Hall Pass: A Womens Mystery Fiction

The Easton City Files Womens Mysteries Series Book 1

In Easton City, every hall pass leads somewhere you shouldn’t go.

HALL PASS: A Mara Keene Mystery
Series: The Easton City Files · Book One

She took a three-week sub job. She found a conspiracy. When quick-witted education consultant Mara Keene agrees to cover classes at elite Easton Heights Academy, she expects teen drama and bad coffee—not a digital hall pass pinging from a teacher who vanished three days ago. The system says it’s impossible. The city’s power players say to drop it. Mara’s curiosity says otherwise.

With a caffeine-fueled IT specialist, a too-calm security officer, and a skeptical detective orbiting the case, Mara follows a breadcrumb trail of erased footage, falsified grants, and encrypted messages that points far beyond one school’s pristine glass halls. In a city that worships image, truth is encrypted—and someone would kill a career to keep it that way.

Perfect for readers who love:

• Smart, funny female sleuths with sharp inner monologue
• Urban mystery thrillers with tech intrigue (PG-13 tension, no gore)
• Academic/office conspiracy vibes—polished corridors, dirty secrets
• Only Murders in the Building meets Carrots with a sleek, modern edge

What you’ll get:

• High-stakes investigation inside an elite high school
• Digital breadcrumbs: ghost hall passes, hacked logs, missing ten-minute video gaps
• Snappy banter, found-family allies, and slow-burn trust
• A clean, satisfying reveal with a series hook for the next case

Meet Mara Keene
A former lit teacher turned consultant after exposing grade fraud, Mara is razor-smart, sarcastic, and done playing nice. She solves problems with brains over brawn, humor over panic—and when the system lies, she presses “enter.”

Series Note: Each Easton City Files novel delivers a complete mystery with an overarching conspiracy thread. Start with Hall Pass and keep going—next up: Open Enrollment.

If you enjoy clever heroines, tech-tinged puzzles, and page-turning suspense without the gore, click Buy Now and step into Easton City—where every permission comes with a price.