Murder Mysteries by Vicki Shelton
Biodina d’Angelo Series
Mystery • History • Intuition • And one unforgettable sleuth.
Meet Vicki Shelton
Step into the suspenseful world of Biodina d’Angelo, a sharp-witted amateur sleuth with an intuitive edge.
Through richly detailed settings and storylines layered with secrets, history, and murder, Vicki Shelton delivers mystery novels that keep you guessing until the very end.
Whether you’re drawn to buried secrets in the misty Cascades or ancient clues hidden in the bogs of Filucy Bay, Shelton’s novels offer a perfect blend of atmospheric mystery and engaging characters.
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MURDERS AND SMUGGLING ON A CRUISE SHIP
By Vicki Shelton
Amateur sleuth Biodina d’Angelo and her husband board a cruise ship in Miami for a week’s vacation in the Caribbean.
On the pool deck, Biodina eavesdrops on a heated conversation where she hears cruise personnel discussing a problem with “the exchanges.”
She immediately assumes an illegal transaction, likely drugs.
On the second day of the cruise, she notes that her favorite waitstaff person is missing, and gets conflicting answers from the waiter as to his disappearance.
Her suspicions are confirmed when his drowned body is discovered with ligatures on his neck.
An intriguing smuggling operation from Brazil of “fancy” diamonds is uncovered, partially by the efforts Biodina takes with the local police in reporting the missing man and by the clues she uncovers.
During the week, the philandering ship captain is also murdered, with an initial determination of a heart attack, but the autopsy determines he consumed an unusual poison.
The police are drawn away from the smuggling operation when Biodina is reminded that poison by murder is more typically a woman murderer’s choice.
Cleverly, she determines whether the murderess is the wife, the current female interest, or a long-ago scorned lover.
MURDERS IN THE CASCADES
By Vicki Shelton
A long-buried crime • A town full of secrets • One woman determined to uncover the truth.
When a moment of clarity strikes an Alzheimer’s patient, he confesses to a shocking crime—murdering his business partner in the Washington Cascades forty years ago. Amateur sleuth Biodina d’Angelo can’t ignore the claim, especially when a forgotten lumberyard and a decades-old fraud scheme begin to surface in the historical record.
But as she pieces together the past, a new mystery collides with the old—this time involving the suspicious death of a beloved music producer. With no shortage of eccentric suspects and motives ranging from envy to obsession, Biodina must rely on her intuition and relentless curiosity to make sense of the tangled threads.
Murders in the Cascades is the second installment in the Biodina d’Angelo Mystery series—blending vintage crimes, modern twists, and a heroine who never stops asking questions.
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MURDER AT FILUCY BAY
By Vicki Shelton
Nestled in the misty inlets of Puget Sound, Filucy Bay is the kind of quiet place where secrets don’t stay buried for long—especially when amateur sleuth Biodina d’Angelo is around.
Biodina, a retired librarian with a nose for trouble and a heart for history, never expected her reclusive, grumpy neighbor Dickie Simmons to come knocking.
But when he unearths a skeleton with his excavator—right in the middle of his renovation project—he turns to the one person who might actually care.
What begins as an archaeological mystery quickly turns into a murder investigation when Biodina discovers the remains belong to a young Puyallup chieftain’s son, buried centuries ago… and possibly killed for a rare and sacred artifact.
As she teams up with tribal leaders, a state archaeologist, and some skeptical authorities, Biodina finds herself entangled in more than history.
Because now Dickie has vanished without a trace—and someone doesn’t want the truth uncovered.
Blending Pacific Northwest history, quirky small-town characters, and a twisty whodunit, Murder at Filucy Bay is a cozy mystery that digs deep—into the past and the human heart.