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When sharp-eyed dog walker Lila Hartwell discovers that Iris Vale’s death may be more than a tragic accident, the quiet village of Thistledown begins to reveal its secrets.
With her loyal Great Dane, Bramble, at her side, Lila follows a trail of small but telling clues: a nervous housekeeper, a disputed inheritance, a missing notebook, and a tidy antique shop hiding an untidy past. As old grudges surface and village loyalties fray, Lila must untangle a web of lies before a carefully staged murder is buried as misfortune.
Set in a charming English village filled with eccentric locals, simmering tensions, and plenty of tea, this cozy mystery delivers a satisfying blend of wit, atmosphere, and suspense. Perfect for fans of clever amateur sleuths, loyal animal companions, and twisty mysteries with heart, this is the first Thistledown mystery.
If you love village secrets, elegant clues, and a determined heroine with a very perceptive dog, you’ll adore this warm and wonderfully puzzling read.
By Clara Willow
When a glamorous cruise turns deadly, one sharp-eyed pet sitter and an aristocratic cat must untangle blackmail, deception, and murder before the killer disappears at the next port.
Marley Quinn expected luxury, light babysitting, and a paycheck when she boarded the Azure Belle to care for Sir Percival, the famously pampered cat of movie star Celeste Lavigne. Instead, a tense encounter in the ship’s solarium is followed by a woman’s sudden disappearance, a bracelet hidden in a locked cabin, and whispers of an overboard accident that don’t quite ring true.
As fog closes in around the elegant vessel, Marley finds herself drawn into a web of secrets among the passengers and crew: a polished ship official with too much to hide, a charming lecturer whose story keeps shifting, a celebrity guarding a dangerous past, and a missing woman who was blackmailing the wrong people. With only her instincts, a notebook, and Sir Percival’s uncanny nose for trouble, Marley must uncover what really happened before the Azure Belle reaches port—and the truth vanishes with it.
Perfect for fans of cozy mysteries with clever heroines, glamorous settings, quirky animal sidekicks, and twisty, page-turning suspense, this charming seaside whodunit delivers murder, mystery, and just the right touch of feline attitude.
By Gideon Harrow
A rising young singer is found dead in the harbour, and Santa Palma is ready with an easy answer.
Frankie Martino, a mechanic with a sharp eye for detail and a deeper understanding of people than he likes to admit, knows better than to trust a simple story. Johnny Vale was talented, reckless, charming, and widely disliked—the kind of man who left behind admirers, enemies, and unpaid debts in equal measure. When Frankie starts asking questions, he uncovers a tangle of stolen songs, hidden ledgers, gambling debts, private grudges, and a music scene built on ambition and lies.
Set in a sun-struck California coastal town humming with jukebox records, marina gossip, and post war noir atmosphere, this mystery follows Frankie through dance halls, back offices, used-car lots, and shadowed docks as he pieces together the truth behind Johnny’s final night. What begins as a suspicious drowning becomes something far more deliberate—and far more dangerous.
Moody, elegant, and rich with mid-century detail, this novel blends classic detective fiction with a vivid small-town setting and a cast of complicated, unforgettable characters. Perfect for readers who love atmospheric noir, slow-burning investigations, and mysteries where the secrets run as deep as the tide.
By Gideon Harrow
In the quiet town of Thornridge, history is something people celebrate—polished, packaged, and rarely questioned. But when local historian Julian Vale collapses during the annual Founders’ Day festival, reporter Cami Bell is drawn into a mystery that reaches far beyond a single shocking death.
What begins as a suspicious tragedy soon unravels into a web of altered archives, buried family claims, missing documents, and long-protected secrets. As Cami digs deeper, she discovers that Thornridge’s proud origin story may have been carefully rewritten—and that someone is willing to kill to keep the truth from resurfacing.
With the help of sharp-witted allies, reluctant insiders, and the descendants of those written out of the record, Cami must follow a trail of poisoned tonic, forged history, and hidden evidence before the next truth-teller is silenced.
