, Thailand
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Modern
The ride back to Kathmandu was comfortable and relaxing. There were more overturned trucks (the gas-powered ones seem to tip the most, I’m surprised there weren’t more explosions), goats being herded across the highway by ancient women, children playing...