Five cozy mystery series. Seventy books.
One perfect read waiting for you.
Five worlds. Five voices. Each one a doorway into a different small town with secrets to keep.
Retired English teacher. Small-town columnist. Bradley, NC's most reluctant octogenarian detective.
Research librarian Ann Beckett finds bodies almost as often as she finds books. Whitby, NC.
Type-A HOA president Sam Prescott. Mountains of North Carolina. Murder wasn't on her to-do list. It is now.
A quilting circle in Dappled Hills, NC that keeps stumbling into trouble — one stitch, one suspect at a time.
Food, family, and feuds in Memphis, Tennessee. Written as Riley Adams.
"The golden years just turned deadly."
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I write cozy mysteries set in small Southern towns — places where everyone knows everyone, the casseroles arrive before the police do, and the most determined sleuths usually have gray hair.
Five series, seventy books, and counting. Thank you for reading.
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