Set against the charm of a small town with more than its share of old grudges, this cozy mystery blends atmospheric suspense, layered secrets, and a determined heroine who knows that the most dangerous lies are the ones a community agrees to keep.
Perfect for fans of cozy mysteries with smart heroines, small-town intrigue, historical secrets, and twisty investigations, this novel delivers a compelling blend of murder, memory, and the fight to set the record straight.
By Gideon Harrow
In the seaside town of Bellmarsh, history is never as harmless as it looks.
When Theodora Vale arrives expecting little more than salt air, old portraits, and the usual small-town eccentricities, she finds herself drawn into a mystery hidden beneath layers of civic pride, family silence, and carefully edited history. What begins with a restored painting soon opens onto something far darker: buried scandals, stolen artefacts, secret ledgers, and a murder that proves Bellmarsh’s past is not content to stay in the past.
As Theodora follows a trail through museum archives, harbour records, and long-forgotten committee papers, she discovers that Bellmarsh has spent generations protecting its reputation at any cost. With the help of sharp-witted librarian Mrs. Foss, steady constable Lena Vale, and the quietly compelling Rowan, Theodora must untangle a web of deception before another truth is lost—or another life is taken.
Rich with atmosphere, wit, and layered secrets, this cozy mystery blends village intrigue, historical scandal, and a deeply satisfying slow-burn unraveling of the past. Perfect for readers who love intelligent amateur sleuths, coastal settings, found-family dynamics, and mysteries where the dead still have plenty to say.
In Bellmarsh, every heirloom has a history. Not all of them are innocent.
By Clara Willow
When a hidden note turns up inside an old jar of honey, beekeeper Eloise Thorne is drawn into a mystery Honeycomb Hollow has kept buried for decades.
Life in the village should be simple: tending the hives, preparing for the summer fête, and ignoring the local historian’s talent for making every question sound like an accusation. But when Martin Vale asks Eloise to meet him about a long-lost church bell and a secret tied to Briar Chapel, she finds him dead before he can explain. Worse still, the evidence points straight toward her honey.
As rumour spreads through the village, Eloise must clear her name while untangling a web of old land records, family loyalties, and carefully guarded lies. With the help of practical lavender grower Tom Sayer, sharp-eyed veterinarian Noor Banerjee, and a village full of suspects who know far more than they admit, Eloise begins to uncover the truth: the missing bell was never the real secret.
Set in the charming village of Honeycomb Hollow, this cozy mystery is filled with eccentric villagers, simmering tensions, slow-burn romance, and the comforting rhythms of country life. Perfect for readers who love clever amateur sleuths, atmospheric small towns, and mysteries steeped in secrets, honey, and heart.
A delightful, twisty cozy mystery about what a village will do to protect its past—and what it costs to finally tell the truth.
By Rosalind Fenwick
In the picturesque village of Bellmarsh, secrets don’t stay buried—they’re hidden behind walls, tucked into ledgers, and whispered over tea.
When Eloise Vale takes charge of Marshlight, a struggling local gallery with more dust than visitors, she expects paperwork, difficult villagers, and perhaps the occasional dispute over framing. What she does not expect is the discovery of a concealed portrait, a long-buried artistic scandal, and a death that turns old gossip into present danger.
As Eloise begins to uncover the forgotten story of Mara Ellory—a gifted woman artist whose name was erased from village history—she finds herself drawn into a web of deception stretching across decades. With the help of sharp-tongued framer Nina, weary but dependable Tom, and a cast of villagers who know far more than they admit, Eloise must untangle lies preserved by wealth, respectability, and habit.
But Bellmarsh is a place where appearances matter, and where truth has a way of inconveniencing everyone.
Warm, witty, and rich with atmosphere, this cozy mystery blends murder, art, village intrigue, and buried history into a story about what is lost, what is hidden, and what it takes to set the record straight. Perfect for readers who love clever heroines, English village settings, layered secrets, and mysteries with heart.
By Clara Willow
A hidden letter. A vanished woman. A city built on beautiful lies.
