Lisa Bork's Books

For Richer, For Danger - sequel to For Better, For Murder

Sports car dealer Jolene Parker and her sheriff's deputy husband Ray have found new love in their life together. They're foster parents for Noelle, an adorable baby whose fugitive birth parents hightailed it out of their touristy Finger Lakes-area town. Jolene and Ray want to make their parenthood official, but the adoption hits a mysterious roadblock when the given name of Noelle's mother traces back to a dead girl.

As Jolene races to find the true identity of the secretive birth mother, she discovers an unsolved murder...and learns her family may be in extreme danger.

For Better, For Murder- an Agatha Award Finalist for Best First Novel of 2009

Jolene Asdale is one sale away from becoming a successful Finger Lakes businesswoman. But her dream stalls when a dead body tumbles out of the pristine Ferrari in her exotic car showroom.

Arriving on the scene to investigate is Deputy Ray Parker, Jolene's almost-ex-husband, whose suspicions are raised when he learns of Jolene's public (and allegedly violent) argument with the victim. When Ray discovers wads of cash in her home--along with signs that Jolene is colluding with her unpredictable, fugitive sister--he is all but convinced of Jolene's guilt.

Facing bankruptcy, a murder conviction, and a divorce from the man she still loves, Jolene will do whatever it takes to solve the crime and save herself from a loveless life behind bars...even if means careening into the path of a killer.

In SIckness and In Death- Broken Vows Mystery Series #3

Jolene Parker isn't sure what to think when her police deputy husband, Ray, unexpectedly brings home a new foster child. The impulsive son of a jailed car thief, twelve-year-old Danny has talents that include picking locks and hotwiring cars.

Following Danny's brief joyride in the car that he says is his dad's, a horrific surprise turns up in the trunk: a woman's arm. While Ray hunts down the victim's identity, Jolene tries to determine whether Danny's father did the deed. And it drives her straight into the killer's sights.