About Zeta
Zeta Carlton writes charming mysteries set in quirky towns where the tea is hot and the secrets are deadly. A dedicated armchair detective and amateur baker, Zeta lives in a picturesque coastal village with her family and a rescue pug who acts as her sounding board for plot twists.
A Psychic Midlife
New job. New powers. Old murder.
When a vision hits Mel Bracewell at an estate sale, she thinks she's having a stroke. Nope. She's just developed psychometry at fifty-three. She can touch objects and see their histories, feel the emotions embedded in them.
Chicago's Office of Paranormal Affairs recruits her immediately. Suddenly Mel's trading her corporate cubicle for a converted firehouse staffed by a telekinetic detective, a too-enthusiastic medical examiner, and a front-desk witch who's secretly terrifying.
Her first case: a twenty-year-old murder someone went to great lengths to hide. And someone's been leaving evidence specifically for Mel to find. Manipulating her visions. Leading her toward a secret that could destroy one of Chicago's most respected supernatural families.
Good thing she spent decades managing impossible people. These just happen to have powers.
Perfect for readers who love second-chance-at-life heroines, slow-burn romance with a brooding widower, found family in unlikely places, supernatural cold cases, and cozy mysteries where the cat knows more than everyone in the room.
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A Dangerous Midlife
Some monsters stop. Others just wait.
Three months at Chicago's Office of Paranormal Affairs, and Mel Bracewell has finally figured out her life. She's got a job she's good at, a boyfriend who makes her laugh, and psychic abilities she can actually control.
Then the bodies start turning up.
Thirty years ago, someone hunted people with newly-awakened magical abilities. Six victims. Zero arrests. The murders stopped as suddenly as they started.
Now they've started again.
The only way to catch this killer is to read the old crime scenes. Which means Mel has to experience thirty years of murders firsthand. Every death. Every moment of terror. Every clue the original investigators missed.
Her gift has never cost her this much. But walking away isn't an option. Not when the killer's pattern points to one terrifying possibility: he's just getting started.