Lois Winston

Ever since her husband died and left her in debt equal to the gross national product of Uzbekistan, magazine crafts editor and reluctant amateur sleuth Anastasia Pollack has stumbled across one dead...

When Anastasia Pollack's husband permanently cashes in his chips at a roulette table in Vegas, her comfortable middle-class life in New Jersey craps out. She's left with two teenage sons, a mountain...

What do most authors have in common, no matter what genre they write? They love desserts. Sweets sustain them through pending deadlines and take the sting out of crushing rejection letters and nasty...

This anthology includes three Anastasia Pollack Crafting Mini-Mysteries, companions to the critically acclaimed Anastasia Pollack Crafting Mystery series.CREWEL INTENTIONSCrafts editor and reluctant...

Overdue bills and constant mother vs. mother-in-law battles at home are bad enough. But crafts editor Anastasia Pollack's stress level is maxed out when she and her fellow American Woman editors get...

In this fourth installment of the Anastasia Pollack Crafting Mystery series, Anastasia and her fellow American Woman editors are steaming mad when minutes before the opening of a consumer show, they...

Book One in the Empty Nest Mystery seriesAn homage to Dashell Hammet's Thin Man movies with a modern day spin on Nick and Nora Charles When her career is outsourced to Asia, fledgling romance author...

In this novella sequel to the award-winning Talk Gertie To Me, two years have passed since the happily-ever-after that isn't doing so well. Nori Stedworth has moved in with the love of her life,...

Polly Faith Harmony is the ultimate ecumenical love child. Born to former hippies turned millionaire entrepreneurs, she's one part Jewish, one part Catholic, one part Episcopalian, and one part...

Guilty as FramedAn Anastasia Pollack Crafting Mystery, Book 11When an elderly man shows up at the home of reluctant amateur sleuth Anastasia Pollack, she's drawn into the unsolved mystery of the...

A contemporary romance that also includes the bonus short story sequel, FINDING MR. RIGHT. Can a butt-ugly alley cat named Cupid bring together two people driven apart by secrets and lies?After...

Winner of the 2008 Winter Rose Award for Excellence in Romantic Fiction, the 2008 More Than Magic Award, and the 2008 Laurie AwardLife has delivered one sucker punch after another to Emma Wadsworth...

Anastasia Pollack's dead louse of a spouse has left her with more bills than you can shake a crochet hook at. Teaching craft classes at her mother-in-law's assisted living center seems like an easy...

Two years ago Nori Stedworth fled the conservative mentality of both her parents and Ten Commandments, Iowa for Manhattan. She loves her new life-until one devastating afternoon that culminates with...

Have you ever wished you could find more time to do the things you want to do, rather than just doing the things you have to do? Most authors juggle day jobs and family responsibilities along with...