French Lessons, One Woman’s Tale of Sex, Wine and House Renovation in La Belle France, is a romance about a middle-aged, newly-divorced American, Barbara Waldheim, who decides to reinvent her life and seek adventures in France. She buys a historic farmhouse in a tiny hamlet. To her surprise, while restoring the house, she herself undergoes a makeover and finds love in the process— but not the handsome Frenchman she expected. The charming tale, packed with entertaining tidbits about French life and customs, won honorable mention for memoir at the 2024 Paris Book Festival.

Vanished is an action-packed cozy mystery, full of twists and turns, which shifts between West Africa and France and was in part inspired by current events. While dining at their favorite French bistro, Barbara and Sam witness the theft of a valuable Nigerian tribal artwork, a N’kisi Kongo statue. They play detective and together with a parachute drop, a chase through the Sahara desert, and a Nigerian ceremony to summon the ancestral spirits, the secret the statue is protecting is revealed. Vanished earned honorable mention at the 2024 Paris Book Festival.

Missing is a cozy mystery based on a true story about a fabulous modern artwork which has disappeared from a medieval village church in France. American couple, Barbara and Sam, are vacationing in their charming village in Occitanie when controversy rears its head. What happened to the town’s famous Sonia Delaunay artwork? Where did it go? Who is hiding it and why? The expats investigate and learn about WWII Resistance fighters hiding from the Nazi SS Das Reich Division and modern day secrets buried in the church’s 14th century crypt, putting at risk the underpinnings of their own 15th century house.