In the heart of Charleston, antique restorer Eloise Pruitt is used to uncovering the past one careful repair at a time. But when she begins restoring a Victorian writing desk from the influential Dane family estate, she discovers more than age-worn wood and forgotten compartments. Tucked inside is a letter connected to Clara Bell Waverly, a young woman who disappeared more than thirty years ago—and was quietly remembered as a runaway, a scandal, and then almost not at all.
As Eloise follows a trail of concealed notes, altered records, and dangerous family secrets, she finds herself pulled into a mystery the city has spent decades trying to bury. With the help of detective Beau Hollis, she uncovers a web of inheritance fraud, reputation, and silence that reaches into Charleston’s most respected circles.
But the deeper Eloise digs, the clearer it becomes that Clara did not simply vanish—and someone once worked very hard to make sure the truth stayed hidden.
Rich with atmosphere, layered suspense, and Southern intrigue, this mystery blends restoration, family secrets, and a haunting search for justice. Perfect for readers who love elegant historical settings, intelligent heroines, and slow-burning investigations with emotional depth.
By Clara Willow
Step into the charming town of Maple Cross, where old books, buried secrets, and a suspicious death refuse to stay neatly shelved.
Willa Finch, owner of the beloved independent bookshop Bramble & Vine, never expected a misfiled manuscript to pull her into a murder investigation. But when she discovers a handwritten novella hidden among forgotten donations—complete with a chilling dedication hinting at a fatal fall—Willa begins to suspect that the recent death of prominent local benefactor Edgar Bell was no accident.
As whispers spread through the town, Willa follows a trail of forged histories, altered archives, and carefully managed reputations. With the help of her sharp-tongued assistant Fern and the thoughtful librarian Arun, she uncovers a web of ambition, vanity, and deception centred around Maple Cross’s historical society. The deeper she reads, the clearer it becomes: someone was willing to rewrite the past to control the future—and to silence anyone who stood in the way.
Perfect for readers who love atmospheric village mysteries, intelligent amateur sleuths, and bookish intrigue, this cozy mystery blends literary charm with dark secrets, memorable characters, and a twisty investigation.
In Maple Cross, every story has its place.
But some have been shelved to hide the truth.
If you enjoy cozy mysteries with bookstores, small-town secrets, archival puzzles, and richly drawn suspects, this suspenseful and elegant whodunit is for you.
By Clara Willow
A wedding. A collapsed groom. A shimmer that wouldn’t let go.
When Brett Hargrove hits the ground at his own ceremony in the small town of Clover Hollow, everyone calls it heat and too much bourbon. Veterinary technician Ivy McCord isn’t so sure. She knows what a sedated animal looks like. She knows the difference between a man who drank too much and a man who was given something he didn’t choose.
With her three-legged border collie Fig at her side and a green spiral notepad filling up fast, Ivy begins to pull at the one loose thread she can’t leave alone — quietly, carefully, the way you approach an anxious animal. What she finds underneath is not a moment of impulse but a plan years in the making, built on family land, buried water rights, and a woman who had decided that love was a liability she couldn’t afford to let transfer on paper.
Something in the Straw is a cozy mystery for readers who like their small towns warm and their secrets cold — a story about what people protect, what they’re willing to become to protect it, and what it means to find, in the most unexpected place, something worth calling home.
By Clara Willow
When Hazel Quinn trades her high-powered legal career for a chocolate shop in the quiet New England village of Maplecroft, she expects her biggest challenge to be perfecting her ganache ratios. She doesn’t expect a celebrated literary critic to collapse on her herringbone floor on the opening night of her first tasting event.
Desmond Fray was difficult, brilliant, and apparently not without enemies. With her shop sealed as a crime scene and her reputation hanging in the balance, Hazel does what any former corporate lawyer instinctively does: she starts building a case.
What she uncovers reaches back decades — a destroyed restaurant, a buried review, a manuscript that someone was desperate to silence — and points toward a killer hiding in plain sight behind a carefully constructed alibi and an even more carefully constructed grief.
