Courting Trouble
1925 Mystery ~ 2025 Summer Writing Challenge
These three novelettes create a tie-in series to M.A. Lee’s Sailing Into Mystery stories and Into Death novels, which feature the artist Isabella Newcombe Tarrant. Nedda Courtland enters 1925 America with these stories as she is Courting Trouble.
“Spanish Moss” is now available.
A Death, a Will, and a Way
“Poison” is one of the last words Nedda Courtland’s employer says to her.
Private secretary to a wealthy financier, Nedda has maintained a very British poise as she traveled the world. The New Orleans of 1925 brings it own unique flavor to her experiences. Yet nothing prepares her for Hyatt Ingram’s claim of murder in the hours before his death.
With no evidence as proof, she can only fulfill Mr. Ingram’s last wishes. Holding his absent son’s voting proxy and a new will, Nedda expects the murderer to emerge in the chaos she will create as executrix.
She never expects another murder.
LINKS
Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FF2PTG9W
Books2Read https://books2read.com/u/bPM11l
For a sneak peak with the opening chapter, head over to the MA Lee blog: https://maleebooks.blogspot.com/2025/07/spanish-moss-opening-and-links.html
Coming Second is “Texas Sun”. Published July 23.
Texas Sun ~ Means. Motive. Opportunity
The grime of a working oil field draws together people at odds with the summer heat and with each other.
In the heady flush of a new romance, Nedda tries to ignore the blazing tensions, yet troubling shadows have gathered.
Then Death makes his entrance, and the grim pressures erupt.
Available Now at these links:
Zon https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FH5VHQ4V
B2R https://books2read.com/u/4XM6k6
Read the opening chapter on the MALblog on August 1.
Finishing is “Gulf Storm”. Preorder now for the August 23 Release Date 
Gulf Storm ~ Bribe. Conspire. Die.
A hurricane threatens to disrupt the wedding festivities of Nedda and Hank.
With the approaching storm are a whirl of human crimes, and an accusation of a past misdeed rages from the shadows.
Will the hurricane’s landfall shred Nedda’s dreams, or will Death wreak its lethal destruction?
Zon https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FK5TB4YW
B2R https://books2read.com/u/mZM2O2
Opening Chapter available 8/20 on the MALblog https://maleebooks.blogspot.com/2025/08/gulf-storm-opening-and-links.html
The trio collection will release September 23.
