Cozy murder mysteries in the winter haven series

High Country Fiction

Home to the Winter Haven series of cozy murder mysteries Winter Haven is a very popular, albeit fictitious ski resort town in northern Colorado, nestled deep in the author’s imagination where Winter Haven Mountain towers...

Meet the Authors

Charlie Avera Pam Shanahan

Winter Haven Mystery Series

WINTER HAVEN: BOBCAT IN THE TREES “… I loved everything about this novel because the plot was airtight. The authors also carefully developed the storyline and characters, and the editing was flawless.”Jennifer Ibiam for Readers’...

High Country Fiction

Home to the Winter Haven series of cozy murder mysteries

Winter Haven is a very popular, albeit fictitious ski resort town in northern Colorado, nestled deep in the author’s imagination where Winter Haven Mountain towers above the town to the west and Pickens Peak looms high above to the east, majestically standing guard over the sleepy resort town.

At over 14,000 feet, Pickens Peak is a rugged, undeveloped wilderness area protected by the Bureau of Land Management.

But at 13,000-feet, Winter Haven Mountain has fifteen main ski runs on its front side that are generally easy, well-groomed, and family-oriented, with many more trails on the backside that offer greater challenges for advanced and expert skiers.

The legendary Detective Brad Sanders had left the high-stress meat-grinder of the Philadelphia Police Department three years ago, and moved to Winter Haven with his wife, Linda, to fill the vacant lead detective job in Winter Haven.

Follow Detective Sanders as he relies on his vast depth of investigative expertise to solve several difficult and intriguing murders that have plagued this sleepy mountain resort.

Meet the Authors

Charlie Avera

Pam Shanahan

Winter Haven Mystery Series

WINTER HAVEN: BOBCAT IN THE TREES

“… I loved everything about this novel because the plot was airtight. The authors also carefully developed the storyline and characters, and the editing was flawless.”
Jennifer Ibiam for Readers’ Favorite

Bobcat in the Trees

WINTER HAVEN: LAKE SECRETS

“Lake Secrets, the second book in the Winter Haven series, is a mystery with the same believable characters from the first book. With Brad Sanders as the lead detective, his wife Linda, and John Lambert, his partner, they pull you along with them as they work to solve the Lake Secret murder. The reader is able to follow as new clues are added and visualize different settings and locations that become important later in the book. It was easy to get involved in this story with its many twists and turns that kept this reader guessing the solution until the very end.”
Barbara Goodloe – Beta reader, reviewer

Lake Secrets

The legendary Detective Brad Sanders left the high-stress meat-grinder of the Philadelphia Police Department to fill the vacant lead detective job in the quiet ski town of Winter Haven high in Colorado’s Rocky Mountains. But after three years of enjoying life in the slow lane, Brad finds out that Winter Haven is not completely insulated from intrigue and crime. The peaceful resort town is interrupted by a suspicious death on a ski run and by other mysterious deaths around the small town.

Follow Brad and his partner, John Lambert, as they follow clues around the country to solve the strange mysteries.