Karen E. Olson

Las Vegas tattoo artist Brett Kavanaugh takes an appointment from a woman wanting a tattoo of her fiance's name. The client never shows--but the police do. Turns out the woman has a mysterious past--and the name on her wanted tattoo wasn't her fiance's.

The Missing Ink

While at a show starring Sin City's newest drag queens, Brett Kavanaugh, the owner of The Painted Lady--one of Vegas's hottest tattoo shops--discovers that someone is targeting these brazen beauties when two drag queens are murdered. Original.

Pretty in Ink

When her car, which was borrowed by newlyweds Sylvia Coleman and Bernie Applebaum, is returned with a dead body in the trunk and then Sylvia and Bernie go missing, tattoo artist Brett Kavanaugh and Sylvia's son Jeff go undercover as bride and groom to catch a killer who preys on impersonators. Original.

Driven to Ink

When one of her best customers is found dead surrounded by ink pots and needles, tattoo artist Brett Kavanaugh discovers that someone is impersonating her all over the city, setting her up to take the blame for murder.

A Tattoo Shop Mystery

Ink Flamingos

This tense and twisting novel of identity and suspense marks an intriguing new departure for cozy mystery writer Karen E. Olson. Nicole Jones - if that is her real name - lives off the grid. She doesn't have a licence, passport or bank account. She definitely doesn't own a computer. She hasn't left her refuge, Block Island, in fifteen years. She's hidden from the world and she likes it that way. Nicole doesn't use a computer, not because she's afraid of it, but because she's afraid of what she - a badass hacker in her past life - would do with it. When the last person Nicole wants to see suddenly reappears, using a name he knows will draw her out, Nicole realizes that her time hidden is now ending. Her past secrets tumbling into the open and her carefully-constructed new life set to fall apart, Nicole must re-hone her long-suppressed computer skills in order to escape from an island that is no longer a haven, but suddenly a prison.

Hidden

A computer hacker’s criminal past comes back to haunt her in this “edge-of-your-seat thriller” from the author of Vanished (Alison Gaylin, USA Today–bestselling author). Nicole Jones lives off the grid. She doesn’t have a driver’s license, passport, or even a bank account. She definitely doesn’t own a computer. Operating bike tours on Block Island, she hasn’t left her New England refuge in fifteen years. But it’s not that she’s afraid of the world. She’s afraid of what she could do to it if she ever plugged back in. Because Nicole Jones isn’t her real name. Still wanted by the FBI, she was once one of the best cyberthieves in the business. When the last person Nicole wants to see suddenly appears on the island, using a name he knows will draw her out, Nicole realizes that no one can hide forever—not even her. As her secret past comes to light and her carefully-constructed life starts to unravel, Nicole’s long-time haven becomes a prison, and her only chance for survival is hacking her way out.

"With a price on her head, computer hacker Tina Adler is determined to stay offline. Only one person knows how to reach her--and he's in as much danger as she is. A chance discovery leads Tina to abandon her South Carolina hideaway in search of her old flame, undercover FBI Agent Zeke Chapman. What is Zeke doing in Paris, France? And what is his connection to the disappearance of American college student Ryan Whittier? En route to Paris in search of answers, Tina realizes that someone is on her trail: someone who's getting disturbingly close. Has she been set up?"--Book jacket

Vanished

When her co-worker's bachelorette party at a local club turns into a crime scene, New Haven police reporter Annie Seymour, who has a penchant for trouble, is stunned to discover that the victim is her ex-husband and the bullet shells around his body match the gun she has in her car. Original.

An Annie Seymour Mystery

Shot Girl

Murder leaves a mark Brett Kavanaugh is a tattoo artist and owner of an elite tattoo parlor in Las Vegas. When a girl makes an appointment for a tattoo of the name of her fiancé embedded in a heart, Brett takes the job but the girl never shows. The next thing Brett knows, the police are looking for her client, and the name she wanted on the tattoo isn't her fiancé's...

When an unidentified body is found in the harbor, riddled with bee stings, New Haven Herald police reporter Annie Seymour discovers a connection between the John Doe, the police chief, and the city's struggling immigrant population that places her life in great danger. Original.

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