New copies of The Emma Haines Kayak Mystery Series are no longer being sold by the author. However, you can buy used copies on Amazon from third-party sellers and check out all four books through the Columbus Metropolitan Library.
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Several new books (second through fourth), are still available for sale at Weiland's Market, 3600 Indianola Avenue, Columbus, OH 43214.
Nighthawks on the New River
ISBN: 13: 978-1546334750
Book One in the Series
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EMMA HAINES is a former insurance fraud investigator with an addiction—kayaking.
On a July weekend, Emma and her friend Charles Wellington drive from their hometown of Clintonville, Ohio, to Stonefalls, West Virginia, for a relaxing weekend of camping and kayaking on the New River.
But while on the water, they meet a suspicious kayaker who calls himself Mr. Pearl.
Events take a quick turn when Pearl pulls out a gun.
Peacocks on Paint Creek
ISBN-13: 978-1546334606
Book Two in the Series
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WHILE FORMER insurance fraud investigator Emma Haines and her friend Charles Wellington kayak on Paint Creek near Copperas Mountain, they witness a shooting.
Emma stays in Chillicothe, Ohio, to crack the case and calls her beau, Stratton Reeves, to come and keep her company.
Back in Emma's hometown of Clintonville, her office manager, Merek Polanski, and her friend Detective Joey Reed help her with the investigation that leads down a path of family secrets, danger, and another shooting that shakes Emma to her core.
Pressures mount as people from the past return for love and revenge.
Robins on The Red River
ISBN-13: 978-1546334859
Book Three in the Series
EMMA HAINES is a former insurance fraud investigator living in Clintonville, Ohio. Her beau, Stratton Reeves, is a retired award-winning journalist who owns a small newspaper in Stonefalls, West Virginia. Both have created enemies throughout their careers.
On an April weekend vacation in the Red River Gorge of Kentucky, Emma and Stratton kayak down the Red River not knowing that a vengeful convict from the past stalks them while nature is about to unleash its own dangerous surprise.
Meanwhile, their friends and business colleagues, Charles Wellington, Merek Polanski, and Detective Joey Reed discover that others are not who they appear to be. With help from Merek’s research, Joey cracks the case of his career, which stops Charles’s mother from making the mistake of her life.
This book has as many twists, turns, rapids, and eddies as a crooked raging river. Brace yourself and Paddle! Paddle! Paddle!
Osprey on O'Shaughnessy Reservoir
ISBN-13: 978-1090193223
Book Four in the Series
EMMA HAINES is a former insurance fraud investigator who loves to kayak. On an early July morning, she takes her friend Lieutenant Joey Reed to O’Shaughnessy Reservoir for his first kayaking trip. But their relaxing kayaking lesson takes a turn for the worse when Joey decides to paddle into open water and Emma blames herself for the consequences.
Her investigation of the incident points to the most popular divorce attorney in town and his mistress, who happens to be Joey’s former girlfriend. Emma later takes a stand that could ruin her company and is reminded by her beau, Stratton Reeves, and his secretary, Rhonda, that a loose criminal may still be stalking her. Meanwhile, her friends Merek Polanski and Charles Wellington III have surprises in store for everyone, and Charles’s mother, Mary, receives an unexpected response from the current man in her life.
From the first paddle stroke, a serene morning kayak trip flows into loss, lies, deceit, revenge, and, ultimately—forgiveness.
Paddling Toward H.I.T.
ASIN: B00F7ZC8GM
Story One
What event made Emma quit her job as an insurance fraud investigator and start her own consulting firm, H.I.T. (Haines Insurance Training)? This short Kindle "Paddle Stroke" explains it all.