NEW RELEASES
There are some people you just can’t forget.
The town of Buenaventura Beach is experiencing a season of contentment. School is out for summer. Couples are falling in love. Even the local library book club is reading a cozy crime story that doesn’t overly frighten any of the members.
But when Brie Thornberg-Selvidge shows up to said book club complaining about having a sleepless night, Avery Baldwin is concerned. A barking dog is to blame for Brie’s fatigue, so the ladies decide to do the most sensible thing—sit up that night, listen for the dog, then contact the animal’s owner.
Everything goes according to plan, right up to the point where the little dog and its owner glide through Brie’s backyard, sending a jolt of terror straight through Avery’s core.
Is that a ghost walking around Buenaventura Beach with a yapping doggy trotting by its side? Or is some prankster intentionally trying to ruin the quietude of the town?
In this full house, you can't trust anybody.
This story starts with an omen.
Avery Baldwin and Cubby Zabrowski, Chance’s eleven-year-old son, are on the beach, enjoying a lovely, leisurely afternoon, when out of nowhere, a shrimp boat glides onto the shore. The unusual circumstance is shocking, but Loti Baldwin sees the arrival of the ship as an ominous sign. A hurricane is coming for them. Hurriedly, the people of Buenaventura Beach evacuate and seek shelter at a rental property in Orlando owned by Savanna Hautett.
With twenty people staying in one house together for three days, just about anything can happen. Old grudges fester, tempers flare, and before long, there’s a murder.
Will Avery and Chance Zabrowski figure out who committed the crime in time to stop another one from occurring? Or is the hurricane howling outside the least of their worries?
This story features three alternate endings. The reader may choose their own conclusion or peruse them all.
You don't have to go home, but you can't stay on this island.
Wedding bells are ringing for Avery Baldwin and Chance Zabrowski. The pair, and all their nearest and dearest, leave Buenaventura Beach, hop aboard a luxury cruise ship, and sail to the Bahamas so they can say their sacred vows and finally become man and wife.
But trouble follows them to paradise. An uninvited guest joins the wedding party at the last minute. The wedding ceremony is moved to the end of the week. And the new vacation friends they meet, Ramona and Harold, suddenly disappear.
Will Avery and Chance solve this one last mystery together and finally get the happily ever after moment they deserve?
HISTORICAL FICTION
He’s guilty and they know it.
When Lydia Wickham is struck down in the middle of the day, everyone turns to her husband, George Wickham, for answers, but he has nothing to tell them. He has no idea what happened to his wife.
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The task of investigating the matter falls to Kitty, Lydia’s sister, and Mr. Andrew Selkirk, a neighbor who is recuperating from an injury sustained while working as a member of the Bow Street Horse Patrol. Is George Wickham as innocent as he claims? Or did he hurt his wife and hope to get away with it?
There’s only one question no gentleman has ever dared ask her before. Will he be the first?
Caroline Bingley has resigned herself to a life of spinsterhood. At the age of one and thirty, she is content to live with her brother and help him raise his family. She fell in love once, many years ago, but has long since given up the hope of finding a gentleman who is her match—a person who is her true equal in every way.
Jasper Soulden has always adapted easily to his environment. He is a jubilant, comedic playactor who loves the theatre, but must leave his work to better provide for his ailing mother and younger sisters. It is with a heavy heart that Jasper bids adieu to the stage and begins his life anew as Mr. Charles Bingley’s valet.
When Caroline and Jasper bump into each other, she is dazzled by his smile and charms, but quickly realizes he is a penny stinkard and worth no more of her time. But when he turns up at Harker House, the Bingley family’s London residence, she finds herself drawn in by his playful impishness.
Will Caroline allow her sense of propriety to falter so that she might learn to love and appreciate Jasper? And will he see through her air of disdain so he might be granted the privilege of getting to know the real Miss Caroline Bingley?
COZY CRIMES
When Mama Baldwin's Cafe closes unexpectedly and Mama herself disappears, Avery, Chance, & Cubby search for answers.
She never should've let Mama out of her sight.
There's been a murder at the Buenaventura Beach Golf Course. Avery, Chance, & Cubby need to act fast to figure out who is coming after the local businessmen.
One sip won't kill you.
The local beauty pageant is well under way when one of the contestants sustains an injury. It might have been an accident, but Avery, Chance, & Cubby don't think that's the whole story.
They're not out to get you, unless you're the one holding the crown.
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During the fall fest, a citizen of Buenaventura Beach is poisoned. When others point the finger at Avery and one of her friends, Chance & Cubby scramble to find the real culprit.
At the beach, the only things scarier than the sharks are the witches.
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MEET THE AUTHOR: MINDY KILLGROVE
Mindy Killgrove is a cozy mystery, historical fiction, and romance novelist. She is the creator of the Riley Roundtree Social Story Learning Adventure Series for children. Killgrove has penned more than fifty full-length novels, forty short stories, and dozens of children’s books. She lives in Orlando, Florida with her supportive husband and three rambunctious, but beautiful children. When she’s not writing or reading, she explores local theme parks, lounges on the beach, or aims to bake the very best chocolate chip cookies in the world.