Recent and Upcoming Releases
A Bagged Body
Paper, plastic, or murder?
Hadley James is finally in the kind of relationship she’s always wanted, with the guy who has always been there for her. So she couldn’t care less when her ex-husband, Tyler, comes to town, flaunting his swimsuit model girlfriend around Stoneybrook. When that same girlfriend is found dead in a dumpster behind Tyler’s family’s grocery store, Hadley wishes she’d paid a little more attention to the woman.
Tyler, the obvious main suspect, comes clean, admitting that he and the woman weren’t actually dating. They’d come to a mutual agreement to help each other out. What Tyler didn’t realize is how deep in trouble she was, or how far the killer would go to evade suspicion. And when the clues start pointing in Hadley’s direction, she and her Stoneybrook friends have to get involved to clear her name. As they dig into Tyler’s arrangement with the deceased woman, they realize Henley Grocery might not just be the site of the murder. The local grocery store shelves are stocked with secrets.
Recipes included: Champagne fig jam with candied ginger and apple Earl Grey almond jelly
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A Secret Staircase
Meg Dawson and the rest of the Morrisey residents can’t handle any more surprises in their beloved downtown Seattle apartment building.
So, when Meg finds a hidden staircase leading down to the famous Seattle Underground, she’s tempted to turn back. The area was supposed to be closed off long ago. But turning back isn’t so easy when she stumbles on not one, but two bodies in the hidden space. And even though the two deaths are separated by a century, the victims have more in common than Meg first realizes.
Meg must sort through the Underground’s storied past to find the truth about who took the two lives and why if she has any hope of stopping it from happening once more. This time, the next body might not take a hundred years to show up.
Warning: This series is best read in order (to avoid spoilers) so if you haven’t read A Body in 3B yet, go read that before you look at the excerpt below. 😉
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The Fear and Meow
Will release fall of 2023
He went too fur.
The town of Button, Washington is already as “cute as a button” with its sewing themed streets, quaint buildings, and colorful pastel window trimmings. But Godfrey Crane thinks the town can be even better. That’s why he founds the Button Beatification Society. From its inception, the organization receives vocal opposition from locals, especially one of Louisa’s bookshop regulars, Cricket.
Cricket doesn’t hold back when it comes to Godfrey and his organization, so when Lou finds the man murdered, all eyes turn to Cricket. Even though she has an alibi, she’s not out of trouble yet. Convinced that the killer came from within his own organization, Cricket hatches a plan to infiltrate the Beautification Society and use the murder to take it down once and for all. She enlists Lou and her friends to help. And while Lou tags along mostly to keep Cricket safe, she quickly feels like she’s in too deep and worries if any of them will get out alive.
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A Poisoned Package
Coming January 2024!
After two murders on the premises, the manager of the Morrisey has cracked down on who has access to the building, buying the residents a few months of peace. But the increased security hasn’t made them immune to porch pirates. Packages are disappearing almost as soon as they’re delivered.
The joke is on the thief when one of the packages contains poisoned truffles, and they consume what was meant for someone else. Another body in the Morrisey puts a damper on the upcoming holiday season.
Learning she was the intended target of the chocolates, overly dramatic Winnie Wisteria is inconsolable and quick to point fingers. But as the threats escalate, secretive Winnie must let the other residents into her life if she wants to stay alive. Helping her figure out who wants her dead takes Meg and her ghostly pals into the spotlight of Seattle’s theater scene. But when everyone’s acting, who can Meg believe? And will she find the killer before it becomes someone’s final curtain call?
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A Staged Corpse
Coming early 2024!
A body is never good for a room’s Feng Shui …
The McKay’s divorce was as public as Sheriff Mark McKay’s defeat in the recent election. Which is why, when he’s found poisoned in the middle of one of his ex-wife’s staged houses, Courtney McKay becomes the prime suspect in the former sheriff’s murder.
But the people of Stoneybrook have come to think of the interior decorator as one of their own and they don’t believe she’s guilty for a second. It’ll take a refined eye to find the truth in this puzzling case.
Recipes included: Blackberry lime jam and bread and butter pickles
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