Rebecca Barrett writes historical fiction, detective fiction, cozy mysteries, and short stories of life in the South. She lives and writes in the loveliest village on the bay, Fairhope, AL
It's the South. It's the Sixties. It's Murder. Currently, Rebecca is writing a detective series set in the deep South of the sixties featuring, Hugo August, a Vietnam veteran, as her protagonist. The first book, The Rat Catcher, is available wherever books are sold. The second book of the series, She Had To Die, is available on August 16, 2025.
Her historical fiction, Road's End, is a family saga set in the rural south of the early twentieth century. It follows the lives of three generations of the Carroll women who are ruled by passion. It is a story of love, betrayal, and dark secrets.
Cat Callahan Mystery Series features Callahan, cat of the street, cat of mystery... artful, cagey. A vagabond of the roads and rails. His traveling companion, Dax, an Army veteran, fancies him as Dirty Harry. Don't let his Scottish Fold ancestry fool you. He has the dead eye and the attitude.
Rebecca Barrett writes historical fiction, detective fiction, cozy mysteries, and short stories of life in the South. She lives and writes in the loveliest village on the bay, Fairhope, AL
It's the South. It's the Sixties. It's Murder. Currently, Rebecca is writing a detective series set in the deep South of the sixties featuring, Hugo August, a Vietnam veteran, as her protagonist. The first book, The Rat Catcher, is available wherever books...
Ruby Stanton is young, beautiful, envied. But some say her heart is as cold as her hair is fiery.
In the flashing light of a neon sign, Detective Hugo August is drawn by the siren’s call of her beauty. But Ruby is dead. Shot through the heart in a sleazy motel room in no man’s land. Who wanted her dead?
November in Mobile, Alabama is a long way from the horrors of the sweltering jungles of Vietnam.
In the fall of 1968, what passes for winter is coming to the heart of the deep South. And so are death, deception, draft evasion, drugs, and heartache.
Hugo August has come home, or at least the nearest thing to a home he has ever known. As a newly...
Road’s End is an historical novel set in the deep South between 1900 and WWII. It is the family saga of three generations of women ruled by passion. Helen Fitzgerald has a chance encounter with a dark and exciting man on a hot August night in 1898. He has come to Charleston in search of guns and money for the Fenian cause. When he sails back to...
Life happens in a boarding house, especially if your mother is prone to rent to male boarders...
My mother is fond of saying that life is full of situations and that it's up to us to make the most of them, good or bad. I've decided that at eleven and three-quarters years of age, my life is the crossroads of bad situations and there isn't a lot to made of them.
Southern ways, especially southern society's ways, always lends itself to entertaining stories...
I had managed to get through Ash Wednesday with my vow of abstinence intact. The ball gowns were divided into those destined for the cleaners, and those to be left at the Junior League Thrift Shop for recycling by some future patronesses of the Queens of the Nile or the Maids of Ophelia, better known as MOO...
Story ideas pop up in the oddest situations, inspired by life's little moments...
The Aging Lothario hangs out in the coffee bar, surrounded by older men he tolerates as the young women flitting in and out with their seventies sunglasses, stacked shoes, and short shorts ignore him. They stand at the bar flipping long locks of hair over their shoulders, intent on talking over each other in their need to be the center of attention.
He listens to his companions with half an ear and finally...
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After years, and many dollars, of struggling with established...
