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A Deadly Chapter…

When Maggie Bell attends an elegant luncheon hosted by her landlady, Mrs. Peacock, she expects fancy food and awkward conversation with Fair Haven’s wealthiest women. She doesn’t expect several guests to collapse. Or for one of them to die from arsenic poisoning.

Suspicion quickly falls on reclusive farmer Gertrude Wheeler, the anti-socialite who had a grudge against the victim. But Maggie isn’t convinced. As she digs into the secrets hiding beneath Fair Haven’s elite, s...

RELEASE DATE APRIL 16

When a glamorous stranger leaves behind a tote bag of books at the Bookish Café, Maggie Bell is certain it’s only a matter of time before their owner returns. She’s wrong. By the next morning, the woman is dead.

When Maggie discovers cash hidden inside the books, tucked between the pages, she tries to return the money to the grand Oswald estate where they were purchased. Instead, she finds herself stepping into a tangled web of family disputes, suspicious stranger...

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When a glamorous stranger leaves behind a tote bag of books at the Bookish Café, Maggie Bell is certain it’s only a matter of time before their owner returns. She’s wrong. By the next morning, the woman is dead.

When Maggie discovers cash hidden inside the books, tucked between the pages, she tries to return the money to the grand Oswald estate where they were purchased. Instead, she finds herself stepping into a tangled web of family disputes, suspicious strange...

Love cozy mysteries with books, coffee, and small-town secrets?

You can now enjoy Books 1–3 of the Bookish Café Mysteries in one convenient box set, perfect for binge reading or gifting to a fellow mystery lover.

Also available in audiobook format if you prefer to listen while you cook, commute, or relax with a cup of coffee.

Included in the box set:

• A Book to Kill For
• Bloodier Than Fiction
• Story of a Murder

Three mysteries. One café. Plenty of secrets.

Grab the ebook or a...

A vanished antiques dealer.
A mysterious brooch.
A Christmas secret.

When a frightened antiques dealer disappears days before Christmas, Sophie Grant finds a Victorian brooch left on her pillow with a note that says only, “For safekeeping.”

With Max and Jesse by her side, Sophie follows a trail of clues that leads back to the Penwick Mansion and uncovers a family secret buried for generations.

The post...

Tail of the Moon Ritual is available now everywhere! While the ebooks for the rest of the Wonder Cats Mysteries is exclusive to Amazon Kindle and Kindle Unlimited subscribers, Book 12 is available across all retailers for a limited time! The paperback is always available for everyone.

Cath Greenstone is running out of time. The Moon Ritual is nearing and her potion refuses to come together, no matter how carefully she follows the steps. When a series of strange break-ins unsettles Wonder Fa...

If you’ve been waiting to curl up with Cath, Bea, and their magical cats again, I have purr-fect news!

For a limited time, every ebook in The Wonder Cats Mysteries is now exclusive to Amazon Kindle and included with Kindle Unlimited. KU subscribers can read the entire series as part of their membership, while everyone else can still purchase the ebooks and paperbacks directly from Amazon.

The ebooks and paperbacks for every book in this series will always be available for purchase on A...

The 12th book of the Secret Agent Granny series is now out!

When Cheerville’s Historical Society launches its first Halloween Ghost Walk, retired CIA agent Barbara Gold expects fog machines, costumes, and a few silly scares. Instead, she and her friend Liz discover the dead body of a local antiques dealer hidden inside the carriage house.

Soon the town is buzzing again with talk of its old ghost legend, the Widow of Whitcomb Hill, as rumors fly and tourists flock to see the spookiest side...

Book 7 of The Bookish Cafe Mysteries is now out everywhere. In Book Fair Secrets, Maggie Bell thought Fair Haven’s annual book fair would be all literary gossip, rare editions, and author autographs. But when a famous local writer turns up dead in a hotel elevator, she stumbles into a real-life whodunnit.

Otto Deitz’s explosive new novel lays bare the town’s secrets and scandals, barely disguising the real people behind them. Now, half of Fair Haven has a motive. As the suspect list grows...

The long awaited follow-up in the cozy mystery series is finally out everywhere!

After a blissful honeymoon in the Bahamas, Amelia Harley returns to The Pink Cupcake expecting nothing more dramatic than a frosting emergency. But Evelyn Waters, a notoriously difficult customer with a flair for public tantrums, storms in claiming Amelia’s cupcakes made her sick. By the next day, Evelyn is dead, and all fingers point to The Pink Cupcake.

Determined to clear her name, Amelia digs into the...