Novels
This award-winning novel consisting of six interwoven stories chronicles how Sara Boyd copes with the many losses in her life. In the third chapter,"Facing Front," an old reel of film sets off a series of recollections about her difficult relationship with her mother. Click on the title above for an excerpt from this chapter.
In desperate circumstances Sara and Phil vacillate between hurtful terror and heartbreaking heroics.
Shorter Fiction
Seventeen-year-old Sara is drawn reluctantly into visiting her mother's old haunts in Manhattan. Click on the title for an excerpt from the revised 2010 version as well as some special features.
Mysteries
In this classic country house mystery with a twist, the residents of Lady Viola Montfort-Snow's lavish garden estate would rather die than see her papers published...or would they rather kill? First in the series.
Roz Howard's English literature course syllabus is being used by a deadly serial killer as a how-to manual--for murder! Second in the series.
While sailing off the coast of Maine, Roz Howard and Alan Stewart encounter a "riddle of the sands" locked room mystery--on the beach of an uninhabited island! Fans of Kenney's earlier mysteries, Garden of Malice and Graves in Academe, will cheer the return of indomitable English professor-turned-sleuth Roz Howard. Third in the series.
Shorter Mystery Fiction
Visiting her Aunt Jessie on the coast of Maine, Roz solves a decades-old mystery. Originally published by Avon in the Malice Domestic Series, Number 8. Click on the title to read this mystery short story in its entirety.
Non-Fiction
An attempt to reconstruct my father as a person out of the odd bits and pieces--photos, report cards, letters--that are left after his sudden death.