Books About Great Fathers

Happy Father's Day to all of the great Dads out there.  I was very lucky: I had a wonderful father and like to include him in my stories; especially the "Nancy Keene" stories that I wrote as an homage to the wonderful Nancy Drew Mysteries I grew up reading.  Mr. Drew was every girl's ideal Dad: definitely not a "helicopter parent", he gave Nancy all sorts of freedom.  All she had to do all day was drive her "roadster" around and solve mysteries with no pestering Mom telling her to clean up her room.  How lucky could a girl be?!

In the first Nancy Keene Mystery I wrote, "The Buried Treasure on Route 66", her Dad is having trouble accepting the fact that his precious Nancy has just turned 18, has a boyfriend, and is going away to college.  How will he handle the empty nest?  And what lessons will he learn when he joins Nancy and her boyfriend on a road trip?  This book is rated PG.

My Nancy and her Dad are big fans of "A Prairie Home Companion" and she talks him into going on a pilgrimage with her in search of the towns that inspired Garrison Keillor's Lake Wobegon.  Her Dad wants to go on a Bob Dylan pilgrimage while they are in Minnesota, but Nancy has other plans when a bachelor farmer goes missing.  This book is called, "The Missing Bachelor Farmer."  This book is rated G.

I love New Orleans, so I have Nancy going there on vacation with her Dad and her friends. When a docent at Oak Alley Plantation is found dead, Nancy will not rest until she figures out whodunit. They have to leave New Orleans before the murder is solved, but Nancy twists her over-indulgent Dad around her little finger and he allows her to return to the Crescent City to stay with her fun and funky Aunt Audrey in "The Ghost in the Plantation".  This book is rated PG.

My most recent Nancy Keene Mystery is about Nancy, her Dad, and her girlfriend going to London. Nancy has her first serious crush at 16 when she sees that Daniel Craig is staying at the same hotel as they are.  She's a big fan of James Bond and even goes to Harrods to try a find an outfit like one of the Bond Girls to impress him.  When someone steals his BAFTA award out of his hotel room, Nancy is hot on the trail trying to figure out who stole it and why.  This book is called "The Stolen Mask".  This book is rated PG.

All of these books are available at Amazon, iTunes, Barnes and Noble, Google Play, Kobo, and Smashwords.  If you subscribe to Scribd, it's free.

A Book Inspired by Nancy Drew

The Buried Treasure on Route 66 is a humorous and PG-rated coming-of-age book about young love, rekindled old love, and a father who must learn to let his beloved daughter go. Its main character, Nancy Keene, a teenage sleuth, receives a brand new Prius from her father at her 18th birthday party and goes on a road trip on Route 66 to help a little old lady find a missing will. Along for the ride are her boyfriend and overprotective father.    

This eBook is available for only $1.99 at most online bookstores. 

 Also available in paperback at Amazon and Barnes and Noble.com

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Father/Daughter Relationships

Now that Mother's Day is over, it's time to think about your Dads.  I wrote this book after I inherited some Nancy Drew books and reread them as an adult. I was really touched by the close relationship between our favorite teenage sleuth and her Dad; a relationship made even stronger by the death of Nancy's mother.  So I created my own teenage sleuth, Nancy Keene, and wrote this PG-Rated humorous story about her relationship with her Dad, who has been worrying about her ever since started dating and talking about moving away to college.  He doesn't want to let her go and she worries about what he'll be like when she's gone.  How will he handle letting her go?  Find out as Nancy, her father, and boyfriend take a trip on Route 66, visiting several of its landmarks along the way, in search of a missing will.  Not only is “The Buried Treasure on Route 66” a tip of the hat to the Nancy Drew books, it’s also a romance novel about both young love and rekindled old love.

