Ann Kinnear Suspense Novels

Ann has built a peaceful life in an isolated cabin in the Adirondack woods, far from the people who fear or exploit her ability to sense spirits. But when Philadelphia socialite Elizabeth Firth disappears, Detective Joe Booth has few clues and nowhere else to turn.

What begins as a routine sensing-for-hire takes a chilling turn when Ann encounters Elizabeth’s spirit and realizes the missing woman was murdered. The trail leads to Elizabeth’s elegant Philadelphia townhouse—and to a husband whose wealth and privilege conceal secrets he will do anything to protect.

As Ann draws closer to the truth, the investigation follows her home, shattering the safety of her mountain refuge. To bring Elizabeth’s killer to justice, Ann must trust her extraordinary gift and face a threat that could make her the next spirit crying out to be heard.

Perfect for readers who love paranormal mysteries, atmospheric suspense, gifted heroines, and murder investigations in which the dead provide the most important clues.

Ann Kinnear thinks that her midnight visit to a shuttered Maine hotel with a haunted past is simply a favor for a friend—until she finds that more than secrets are buried there. Will Ann be able to unlock the secrets hidden within those walls, or will she succumb to an eternity trapped there herself?

After solving the Philadelphia socialite murder, Ann should be riding high. Instead, she’s depressed and considering abandoning her spirit-sensing business. To add to her problems, she has suffered a series of injuries to her hands—could these be the ghostly repercussions of the violence that ended her last case?

Ann goes to Maine to solicit help from fellow spirit senser Garrick Masser. Ann and Garrick find more trouble than they bargained for in a tale of obsession and misplaced loyalty rooted in a crumbling summer hotel, international art theft, and the historic wildfire that raged across Mount Desert Island in 1947.

Ann is indulging her love of aviation by working toward her pilot’s license at Avondale Airport—and protecting her privacy by discouraging the attentions of a filmmaker intent on documenting her spirit-sensing abilities.

Little does she know that a fiery plane crash will embroil her in a race to track down a contract on which two rivals are banking their futures. And when airshow pilot Gwen Burridge launches a smear campaign against her, Ann is even more determined to uncover the truth.

Ann travels to the crash site and learns what brought the plane down—but it’s only part of the story. Will Ann land safely, or be the latest victim of a secret someone is willing to kill to keep?

Spirit senser Ann Kinnear is back on Mount Desert Island, Maine, to take part in a documentary with her colleague and competitor, Garrick Masser. The topic is the recent death of Leo Dorn, head of the Stata Mater research lab, who fell from a cliff-side trail on his wife’s estate.

Ann has barely unpacked before Dorn’s hiking partner and fellow researcher Shelby Kim disappears, and now Ann wonders if Leo’s fall really was an accident. But when Ann finally locates Shelby, the young woman isn’t talking.

Then a warehouse on the Manset waterfront burns to the ground, and Ann realizes that whatever happened to Leo Dorn is bigger—and more dangerous—than anyone suspected. As Ann digs into the science, secrets, and rivalries behind Stata Mater’s research, she finds a killer willing to burn down anything—or anyone—that stands in the way.

Spirit senser Ann Kinnear is juggling a long-distance relationship and continuing her search for a place to call home. She thinks she has found the solution to both when she learns that her favorite Chester County, Pennsylvania, winery has a guest house for rent.

When the body of the terminally ill head of the winery is found on the grounds, Ann assumes that the torch will pass to the next generation—but the terms of the will leave a sour taste in the mouths of some family members. Does that explain the patriarch’s daughter’s clandestine trips to a grand but derelict Philadelphia home tended by a mysterious man in Victorian garb?

Then a second body is found in a watery grave, and it seems that both deaths may have been murder. Can Ann root out the evil, or will her plan to move into the winery’s guest house bear deadly fruit?

In an almost-deserted condo complex overlooking the wintry Atlantic, some secrets are stored away just as carefully as the summer deck chairs—until Ann Kinnear arrives.

Hired for what should be a straightforward speaking engagement at a writer’s conference, Ann is soon drawn into a tangle of ambitions, grudges, and dangerous bargains. An author desperate to break free of a suffocating publishing contract, a calculating editor juggling clients and agendas, and a shadowy figure slipping in and out of a thirteenth-floor unit all become part of a web Ann can’t ignore—especially when her unique ability starts picking up threads no one else can perceive.

As icy winds rattle the condo’s walkways and the off-season streets grow darker, Ann must decide whom to trust in a community where every favor comes with strings, and where the next knock at the door could bring a breakthrough—or a one-way descent.

Ann Kinnear has talked to plenty of dead people. She’s never had to impersonate a living one to do it. When her newest client asks her to board a cruise ship as his fiancée—disguise, fake ring, and all—Ann takes the job. But the closer she gets to the spirit she came aboard to find, the less certain she is that she won’t be joining him.

Pharmaceutical CEO Adam Novak’s father died of a sudden cardiac event aboard the Meridian Blue, and Adam wants the chance to say what he didn’t get to say in life. Ann’s job is to find Arthur and mediate the conversation. Simple enough—until the fiancée back on shore whom Ann is impersonating goes inexplicably silent.

While Ann’s brother Mike chases inconsistencies back in Pennsylvania, Ann is left to work out what her client isn’t telling her, and which of the strangers circling them aboard ship is not what they seem. The dead want to be heard. The living want something else entirely. And as an Atlantic storm closes in around the ship, Ann begins to suspect that her gift for speaking with the dead may not be enough to keep her among the living.