SHEAFFER BLUE can’t hold a job, a boyfriend, or her place in line at the liquor store. But she can solve murders. This genre mystery involves sex, violence, and humor and is the first in a six-part series.

In Blood on a Blue Moon, set in Seattle’s houseboat community, Sheaffer — just Blue to her buddies— tackles corrupt politicians, big money, and killers who think nothing of torching an old woman and blowing up her neighbors. In her current job as an insurance investigator, Blue must join forces with DAVID CHEN, a high-ranking detective new to the Seattle police department. Chen is precise, organized and diligent—the polar opposite of Blue. Their relationship, at first, is icy but over the course of their investigations, they become lovers.

Port Commissioner, LAWRENCE WINSLOW, was a college student when he killed a man. Although the death was an accident, Lawrence kept things quiet for fifty years. Two women, however, know his secret. The women do not know each other or that each is blackmailing Lawrence. Lawrence doesn’t know the identity of his blackmailers. When EILEEN DUPONT discovers that she has a rival in the blackmail game (a senior citizen named SHIRLEY CANTRELL), she enlists her daughter’s help and arranges to have Shirley killed. Her daughter, BEVERLY, is married to Lawrence Winslow making for a tangled web indeed.

While trying to mislead the police and the insurance investigator, Eileen and Beverly continue their killing spree.. They attempt to kill Blue but only succeed in wounding her and blowing up her home—a 40-foot sailboat. Blue is devastated, heart-broken, and furious—now the hunt for the murderer/s is not only a job, it’s personal.

Ultimately, Lawrence and Beverly die, and Eileen goes to prison. Blue is left homeless and alone, but she’s strong, and she will move on to new lovers and to solving more murders.