A Helen Wiels Mystery Series

If Helen Wiels can't live up to her name, her new job may prove deadly! The common mispronunciation of Helen's last name makes it sound like she's 'Hell-on Wheels.'  The newly minted librarian is anything but that! Yet when she's unfairly fired with no legal recourse, she manages to coerce her way into a new job, cataloging a library at a private estate.  Arriving at the secluded manor, Helen learns that a hundred years earlier, the great-grandmother of her new employer, business mogul Jackson Wagner, disappeared without a trace.  More recently, Jacson's fiancee also disappeared, and no one, including him, seems very concerned.  After boys with a metal detector uncover a woman's body in the nearby woods, and Helen discovers that young women have been disappearing from the area for at least ten years, she begins to wonder just how safe she really is in the otherwise tranquil setting. If Helen can't figure out what's behind the disappearances and learn to emulate her alter-ego Hell-on Wheels, she may just be the next woman to go missing! This cozy mystery, set in Wisconsin, has intrigue, suspense, and romance. Books in The Helen Wiels Mystery Series: Past Matters, Book 1 Money Matters, Book 2 Life Matters, Book 3 Relative Matters, Book 4 Fatal Matters, Book 5 Truth Matters, Book 6

A new city. A new job. A new threat to her life? Helen Wiels has moved to San Francisco for her new job with a private society. She's still having trouble living up to the mispronounciation of her surname, which makes it sound as if she's 'Hell-on Wheels.' The reticent librarian hasn't been able to completely adopt that persona yet, but at times her alter-ego, the forthright and outspoken 'Hell-on,' has come in handy. Life in the city on the bay was not turning out the way Helen had expected. What seemed like a generous salary was proving to be less than adequate, even though she'd rented an apartment almost too small for one person. The dank, dark basement space where she has to work would make even a coal minor wary. Helen feels she has no choice but to put up with it all; she needs the job and she's signed a lease. Then she discovers a dead body in her workspace... and unfortunately soon learns that won't be the worst thing to happen to her in San Francisco. This cozy mystery with a romantic twist is the second book in the Helen Wiels Mystery series. Books in the Helen Wiels Mystery series: Past Matters, Book 1 Money Matters, Book 2 Life Matters, Book 3 Relative Matters, Book 4

There is a saying that the road to hell is paved with good intentions... and hell is just where Helen Wiels thought she was  heading when, with the best of intentions, her fiance, Jackson Wagner, hires an assistant for her. That assistant is her former boss, the woman who got Helen fired from her first job after she'd graduated from library school. Helen thought the assistant's job was temporary, but she was wrong.  The position was permanent, and worse, the woman was going to live with them. Not even Jackson's manor is big enough when the sniping, ill-tempered harridan is around. Things went from bad to worse the night  Jackson failed to come home. Helen can't convince anyone in authority that Jackson did not disappear voluntarily. The boundaries between friends and enemies became nebulous. No one was trustworthy when Helen was left on her own to figure out what happened to her fiance. Life Matters is Book 3 in the Helen Wiels Mystery series. Books in this series: Past Matters, Book 1 Money Matters, Book 2 Life Matters, Book 3 Relative Matters, Book 4

Helen Wiels is keeping secrets. They aren't hers, but if she breathes a word about them, it could mean the end of some friendships she values. Helen's past is not exactly a secret, but there was something in it she probably should have told Jackson Wagner before they married. She hopes when she does tell him, he won't resent that she hadn't been as honest with him as he'd been with her about his own family's past. With Jackson's encouragement, Helen attempts to get some closure on her personal history. In doing so, she uncovers unsettling secrets about her relatives, and acquires a stalker in the form of a reporter who wants her story, and appears willing to do anything to get it. Or is the stalker after her for an entirely different reason? Set in a small town in Northern Wisconsin, Relative Matters is Book 4 in the Helen Wiels Mystery series. The other Books in the series are: Past Matters, Book 1 Money Matters, Book 2 Life Matters, Book 3 Fatal Maters, Book 4 Truth Matters, Book 5

Helen Wiels Wagner is as stunned as the rest of the town at the death of a woman she'd never considered her friend. While everyone from the sheriff to the woman's husband is willing to accept the tragedy, Helen is unable to do that. It's not denial, Helen is certain; it's that things aren't adding up right. Nor are things going well at her new temporary job. She still isn't sure if she wants to be a librarian, but she's positive that her job as cashier at her cousin-in-law's garden center won't turn into a career for her. And that conclusion has nothing to do with her obnoxious supervisor or her annoying coworkers. Downtime at the garden center gives Helen too much time to think about the circusmstances of the woman's death. When no one will give credence to her theory, Helen decides to take matters into her own hands. FATAL MATTERS is the fifth book in the Helen Wiels Mystery series. It is set in Wisconsin, and picks up about six months after RELATIVE MATTERS ends. The other books in this series are: PAST MATTERS, Book 1 MONEY MATTERS, Book 2 LIFE MATTERS, Book 3 RELATIVE MATTERS, Book 4

An unexpected, unwelcome announcement. A medical emergency,. A tragic news report.   Helen WielsWagner's normally placid life was thrown into a turmoil by a series of unforeseen events that threw her off kilter to the point where she thought she was losing her mind, or someone was trying to 'gas light' her. With her imagination running wild,  Helen begins to catastrophize every aspect of her life, only able to see the worst outcome for anything that happens. With help from a friend, she learns of maters that could explain some of the recent strange occurences in her life. But will anyone believe Helen's theory before it's too late to save her daughter and herself.