Karen Musser Nortman

• Dec-2012
• / Mystery
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Bats and Bones is a BRAG Medallion honoree. Frannie and Larry Shoemaker are retirees who enjoy weekend camping with their friends in state parks in this new cozy mystery series. They anticipate the usual hiking, campfires, good food, and interesting ...

• Apr-2013
• / Mystery
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Frannie and Larry Shoemaker love taking their grandchildren, Sabet and Joe, camping with them. But at Bluffs State Park, Frannie finds herself worrying more than usual about their safety, and when another young girl disappears from the campground in ...

• Sep-2013
• / Mystery
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A biking and camping trip to southeastern Minnesota turns into double trouble for Frannie Shoemaker and her friends as she deals with a canoeing mishap and a couple of bodies. Strange happenings in the campground, the nearby nature learning center, a...

• Jul-2014
• / Cozy Mystery
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A trip down memory lane is fine if you don’t stumble on a body. Frannie Shoemaker and her friends camp at Old Dam Trail State Park near one of Donna Nowak’s childhood homes. They take in the county fair, reminisce at a Fifties-Sixties dance, and ...

• Sep-2014
• / Mystery
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Punk and Patty Jo Norton retire and decide to take up camping. But the used trailer they purchase from a shady dealer and their first weekend of camping on Halloween bring them more adventure than they bargained for. A short, light mystery....

• Nov-2014
• / Science Fiction
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An IndieBRAG Medallion honoree. A 1937 vintage camper trailer half hidden in weeds catches Lynne McBriar’s eye when she is visiting an elderly friend Ben. Ben eagerly sells it to her and she just as eagerly embarks on a restoration. But after each ...

• Nov-2015
• / General Fiction
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A holiday novella. The Shoemakers and Ferraros plan to spend Christmas in Texas with Larry and Jane Ann’s brother and then take a camping trip through the Southwest. But those plans are stopped cold when they hit a rogue ice storm in Missouri and t...

• Feb-2016
• / Cozy Mystery
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Join retiree Frannie Shoemaker and her friends as they camp at a lake haunted by a ghost and a more recent mystery, geocache for hidden surprises and find more than they bargained for, and spend Christmas snowbound in a state park alone-or maybe...

• Apr-2016
• / Science Fiction
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How many of us have wished at some time or other we could go back in time and change an action or a decision or just take back something that was said? But it is what it is. There is no rewind, reboot, delete key or any other trick to change the past...

• Apr-2017
• / Amateur Sleuth
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A timely collection of speeches by David McCullough, the most honored historian in the United States -- winner of two Pulitzer Prizes, two National Book Awards, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, among many others -- that reminds us of fundamenta...

• Dec-2017
• / Science Fiction
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Lynne McBriar swore her vintage trailer would stay in a museum where it would be safe from further time travel. But when a museum in Texas wants to borrow it, she determines that she must deliver it herself. Her husband Kurt convinces her to take it ...

• May-2018
• / Amateur Sleuth
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Frannie Shoemaker and her friends go camping to get away from the real world. So they are surprised and dismayed to find their wilderness campground the production site of a new 'reality' show--Celebrity Campout. Reality intrudes on their week in the...

• Aug-2018
• / Amateur Sleuth
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Maxine Berra and Lillian Garrett, sisters in their seventies, travel together to visit friends and relatives in Max's 1950 red Studebaker with her Irish Setter, Rosie. Does that mean they are amicable companions? Not at all. But when, during a family...

• Dec-2018
• / Cozy Mystery
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Seventy-something sisters, Max and Lil, visit western Pennsylvania, partly to see Lil's son Terry and his family, and partly to enjoy to colorful fall foliage. The sisters volunteer to help staff a fund-raiser haunted house. The house has amazing spe...

• Dec-2019
• / General Fiction
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Lil's daughter, Georgiann, has taken a new job as director of a visitor's bureau and the first task is to organize the Lights and Luminaries Festival held in December. It's the season of good will and Max and Lil come to visit, expecting a warm and p...

• Jun-2021
• / Cozy Mystery
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Over two hundred years ago, famed explorer Meriwether Lewis died on the Natchez Trace under mysterious circumstances. Historians still argue whether it was suicide or murder. That shouldn't affect a weekend campout in present day for Frannie Shoemake...

• Aug-2021
• / Science Fiction
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What if you bought a vintage camper and it turned out to be a time portal? Lynne McBriar does just that. She buys an antique camper, unused for years, in an effort to connect with her 14-year-old daughter, Dinah. Lynne tries to unlock the secret to t...

• Oct-2023
• / Police Procedural
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Max and Lil join their sister Carole for a weekend of glamping - glamorous camping. A series of mysterious 'mishaps' raises tension among the diverse group of women. Is someone really planning to harm one of them or just trying to create a climate of...