A new receptionist. A mysterious death. A talking cat. A haunting. A village in disguise with dark secrets.The Woodend Cottage Hotel has stood at the end of Millerfield Village, Kent, for as long as anyone remembers. Miss Laura Howcroft has been receptionist for only three months. The naturally suspicious villagers eye her with suspicion as a “foreigner”. Fortunately, the villagers don't know just how unusual Laura is.While in every other respect s...

Screams without explanation. A dead boarder. An investigator knows something is off about the case…When beautiful and mysterious Rebecca is found murdered in her extended-stay suite, the Rockport police are baffled by the apparent senseless brutality of the crime. The only clue to what happened to the young woman appears to be the way she died—a blow to the back of her head, with a baseball bat or golf club.Detective Inspector Richard Watson must n...

Antique pickers Sherri Green and her bff, lovable town gossip Carol O’Brien, search for treasure amid the trash in their small midwestern town of Paradise.What they find is more than they bargained for.When they score a box of antique vases at a local auction in nearby Round Bottom, it sets off a chain of events that makes a competing picker see red. But that’s not the worst of it. Someone in the tight-knit picking community ends up dead.Can Sherri and Carol discove...

When antique pickers Sherri Green and Carol O’Brien get first dibs on the goods at a farm auction, one of them finds something more sinister. The missing farmer. Dead.Add a shady real estate agent and family and neighbors whose lives would be easier with the farmer out of the picture and you’ve got a puzzle that Sherri can’t help but piece together.Can Sherri and Carol along with the help of Deputy Leon Fletcher figure out who murdered the farmer?Cotton Picking Murd...

What does a creepy doll, a small town thrift store, and a missing woman have in common?When antique pickers Sherri Green and Carol O'Brien take a day trip to Broom Top to visit Maisy's Miracles, trouble brews. At Maisy's small thrift store jam packed with treasures they learn that Maisy Dupree, the shop owner, has been missing for two months.Sherri and Carol get busy trying to piece together what happened to the sweet elderly lady.They come across shady characters a...

When Sherri Green is the winning bidder of a box of ephemera at an auction, she thinks it's just an innocent box of old papers. But a stack of letters from the 1970s grabs her attention and she's off.With the help of her gossipy antiques picking parter, Carol O'Brien, Sherri tracks down the girl who wrote the letters and unravels a mystery decades old.Pick a Letter is a clean, short read perfect for lovers of cozy mysteries set in a small town that feature an amateur sleuth...

When one of antique pickers Sherri Green and Carol O'Brien's best customers dies, they become suspicious. Was the cause of death really an accident?After learning that Benedict Joslin's death likely was not an accident as originally thought, the pair begins digging around to find out who killed the old man.The problem is Benedict wasn't very well liked and the suspect list keeps getting longer.Fatal Pickings is a clean, short read perfect for lovers of cozy mysteries set in...

The rodeo’s in town, and a Texas bookstore owner may have to lasso a killer . . . “The conclusion proves to be as unexpected as it is satisfying.” —Kings River Life. MagazineCharli Rae Warren is back home in Hazel Rock, Texas, spending her time reading, collecting, and selling books—at least, the ones that don’t get eaten first by her father’s pet armadillo. Running the family bookstore is a demanding job, but solving murders on the si...

Meet Kat Harper, small-town girl turned amateur sleuth. Can she solve the mystery of her animal-loving neighbor's murder without getting killed herself?Kat hasn't been back in her childhood hometown of Cherry Hills, Washington, very long before a murder next door thrusts her into a police investigation. She doesn't intend to get involved, but what choice does she have when Mrs. Tinsdale's now orphaned tortoiseshell cat shows up on her doorstep looking for help? Aft...

An up-and-coming ghostbuster and her motley crew tackle a devilish high-wire act, aided (or more often, interrupted) by her rakish ex and the sarcastic reporter she can't seem to shake—from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Crazy Spooky Love.Maplemead Castle is crawling with ghosts, and the new owners need them gone. When Melody Bittersweet and the Girls’ Ghostbusting Agency arrive on scene, they quickly identify the main troublemaker sw...

A tarnished old flute, a falling down house, and a mystery nearly sixty years old.At the Paradise flea market, antique pickers Sherri and Carol hunt for treasures to resell. When Carol finds an old flute that she can't seem to live without, a mystery unfolds that they can't leave alone until its solved.Pick a Tune is a clean short read. It’s perfect for lovers of cozy mysteries that feature an amateur sleuth.Be sure to check out the rest of the book...

Rachael will do anything to protect her bakery from the evil Bakermatic Baked Goods Company. Does that include murder?A fast-paced cozy mystery from USA Today Bestselling Author Stacey AlabasterRachael is a pastry chef with a boutique bakery. When a food critic dies after eating a pie from Rachael’s Bakery, she is quickly labeled the prime suspect. Faced with a police investigation that doubts her innocence, she has no choice but to find the real killer. Wi...