Marilyn Wright Dayton
maredayt@yahoo.com
THE HIGHTOWER MURDER MYSTERY SERIES
Copyright 2015-2026 by Marilyn Wright Dayton
Contact her at maredayt@yahoo.com.
"Murder On The Mesa", Hightower Mystery Book One is NOW available on both Amazon and Books.by!
"Think Murder She Wrote, Miss Marple, Hercule Poirot - All Rolled Into One!"
This is 'edge of your seat' reading, with 'engrossing characters'. Solving crime has no age limit. Meet four ladies who are in their 70's, led by Weezie Hightower, retired Private Investigator. Weezie and Guy Davis, retired detective, head across country to Arizona, and solve a murder mystery that has SEVEN suspects. And it only takes them SEVEN days to solve it. "Heartbreaking But Intriguing!"
On Amazon & Books.by: "The Faces of Murder", A Hightower Mystery, Book Two
With a murder mystery on a tense, atmospheric train stuck in the middle of nowhere, there is only one thing to do, ask 'retired' PI Weezie Hightower to lead the investigation. The Faces of Murder is a fast-paced, high-stakes mystery that explores crime and psychological intrigue with compelling, sometimes comical, characters.
There is something in a person's eyes that you cannot see anywhere else in the world. Something haunting and unsettling. Names can come and go, but not the faces. You don't forget a face, especially one that reflects a dead person. Or two.
Join the four ladies who love to solve murders and mysteries led by "Weezie". This time they set out to help solve a multi-murder mystery. Who are these dead people? Why don't their faces match their identities? And who killed them?
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Available Now! "Murder on Trial", A Hightower Mystery, Book Three
"Did he really do it? How do we prove he did...or didn't??"
A young man is going on trial for murder. There are almost too many clues...but no body! What is the real story? Retired P. I. "Weezie" Hightower and her three senior friends find the story confusing as they work together with Guy Davis to solve the 15-year-old mystery before the verdict that could send him to his death. Is he innocent? Where is the body? And what does this have to do with the hit and run accident 15 years ago that sent Crip to a wheelchair?
Where do you start an investigation? You speculate and hope that the truth comes out. Two mysteries that seem to have a connection, ending up in a courtroom truth. Murder On Trial is a gripping courtroom mystery filled with suspense, twists, and a tense legal battle between truth and deception.
This is the third murder mystery novel in the Hightower Mystery Series, based on characters who originated in several short stories written by the author Marilyn Wright Dayton. Follow along and join these four 'feisty' seniors as they pool their thoughts and ideas as they search for the answers.
Coming in 2026! "A Question of Murder", A Hightower Mystery, Book Four
Almost losing your life and your reality can become all-consuming. To 'finally solve the mystery can set you free', Weezie Hightower relives an all-consuming nightmare, from a reality where she fought death while her husband surrendered to it. Five years later, with her repeated nightmares still in a 'life in crisis' mode, she has to do what she can to gain the right perspective...the only way out now is to solve the mystery.
You can't solve mysteries through guesswork. You start with what you know and continue adding in more of what you know until there is nothing left of what you think you don't know. Logic. Reason. Speculation. Conviction. And yet, so many questions. Private Investigator couple Weezie and Earl Hightower had seen it all before. But, this time, they thought they knew all of the answers. What if they were wrong? Five years after Weezie was kidnapped and shot, on the edge of death, and Earl shot and killed, Weezie is beginning to wonder were they wrong and is the wrong man in jail? The convicted man James Nolan keeps contacting her, writing her letters from jail and professing his innocence.
She continues reliving it all in a horrible nightmare. When will it end? Perhaps she should talk with him. Perhaps she should reinvestigate. She knows he was there...he does admit it. But there was a second man there...did he actually do the shooting? Who is he and where is he now? So many question. Five years after she thought the case was closed, it's time to make sure. It is time to get the questions answered. And maybe then the nightmares will stop.
"A Question of Murder" is the fourth in the popular series, where a 'retired' P.I. Weezie Hightower and her friends Bitsy, Crip, Millie and Guy work together to solve challenging crimes that only they can solve. They may be in their late 60's or early 70's, but they can still pool together their thoughts in the big search for 'who dunnit'!
Coming 2027! "Murder on High", A Hightower Mystery, Book Five
"I can't breathe! Someone help me!"
No one expects to find dead bodies on a plane, but that is what happens to Bitsy, and her screams sound even louder up in the clouds. And Bitsy recognizes the victim...she has a history with him. Does that mean she will be a suspect? Or just a witness?
Bitsy and her three friends are taking a small holiday that will not end up as planned. Leading them in solving this mystery is "Weezie" Hightower, retired P. I. What they find could put their lives in danger, and would give them nightmares for a long time.
This is the fifth murder mystery novel in the Hightower Mystery Series, based on characters in several short stories written by the author Marilyn Wright Dayton. Follow along and join these four 'feisty' seniors as they pool their thoughts and ideas as they search for the answers.
Here is the series of five in the Hightower Murder Mysteries.
"Solving crimes has no age limit."
"Weezie" Hightower, 70-ish retired P.I. lives in a retirement facility in Rochester, N.Y. Over the next two years, she befriends three other 70-ish ladies and they enjoy one another's company so much, they are called "The Cackle Gang". The Hightower Mystery Series are stories of these engrossing characters, who along with their chief of security Guy Davis, retired detective, are called upon to help solve several mysterious deaths. Their 'office' is the senior living facility, but they go where the crimes need them to go, whether across the country or near 'home.'
Bitsy Sutton is a retired dancer/actress who is a quirky, 'ditsy' redhead who wears too much makeup and too-young-for-her clothes, a bit of a drama queen. Millie Swartout has always been a mother/grandmother and is a calming force to the other gals. Crip Cripton is a retired school teacher, who lives in a wheelchair, but is a funny, satirical, but delightful character who still 'teaches' others. And Weezie is their leader.
"Fun! Inventive! Engrossing Stories and Characters!"
