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Auralee Wallace

Auralee Wallace is the author of The Otter Lake Mystery series which includes Skinny Dipping with Murder and Pumpkin Picking with Murder. She has played many roles in her life, including college professor, balloon seller, and collections agent. When this semi-natural blonde mother of three children (and psychiatric nurse to two rescue cats) isn't writing humorous novels about quirky characters, she can often be found pontificating about the Golden Age of soap operas or warring with a family of peregrine falcons for the rights to her backyard.

Haunted Hayride with Murder: New Excerpt

By Auralee Wallace

Erica Bloom and Otter Lake Security are once again on the case in Haunted Hayride with Murder, Auralee Wallace’s sixth installment in the hilarious Otter Lake mystery series. Trick-or-treating just got a whole lot deadlier. Erica Bloom is loving everything about autumn this year in Otter Lake, New Hampshire: changing leaves, apple cider, cozy sweaters ……

Ring In the Year with Murder: New Excerpt

By Auralee Wallace

Ring In the Year with Murder by Auralee Wallace is the fourth book in the Otter Lake Mystery series. Take a visual tour of Ring In the Year with Murder with GIFnotes! It’s been a tough year for Erica Bloom. And with hours left on the clock and a killer crashing the party, it’s not…

Embracing Hygge: 5 Snowed-in Mysteries to Keep You Cozy Around the Fire

By Auralee Wallace

February 1, 2017

Auralee Wallace is getting hygge with it! The author of the Otter Lake Mystery series gets warm and cozy with 5 snow-filled mysteries and offers YOU a chance to win a copy of her latest book, Snowed In with Murder. Make sure to sign in a comment below for a chance to win! I’m a bad Canadian.…

Snowed In with Murder by Auralee Wallace

Snowed In with Murder: New Excerpt

By Auralee Wallace

January 30, 2017

Snowed In with Murder by Auralee Wallace is the 3rd book in the Otter Lake Mystery series (available February 7, 2017). There’s no retreat and no surrender when Erica Bloom finds herself stuck in a snow storm with a stone-cold killer… Erica has returned to Otter Lake, New Hampshire, to rekindle her romance with Sheriff…

Pumpkin Picking with Murder by Auralee Wallace

Pumpkin Picking with Murder: New Excerpt

By Auralee Wallace

August 25, 2016

Pumpkin Picking with Murder is the 2nd book in Auralee Wallace's Otter Lake Mystery series (Available August 30, 2016). When murder strikes in the Tunnel of Love, Erica Bloom has to rock the boat to catch a killer… For a small town like Otter Lake, New Hampshire, the annual Fall Festival is a big deal:…

Skinny Dipping with Murder: New Excerpt

By Auralee Wallace

February 28, 2016

Skinny Dipping with Murder by Auralee Wallace is the first in the new Otter Lake Mystery series introducing Erica Bloom who returns to her mother's spiritual retreat for women, Otter Lake, just as some childhood bullies start turning up dead (Available March 1, 2016). Erica Bloom is in no rush to return to Otter Lake,…

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