Beth Sherman Books In Order

Jersey Shore Books In Order

Dead Man’s Float (1998)
Death at High Tide (1998)
Death’s a Beach (2000)
The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea (2001)
Murder Down the Shore (2002)

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Dead Man’s Float

HER OLD HIGH SCHOOL CRUSH HAS CLEANED UP HIS ACT…
Annie Hardaway is a reluctant expert on house cleaning, horticulture, and pet care, who specializes in making some of the country’s most famous how to writers look good in print. But when her long ago high school crush is found dead in their New Jersey shore hometown, Anne has no idea ‘how to’ find out the truth. BY WASHING UP ON SHORE…
When Tigger Mills returned home to archly conservative devoutly religious Oceanside Heights, no one was happy to see him. Tigger left twenty years ago after being accused of setting fire to an old hotel that killed the owner’s little girl. Though the always maintained his innocence, no one believed him except then teenager Anne Hardaway. After Tigger’s lifeless body is pulled form the surf, everyone but Anne assumes it was suicide. Now this woman with a relentless knack for research makes it her mission to tackle the town’s closed minds, curious suspicions and ancient lies, to dredge the past and uncover a twenty year old motive for present day murder.

Death at High Tide

Oceanside Heights Becomes Hollywood By The SeaIn the quaint New Jersey seaside town of Ocean Heights, freelance ghostwriter Anne hardaway is frustrated by her latest assignment: a tell all autobiography of Mallory Loving, the former local sexpot who has made it big in movies. Even though Mallory’s new film is being shot in twon, Anne finds that her high profile subject is a first class prima donna. And Anne isn’t the only one having a hard time with the ego driven star. But Murder Wasn’t In The ScriptTreating the film’s crew, cast, locals and her husband like personal minions, Mallory is a woman whose popularity, like her career, is on the wane. As severaly accidents delay shooting, a series of threatening letters from a deranged fan unsettle the star’s fragile nerves. In the midst of the turmoil, the actress disappears only to resurface as a corpse. Though the police rule the death as an accident, Anne suspects murder. Using the biography as her calling card, Anne begins an investigation into Mallory’s murder to determine which suspect is only ‘acting’ innocent.

The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea

When Satan Comes to New Jersey…
A quaint coastal community that prides itself on it’s piety, the good people of oceanside Heights shudder collectively at word of the newest fad among local teens:devil worship! Despite rumors that old scratch himself has appeared at their beachside revels, the kids late night antics seem more ditsy than dangerous until ghostwriter Anne Hardway happens upon the corpse of young, would be witch Abby Podowski. All hell breaks loose, though a seasoned hand at crime solving, Anne doesn’t want to touch this case. But when the prime murder suspect an aprentice witchling and grandniece of an elderly friend disappears, Anne is pulled, against her better judgment, into an eerie, arcane world of black magic. And before a ‘witch hunt fever’ worthy of Salem infects the Heights,she’s going to unravell the dark web of murderous secrets and lies that surrounds the satanic activities of the Oceabside young even if there’s the devil to pay.