THE ROAD TO LAVENDER
book one of the mountain mystery series
By D.P. Benjamin
2020 SPECIAL CONSIDERATION AWARD for Cover Design from the New Mexico Book Association 2019 3rd PLACE, Mystery Genre, Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers, Colorado Gold Writing Contest
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A smuggled prize, bloodthirsty treasure hunters, a hungry mountain lion, and a budding romance–it looks like a busy summer for Anne Scriptor. Will the spunky young student of archaeology survive her journey on THE ROAD TO LAVENDER?
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A Lavender Wedding
BOOK two OF THE MOUNTAIN MYSTERY SERIES
BY D.P. BENJAMIN
PUBLICATION DATE: APRIL 15, 2021
Anne Scriptor forms a working partnership with Detective Trinidad Sands by joining his investigative team. Six months later, the handsome detective proposes marriage and Anne says yes. The working couple is already buy investigating the unsolved murder of Esau Koller, a prolific author and Colorado celebrity. But the wedding isn’t going to plan itself, so it will require a juggling act to solve a murder in time for A LAVENDER WEDDING.
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Lavender GRAND
BOOk tHREE of the mountain mystery series
by d.p. benjamin
In this prequel, set years before Trinidad Sands meets his precocious wife, the footloose bachelor lands his first case. Working a seasonal job at Grand Lake Lodge, he befriends a local character, investigates a kidnapping, and risks the wrath of a vengeful arsonist.
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THE WAR NICKel
BOOK FOUR OF THE MOUNTAIN MYSTERY SERIES
by d.p. benjamin
The brutal murder of a local hermit entangles him with a deadly assassin who seeks to rekindle a sinister World War II Nazi scheme involving the key to eternal youth and a hidden stockpile of counterfeit nickels.
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RARE EARTH
BOOk FIVE of the mountain mystery series
by d.p. benjamin
The husband and wife detective team of Trinidad and Anne Sands decide to take a vacation from sleuthing. Trinidad has received a generous offer to purchase his lavender farm and he focuses his energy of making a life-altering real estate decision. Anne gets a chance to apply her scientific skills when a trio of visiting Chinese archaeologists come to Western Colorado. But their separate projects soon overlap in a marathon of espionage, murder, and betrayal.
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Photo by D.P. Benjamin
WALKING HORSE RANCH
BOOk SIX of the mountain mystery series
by d.p. benjamin
A Hollywood movie crew comes to the Wild Western Slope of Colorado hell-bent on completing a feature film in record time. Things are looking up when they locate an ideal setting and the production schedule is rolling along until the star’s stand-in is murdered. There are fifty-five eyewitnesses to the crime, not to mention camera footage from seven angles. But it will take the husband and wife team of Detectives Trinidad and Anne Sands to unravel the mystery of Walking Horse Ranch.
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Lavender farewell
book seven of the mountain mystery series
by d.p. benjamin
It’s time my husband and wife detectives, TRINIDAD and ANNE SANDS, to leave Lavender. The catalyst for their departure is an unsolved murder perpetrated by a notorious villain who was earlier presumed dead.