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Nancy goes to New Orleans, Lake Wobegon, and Takes A Road Trip On Route 66

If you're anything like me, now is the time of year when I start thinking about where I'd like to go on vacation in the upcoming year.  My husband and I have been fortunate enough to do a lot of traveling over the years.  Many of our favorite places show up in our books.
Our teenage sleuth, Nancy Keene, loves to travel, too.  Our three Nancy Keene' books have her trying to solve mysteries in New Orleans, Lake Wobegon, and on a road trip on Route 66.
  Our favorite U.S. city is New Orleans and we've been there many, many times.  Our mystery, "The Ghost in the Plantation" takes place there and we've tried incorporating as many of the locales of the Crescent City and Louisiana as possible.
We love the lore of Route 66, and after we went to Disney's California Adventure and saw the movie "Cars", we decided to write a story about the famous highway in "The Buried Treasure on Route 66".
  We've just come back from a pilgrimage to Minnesota where we searched for the fictional Lake Wobegon, and wrote a book called "The Missing Bachelor Farmer".   Check out our books at your favorite bookstores and we'll take you on a wonderful journey with our teenage sleuth, Nancy Keene.

Christmas Gifts for Book Lovers

Hello, everyone.  The Christmas season is officially here.  Are you wondering what to buy for that special person in your life who likes to read?  For baby boomers who grew up loving the Nancy Drew books, we wrote two PG rated mysteries about our teenage sleuth, Nancy Keene.  The books are:  "The Ghost in the Plantation" and "The Buried Treasure on Route 66".  Both are available in print on Amazon.com

Merry Christmas and Happy Reading,
Lewis Hathaway

Good News: Our Books Are Now In Paper and E-book Formats

Hooray!! Both of our Nancy Keene Mysteries are now available in paper and e-book formats!

Now, you no longer need an e-reader, and can read our books, "The Buried Treasure on Route 66" and "The Ghost In The Plantation",  the good old-fashioned way.

Here's a link to the paperbacks

The Buried Treasure on Route 66

Written as an homage to the Nancy Drew books, this humorous and PG-rated mystery about teenage sleuth, Nancy Keene, especially targets women baby boomers who grew up reading and loving the series. Gently poking fun at Nancy’s obscure knowledge, perfectionism, and need for control, this book concentrates and the relationship between Nancy and her father. Nancy has just turned 18, is in a serious relationship with her boyfriend, and is planning to move out of state to college. How will her father handle letting her go? Find out as Nancy, her father, and her boyfriend take a trip on Route 66, visiting several of its landmarks along the way, in search of a missing will. Not only is “The Buried Treasure on Route 66” a tip of the hat to the Nancy Drew books, it’s also a romance novel about both young love and rekindled old love.

This ebook is available at Amazon, Apple's iBookstore, Barnes and Noble, or any of your other favorite online retailers.

Purchase links: 

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Humorous PG rated Nancy Drew

Do people still read "Nancy Drew" mysteries? I inherited 6 books from the series and started reading them again after 40 years. I was struck by their innocence and how they've always made me smile. I loved the relationship between Nancy and her father. I loved the words "Chum" and "Roadster". In the first books of the series, the author uses the word "Machine" instead of "Car". Is that what cars were called in the early 1930s when the books were written? They are in Nancy Drew's world.

I got the idea to write my own version of a Nancy Drew mystery after reading my inherited books, and came up with the idea: "What if Nancy lives in 2013? She could use the internet to help her solve crimes. She could have all the latest gadgets at her disposal such as iPads, iPhone, Kindles, etc. What if her blue roadster is now a blue Hybrid? What if she spent the night with Ned while her father was out of town?!! Jeepers!  

This cozy mystery is not your mother's Nancy Drew Mystery: it is more like a sweet parody written by a fan (me) of the Original Text Nancy Drew Mysteries that were written in the 1930s. My story occurs in 2013:

The Buried Treasure on Route 66:

A Nancy Keene Mystery 

Only 99 cents at Amazon and at Barnes and Noble, Apple, Google Play, Smashwords, and Kobo.

eBook link at Amazon:

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