Following her lifelong dream, Hope Jones opens the Brontë Bookshop in the small town of Sweet Springs tucked away in the rolling, green hills of the Virginia piedmont. Her best friend Peggy Sue Roswell assists Hope along with her smart, spirited fifteen-year-old daughter Stacey. Their tuxedo cat Nozy Cat, the bookshop mascot, likes to sleep by the cash register while he guards it.One summer morning, Hope opens up the bookshop and finds the town’s handyman Hugo Spangler lying dead i...

Hope Jones operates the Brontë Bookshop in the hamlet of Sweet Springs amid the rolling, green hills of the Virginia piedmont. Her best friend and business partner Peggy Sue Roswell assists Hope along with Stacey, her smart, spirited fifteen-year-old daughter. Their tuxedo feline Nozy Cat, always opinionated and outspoken, is the bookshop mascot. A local woman, Marian Hightower, is discovered murdered inside her farmhouse, and the puzzling mystery begins to unfold. The three murder suspect...

Hope Jones runs the Brontë Bookshop in the small town of Sweet Springs tucked away in the rolling, green hills of the Virginia piedmont. Her best friend Peggy Sue Roswell assists Hope along with her smart, spirited fifteen-year-old daughter Stacey. Their tuxedo cat Nozy Cat is the bookshop mascot. Hope decides to get to bottom of the hit-and-run fatality of her husband J.D. from four year ago, which Sergeant Trogg and the police have ruled as a murder. The possible murder suspects include ...

Hope Jones operates the Brontë Bookshop in the hamlet of Sweet Springs, Virginia. Her best friend and business partner Peggy Sue Roswell assists Hope along with Stacey, her smart, spirited fifteen-year-old daughter. Their tuxedo feline Nozy Cat, opinionated and outspoken, is the bookshop mascot. The owner of the Tastes Like More Bakery reports the murder victim Jessica Grey in the kitchen, and Sergeant Trogg asks Hope to join the police investigation. She and Peggy Sue along with Nozy Cat ...

Hope Jones operates the Brontë Bookshop in the hamlet of Sweet Springs, Virginia. Her best friend and business partner Peggy Sue Roswell assists Hope along with Stacey, her smart, spirited fifteen-year-old daughter. Their tuxedo feline Nozy Cat, opinionated and outspoken, is the bookshop mascot. The piano teacher Bree Crensahw becomes a murder victim, and Sergeant Trogg asks Hope to join the police investigation. She and Peggy Sue along with Nozy Cat soon identify the three murder suspects...

Piper and Bill Robins, a retired married couple, are enjoying their leisure years spent in the tranquil, leafy Washington, D.C. suburb of Beverly Park, Virginia. Bill watches “Pawn Stars” on TV and mows his lawn while Piper shops for clothes and solves crossword puzzles. One sunny June afternoon, Emily Davenport, who lives in California, telephones Bill and asks if he’ll check on her elderly mother Anna living next door to the Robinses. She hasn’t answered Emily’s repeated attempts to call...

From USA Today bestselling authors Sally J. Smith & Jean Steffens comes a ho-ho-hilarious Mystic Isle Mystery...'Tis the season at The Mansion on Mystic Isle, and Melanie Hamilton, resident tattoo artist at the resort renown for its supernatural atmosphere, can feel the holiday spirit everywhere in the Louisiana bayou. The festive mood runs deeper than just the tinsel, mistletoe, and twinkling lights, as the milk of human kindness is flowing with gift giving, good cheer, and donati...

When Birds & Bees owner Amy Simms volunteers to act in a local production of Annie, Get Your Gun, she finds herself upstaged by a killer waiting in the wings . . .Who’s got time for birdwatching? Amy has enough to do running her shop, fighting attempts by the town planning commission to demolish her old Victorian house, and rescuing an injured towhee. Yet somehow she allows herself to get roped into performing in the Ruby Lake, North Carolina, community theater’s ...

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...

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...

Coffeehouse manager and reluctant sleuth Juliet Langley returns in a gripping novel from the bestselling author of Death Before Decaf and Mug Shot. Just as things are perking up in Nashville, a serial killer sends tensions foaming over.Juliet’s personal and professional lives have recently received an extra jolt of energy. Her romance with the hunky detective Ryder Hamilton continues to simmer, and business at Java Jive has never been better. But her good mood quic...

Her Next SaleWhen Sarah Winston started the virtual garage sale, it seemed like a keystroke of genius and the next logical step in her business. No more collapsing card tables and rainy-day washouts. But what began as a fun way to run garage sales during the long New England winter has become a nightmare of managing people and putting out fires. Online, she can avoid the crowds--but not the crazies.May Be Her LastShe certainly never...