People with something to hide.
Welcome to Eli Ramsey’s world
The connections are good.
The motives are better.
A chamber of commerce brings a community’s most connected people together. In Craig W. Turner’s mysteries, that also means bringing together their rivalries, secrets, and competing versions of the truth.
Follow private investigator Eli Ramsey from networking receptions to gala ballrooms and golf-course fairways. These are mysteries for readers who enjoy humor, local politics, business intrigue, and a professional world with plenty to hide.
Three events. Three investigations.
Read the series in order
Book 1
Networking Nightmare
A networking reception. A dead attorney. Eli Ramsey’s first murder case pulls him into West Sparta’s business agendas and political maneuvering.
Book 2
Gruesome Gala
A black-tie chamber gala turns deadly. With a major investment on the line, Eli has twenty-four hours to challenge a very convenient explanation.
Book 3 · Latest release
Treacherous Tournament
A Florida golf tournament. A missing journalist. A multibillion-dollar development that gives everyone a reason to control the story.
Inside Treacherous Tournament
A chamber golf tournament.
A community at a crossroads.
Eli arrives in Orange Grove to quietly assess the mood around a controversial tech development. Then a local journalist disappears during the tournament and is found dead near the seventeenth hole.
Developers, preservationists, landowners, politicians: everyone has a stake in what happens next. Eli’s own assignment makes finding the truth even more complicated.
The author behind the chamber doors
He knows this world.
That’s what makes it fun.
Craig W. Turner has spent more than twenty years leading, staffing, advising, and serving chambers of commerce. His fiction draws on the networking receptions, civic ambition, local politics, and business relationships that shape a community.
As founder and president of Momentum and Momentum AI, he brings an insider’s understanding to Eli Ramsey’s investigations. Craig lives in Western New York.
A few things to know
Your next case starts here
What are The Chamber of Commerce Mysteries?
A mystery series by Craig W. Turner featuring private investigator Eli Ramsey. Each book explores the people, politics, and business relationships surrounding chamber of commerce events.
Which book features a chamber of commerce golf tournament?
Treacherous Tournament, Book 3, takes Eli to a Florida golf tournament and a murder investigation tied to a controversial development project.
What is the reading order?
Start with Networking Nightmare, continue with Gruesome Gala, then read Treacherous Tournament.
Do I need to work at a chamber to enjoy the books?
No chamber experience required. The stakes are familiar: ambition, reputation, money, and the stories people tell to protect them.