Hazel Turner Is in Too Deep, Crooked Lane Books, 2026
A laid-off mystery book editor turned lifeguard is thrust into a real-life whodunnit when she finds a dead body in her pool.
After her career implodes, twenty-nine-year-old Hazel Turner retreats to Whispering Willows, her childhood home in the Pennsylvania suburbs, and returns to her teenage lifeguard job to stay afloat. But her plans to spend the summer piecing her life back together are thwarted when she stumbles upon two mysterious deaths in the deep end.
Hazel saved the first victim, Patrick Mason, from drowning as a child. The second victim—whose skeletal remains are clenched in Patrick’s death grip—bring back even more traumatic memories. The remains are identified as belonging to the missing teenager from the last cold case her police officer dad worked on before his death.
Hazel knows that she should leave the investigation to the professionals. After all, she has edited enough bestsellers to know how the story goes. But with the swim club closed until further notice and the police stumped, she lets her penchant for mysteries kick into full gear.
With the help of her retired detective godmother, the elderly neighborhood know-it-alls, and her internet sleuth stepsister, Hazel swan dives into the hunt for the killer.
But when you disturb the waters, you never quite know what secrets will float to the surface.
Zen Garden Graveyard: A Little Time to Relax…Eternally, RP Minis, 2026
Zen Garden Snow Day: A Little Time to Play, RP Minis, October 2023
Zen Garden Beach Day: A Little Time to Relax, RP Minis, April 2023
Byberry State Hospital, Arcadia Publishing, 2013
A non-fiction pictorial history about the abandoned state mental hospital located in the outskirts of Philadelphia.
Looming on the outskirts of Philadelphia County since 1906, the mental hospital most commonly known as “Byberry” stood abandoned for 16 years before being demolished in 2006. At its peak in the 1960s, Byberry was home to more than 6,000 patients and employer to more than 800. With its own self-sustaining farm, bowling alleys, barbershop, ice cream parlor, federal post office, and baseball team, Byberry was a micro-community. Throughout its history, the hospital served as an educational institution for Philadelphia’s medical, nursing, and psychology students; was the site of a World War II Civilian Public Service conscientious objector unit; and a volunteering hot spot for local churches, schools, and Girl and Boy Scout troops. This book provides an unprecedented window into the good, the bad, the unusual, and the forgotten history of Byberry.
The images in this collection come from the Swarthmore College Peace Collection, Philadelphia City Archives, Pennsylvania State Archives, the Special Collections Research Center of the Temple University Libraries, the Library Company of Philadelphia, PhillyHistory.org, the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, and the personal collections of former staff members, among others.
