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Liz Hartley

    Liz Hartley has dedicated over twenty-five years to writing about jewelry and gemstones, a passion that has defined her life since childhood. Her profound expertise is recognized through professional gemological qualifications. As an avid traveler, her global journeys have enriched her work with diverse influences and perspectives. She approaches the world with a unique curiosity, favoring deep engagement over modern conveniences.

    Dangerous Visions
    The Illinois Caper
    Trust Not The Heart
    • 2023

      Trust Not The Heart

      • 384 pages
      • 14 hours of reading

      The 1994 recession has hit Cassie Franklin, a custom jeweler in Eden Beach, California, right in the heart. With sales falling and bills piling up, and with would-be real estate mogul, Carla Towne, scheming to force Cassie out of her shop, Cassie must pull out all the stops to survive. Her best chance to save her business is to find a way to get into the most prestigious art show in Eden Beach, but to do that, she will have to take risks with her work and her life. Risks that might cost her everything. It's the worst possible time for Tate Garner, handsome owner of the exciting new restaurant around the corner, to stroll into her life. Tate's silver-spoon background is everything Cassie, an outsider with a chip on her shoulder, ridicules. But as she discovers the man behind her preconceptions, she wonders if she can trust herself to take the biggest risk of all: falling in love.

      Trust Not The Heart
    • 2023

      The Illinois Caper

      • 260 pages
      • 10 hours of reading

      Middle-aged and mostly respectable, Kat Merevec and Tish O'Donnell are the least likely women in Evanston, Illinois, to become safecrackers-until the night Tish's husband dumps them both. Now, drawn together by an unlikely bit of chance and a dash of revenge, Kat and Tish are on the lam, taking an equally unlikely escape route-the Mother Road: Route 66.With the trunk of their classic 1957 Buick convertible stuffed with more than a million bucks in cash, diamonds, and unfulfilled dreams, they're racing from Chicago to the Pacific along a fabled highway potholed with switchbacks, setbacks, and detours. But to reach their California paradise, they have to stay one step ahead of Tish's ex, a private eye with his own agenda, and the murderous fence who wants them dead!

      The Illinois Caper
    • 2023

      Dangerous Visions

      An Eden Beach Crime Novel

      • 434 pages
      • 16 hours of reading

      Sometimes second sight is blind.Stacie Cappella just wants a normal life. Instead, her eerily accurate—though unpredictable—gift of Second Sight, inherited from her eccentric, fortune-telling great aunt, has given her a lifetime of embarrassment, shattered friendships, and broken hearts. She does her best to keep her inconvenient hunches to herself. But even something as simple as selling wind chimes, crystals, and tarot cards at her shop, The Bell, Book and Crystal, has opened her to charges of witchcraft.Then the belligerent wife of a powerful city council member accuses her of fraud.Eden Beach Police Detective Ben Robard, a jaded Iraq war vet and skeptic of all things metaphysical, is reluctant to take on the frivolous fraud investigation, especially since a serial killer may be targeting his city. Despite signs the no-nonsense cop is the love her aunt foretold, Stacie is determined to keep a fence around her heart—and a tight rein on her intuition.Except for the stalker.One chilly morning, a nightmare steps out of the fog, and Stacie must risk revealing her gift to convince Ben she’s in danger. It’s a move that could save more lives than hers—but could lose her the chance at love she thought she’d never have.Dangerous Visions is the first book in the Eden Beach Crime Novels series.To be notified of new releases in the series, follow Liz Hartley on Amazon

      Dangerous Visions