A rare-book dealer dead in the reading chair. A shop bell that rings when it shouldn’t. And a cat sitting on the evidence.
Retired English teacher Felice Mendes can spot a weak alibi before it finishes forming. So when Howard Pell turns up dead in her bookshop and the deputy arrests the wrong woman, Felice uncaps her dry-erase markers.
THREE CAT CAFÉ MYSTERIES FILLED WITH CLEVER CLUES, SOUTHERN CHARM, AND ONE VERY OBSERVANT BRITISH SHORTHAIR.
Running a cat café in Savannah means serving coffee, managing opinionated felines, and hearing plenty of gossip. For Emma Clark, it also means finding trouble—and murder—far too close to home.
Tuesdays in Cartwell, Virginia, are usually slow—until a box of antique botanical books arrives at Forget Me Not Books. Sent without explanation by the town’s resident curmudgeon, Aldous Greer, the delivery is strange. When Aldous is found dead two days later with a cup of chamomile tea he famously despised sitting on his desk, the strange...
Bookstore owner and former English teacher Felice Mendes expects nothing more mysterious than family drama when she arrives at historic Briar Hill Estate for the wedding of the season. But before the bride can walk down the aisle, the groom is found dead—and suspicion quickly falls on the wrong man.
Sometimes the truth is hidden in plain sight—and sometimes it’s curled up at your feet.
Running Purrs & Puzzles Cat Café in Savannah’s historic district means Emma Clark hears plenty of gossip. But when wealthy developer Garrison Faulk is found dead behind a nearby building, gossip quickly turns into suspicion.
A hidden box. A long-buried secret. And a warning that won’t stay quiet.
When Emma Clark discovers a sealed tin box hidden inside the walls of her cat café, she expects a piece of history—not a mystery someone is still trying to keep buried.
Inside are fragments of a story: a missing young woman, a series of carefully hidden records, and a truth...
Three mysteries. One clever cat café. And trouble brewing in Savannah.
When Emma Clark inherited her aunt’s quirky Savannah coffee shop and turned it into the beloved Purrs & Puzzles Cat Café, she expected lattes, cat cuddles, and the occasional hairball. What she didn’t expect was murder.
But in Savannah, secrets have a way of clawing their...
Welcome to Hazelwood, Wisconsin—a charming small town where festivals flourish, secrets simmer, and murder has an unfortunate habit of crashing the party.
This six-book boxed set includes full-length cozy mysteries from the Hazelwood High Jinx series, beginning with Book 3. Follow an ensemble of...
Running my cat café in Savannah meant juggling espresso machines, opinionated felines, and regulars who felt more like family than customers. Hosting the Savannah Storytelling Festival should have been a celebration of books, stories, and community.
Instead, it ended in murder.
When a bestselling author collapses during a public reading at my...
When celebrated chef Marcel DuPont collapses face-first into his own signature dessert, Hazelwood whispers tragic accident. Lucy Jenks smells murder—right between the cardamom and the crushed egos.
Armed with her sharp instincts, her loyal dog Duke, a loving husband and a town full of secrets, Lucy uncovers a legacy of stolen recipes, bruised...
When a fortune-teller dies mid–tea reading in her Savannah parlor, cat-café owner Emma Clark discovers she’s inherited more than the woman’s favorite scone order. Hidden inside a velvet envelope is part of an antique map—and a warning written in elegant, desperate ink: The cat knows. Trust him.
Now the quiet charm of Purrs & Puzzles Cat Café...
When Hazelwood’s cherished Founders’ Bell vanishes during the town’s biggest festival, Detective Jack Carter is left chasing more than just a thief. Old rivalries flare, family secrets stir, and whispers of hidden documents threaten to rewrite Hazelwood’s past—and its future.
Grace, Lily, and Polly the parrot are never far behind, and neither...
When Emma Clark agrees to host Savannah’s most exclusive post-wedding event at her beloved cat café, Purrs & Puzzles, she expects scones and selfies—not sirens and scandal. But when the groom collapses mid-toast, Emma finds herself serving up suspects instead of coffee.
With the health inspector sniffing around, a furious mother-of-the-bride...
In the heart of Hazelwood, a slice of pie turns deadly—and the truth is buried beneath the crust.
Grace Hawthorne thought her biggest challenge would be nailing the perfect lattice on her signature Peach Vanilla Dream Pie. But when her pie is swapped for a deadly one at the town festival, a local judge winds up poisoned to death. Grace is thrust...
When Emma Clark agreed to take over her eccentric aunt’s Savannah coffee shop and transformed it into a Cat Café, she didn’t expect the real estate to come with a side of conspiracy. But when a vintage notebook, a booby-trapped USB, and a cassette labeled “Play if they find me” show up in a hidden panel...
Murder’s brewing at Purrs & Puzzles Cat Café—and Purrlock Holmes is on the prowl.
Emma Clark traded corporate burnout for sweet tea and cat cuddles, transforming her Great Aunt Josephine’s coffee shop into a cozy Savannah haven. But when socialite Meredith Halloway is found bludgeoned on the café floor, a candlestick nearby, Emma’s dream...
A stolen heirloom. A missing girl. A town with secrets that refuse to stay buried.
When a priceless music box vanishes from the Hazelwood High trophy case, innkeeper Grace Hawthorne is drawn into a mystery that quickly becomes more than just a case of petty theft.
The music box—a royal gift from Princess Elise of Spain in 1942—has been the town’...
Emma Carter’s cozy cat café, Purrs & Puzzles, is the heart of historic Savannah, Georgia--until a litter of rare Bengal kittens disappears during a glittering fundraiser.
Suddenly, Emma’s dream business turns into a nightmare when the police name her as the prime suspect.
With her best friend Lizzie, a conspiracy theorist blogger and loving...
