Debra Gaskill

Think your husband is unfaithful? Call Fitz.Niccolo 'Fitz' Fitzhugh is the retired cop who runs Fitzhugh Investigations, whose business revolves around digging up dirt for local divorce lawyers. He knows, maybe better than anyone, how an unfaithful male thinks. After all, his police career came to an abrupt end when he slept with the police chief's slinky wife-and he's sleeping on his office couch because his own wife, cellist and college professor...

TOXIC FITZ IS A FINALIST FOR THE 2019 SILVER FALCHION AWARD FOR BEST SUSPENSE Hometown star Nora Solomon was poised for fame when she was found dead in her barn. It's a sad end to a long acting career that was ready to explode with the upcoming release of two movies. Then Nora's nephew contacts Rustbelt PI Niccolo 'Fitz' Fitzhugh to claim Nora was murdered, even though there's nothing to suggest that she died from anything other than a heart attack. The...

When a young university student Phillipa Huddleston sits down in the office of Fitzhugh investigation, she wants Fitz to find her mother, Barbara Huddleston. The problem? She's been gone for four years and the police were never notified. Why wouldn't her father report his wife missing? Had he killed her? Or why didn't Pippa's wealthy grandparents do the same? The case takes Fitz out of the familiar environs of his hometown, Fawcettville, to New Tunstall,...

In this short story, Susan returns to a Southern Ohio cabin to hide the evidence of a twenty-year affair with Benjamin, Miriam's husband. When Miriam shows up at the cabin, both women learn the terrible cost, love can exact.

What's scarier for Rust Belt PI Niccolo Fitzhugh? A dead body in the trunk of burning car or waking up in bed with prosecutor Alicia Linnerman after a blistering drunk? Fitz's life has been turned upside down since the death of his beloved wife Gracie. Outside of work, he's holed up at home alone, drowning in his grief. But sex with Alicia has him thinking she believes there might be something more than being friends with benefits-something Fitz needs...

Barns are burning on farms all around Jubilant Falls, Ohio -but that's the least of newspaper editor Addison McIntyre's problems. The daughter of Golgotha College president Dr. Seaford Thorn has come up missing - along with $500,000 from the college's endowment fund. When Addison's own daughter Isabella, already suspended from school for assaulting a teacher, attempts suicide , Addison must come to terms with the real meaning of family secrets- her...

When Columbus, Ohio, businesswoman Lisa Harper tries to change her name following her wedding, she gets a rude awakening: the social security number she's used all her life isn't hers. When Ames Flaherty, the lawyer hired to find out the truth, discovers her birth certificate is also forged, Lisa finds she's been living a counterfeit life.If she's not the daughter of Dr. Regina Harper, an art professor in the hippie village of Jasper Crossing, then...

A Saturday of ballistic therapy at the Fawcettville gun range turns bloody for PI Niccolo 'Fitz' Fitzhugh when local social worker and community theater star Anna Maria Ippolito is found murdered in her home. It's personal too-he's been casually dating Anna Maria following his disastrous break up with prosecutor Alicia Linnerman. The discovery of a strange coded journal at Anna Maria's home makes Fitz and Anna Maria's sister Carlotta wonder if she's...