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. She is working on the second book of the series, She Had To Die, which will be available in the spring of 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...
Dax and Callahan have drifted south now, Dax working on a small construction project for the owner of the Paradise Bed & Breakfast in Key West, while Callahan makes himself at home, scrounging the occasional gourmet fish dinner and chumming around with the island’s Hemingway cats. But trouble soon shows up when Ginger Browne, the inn’s...
A missing insurance adjuster, a fortune in Russian art and artifacts, a Southern belle, and a devilishly handsome man who isn’t what he first appears to be. Cat Callahan senses a mystery and definitely has his work cut out for him this time.
Daxter and Callahan are in Savannah, Georgia—Dax taking handyman jobs, whenever, wherever, and Callahan...
Cat Callahan. The big gray cat with the battered right ear isn’t exactly a stray, nor is he homeless, since the kind-hearted folks of Warm Springs, Georgia, willingly invite him in and slip him all the tender morsels he wants. He’s known by most as ‘that darn cat’ a feline who shows up whenever something unexplained happens. But Callahan doesn’t...
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...
