These stories appear in the short story collection, What Leads A Man To Murder.

A classic mystery in Agatha Christie style.

A story of kidnapping gone horribly wrong…or maybe miraculously right.

A tale of superstition and treasure, tempered by the death of a much-missed cat.

Prize-winning author, Joslyn Chase, delivers on three delightful stories.

Mystery novelist Cathryn Harcourt never met a mystery she couldn’t solve…in the pages of her own books.

Faced with a real-life puzzle on which hangs the happiness of two young lovers, can she find a solution before they’re forced apart?

And when the stakes rise higher than anyone imagined, can she outsmart a wily, unsuspected murderer?

Join Cathryn as she travels from Virginia to Kentucky to Brazil on the tracks of a clever killer.

Who knew a simple glass of water could hold so much? Or that it could change from half empty to half full in the course of a day?

It carried the seeds of Ruben’s destruction, turned his world upside down, and drowned him in despair.

Might it also offer the key to his salvation?

If curiosity killed the cat, it sat behind the wheel of a white Chrysler LeBaron the day Mrs. Friskers died.

A young woman, raised on a diet of superstition, struggles to chop away the apron strings and

prove her worth to a persnickety, white-gloved mama. The loss of her mouse-killing cat makes the battle twice as hard. And twice as lonely.

A humorous and heart-warming story of a young woman learning to stand on her own.