Books by Phyllis Wachob

Kern Kapers #1

Vermilion Blew is a retired school librarian with dark shadows in her past. In her first mystery, a body found in a local orchard is not that of the man she thought it was, but the pursuit of the killer leads her into the local haunts and through the underbrush of Bakersfield California.

Kern Kapers #2

In her second mystery, Very is lured into more adventures by the discovery of a number of corpses exposed by the Killer Kern River.

Kern Kapers #3

Kern Kapers #3

Vermilion Blew has moved on from her mother’s house, so she thinks, and has acquired a new house, and a new cat that she names Cleopatra. She also has a new set of friends at Five Points, one of Bakersfield’s newest retirement communities and various new acquaintances invite her to join the pickle ball crowd, the crafter's club and insist she needs to gather with the right people in the book club. But when Very’s new acquaintances keep moving on to the marble forest, she begins to doubt that her move was a wise one, especially when she is the one to discover the body floating in the hot tub. Was the hot tub death just another older man on his last legs, or was it homicide? Very holds tight to her new circle of friends, but reaches out to her PI partner and her oldest friend, whose husband is a deputy sheriff, to solve the latest mystery.

Kern Kapers #4

Kern Kapers #4

The murder of the six-year-old girl from the small town of Cuyama had mesmerized the media for months. Vermilion Blew, just a few years older, was traumatized, mostly because she had known AnnaRose. Now, more than fifty years later, Very becomes embroiled in the investigation of the cold case. Along with Bradley Parker, aka the White Stetson, she prowls the small town of New Cuyama, remembering the places, the atmosphere and the claustrophobia of small-town life. While interviewing those witnesses who are still alive, she tries to tease out the truth. She wants to clear the name of AnnaRose’s biological father, but he is keeping secrets, as are a number of witnesses. In the meantime, she has put on hold her planned trip to Canada to search for her missing fiancé.

Teachers Abroad Series

Barbie Falcon is a blonde and ditzy English teacher who lives and travels in exotic places. Unfortunately, dead bodies and mysteries dog her whether in Cairo during the Arab Spring, in the historic Egyptian Oasis of Siwa, among the Fairy Chimneys of central Turkey or in the sinful back alleys of Singapore. The unfamiliar places and unusual people she encounters inspire her ingenuity and courage to unmask evil.

Travelers in Chinese Turkestan

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The Wayward Passports

In the summer of 1973, my husband and I were traveling in Greece and Turkey. From Ankara, we took regularly scheduled buses south to Konya, home of the Whirling Dervishes and further south, to the Read more…