With her methodical mind, her chocolatier’s attention to detail, and the reluctant help of a straight-talking local baker, a sharp young journalist, and a sheriff who is simultaneously exasperated and impressed, Hazel must untangle a web of professional betrayal and long-held secrets before the wrong person takes the blame.
A Bittersweet Death is a warm, witty, and precisely plotted cozy mystery for readers who like their chocolate dark, their villages atmospheric, and their heroines formidably intelligent.
By Clara Willow
When retired schoolteacher Beatrice Plum discovers an old diary hidden in her garden wall, a long-buried village tragedy begins to look dangerously like murder. The diary belonged to Edith Faircombe, a young bookkeeper at Little Mallow’s once-thriving button factory, who died in a fall that everyone agreed was a terrible accident.
But Edith’s notes tell a different story—of altered records, quiet fear, and someone who did not want the truth uncovered.
As Beatrice follows the trail through crumbling factory ruins, old family secrets, and the polished silences of village life, she finds that Little Mallow has preserved its past less carefully than it pretends. And in a place where respectability matters more than honesty, reopening old wounds may be the most dangerous thing of all.
Murder in the Button Garden is a charming and sharply observed cozy mystery full of wit, atmosphere, and long-hidden lies.
By Clara Willow
When a quiet village binds its secrets into old leather and paper, one bookbinder may be the only person patient enough to uncover the truth.
In the fog-draped village of Merewick, Evelyn Tilling lives a careful life restoring damaged books in her small bindery. But when a worn Blackmere family folio arrives on her workbench, she discovers signs that something has been hidden inside its binding for generations.
Before Evelyn can make sense of the mystery, local historian Ambrose Vale dies suddenly during a public lecture—just moments after hinting that a respected noble family built its legacy on a lie. As suspicion ripples through the village, Evelyn finds herself drawn into a web of old accusations, secret letters, poisoned sweets, concealed deeds, and a crime buried for more than a century.
With only her sharp eye, her stubborn resolve, and the steady help of Constable Edwin Harrow, Evelyn must trace a trail of clues through manor libraries, parish records, crypt walls, and village gossip before another witness is silenced.
Perfect for readers who love atmospheric historical mysteries, village secrets, clever amateur sleuths, and slow-burn romance, this suspenseful novel blends bookish intrigue with murder, memory, and the long shadow of buried injustice.
A beautifully layered mystery about what is hidden, what is preserved, and what refuses to stay buried.
By Clara Willow
Welcome to Maple Glade, where the cupcakes are exquisite, the gossip is plentiful, and old secrets refuse to stay buried.
When Clarissa returns to her late aunt’s beloved bakery, Sweet Marigold, she expects flour-dusted memories, small-town charm, and the challenge of keeping the business alive. What she doesn’t expect is a mysterious note hidden inside an old rolling pin—or a sudden death at the bakery’s grand reopening.
As whispers spread through Maple Glade, Clarissa finds herself drawn into a decades-old mystery surrounding a vanished young woman, a powerful local family, and the quiet lies that shaped the town for generations. With the help of a sharp-eyed deputy, a guarded pastry chef, and a handful of unlikely allies, Clarissa begins to uncover a trail of hidden letters, buried records, and dangerous truths.
But in Maple Glade, everyone knows everyone—or thinks they do. And the closer Clarissa gets to the truth, the more she realizes that some secrets were protected at any cost.
The Rolling Pin Secret is a cozy mystery filled with charming small-town atmosphere, layered family secrets, memorable characters, and delicious baked treats. Perfect for readers who love amateur sleuths, village intrigue, and mysteries with heart.
If you enjoy cozy whodunits, hidden pasts, and irresistible bakery settings, The Rolling Pin Secret is the perfect first visit to Maple Glade.
By Clara Willow
At Fern Hollow, women come to rest, recover, and begin again.
Nestled in an Oregon valley, Fern Bellweather’s quiet herbal retreat offers sanctuary to the weary. But when celebrated speaker Ezra Vale dies suddenly after taking tea in Fern’s parlour, peace shatters overnight. What first appears to be a tragic collapse soon reveals darker roots: poison, hidden letters, old grievances, and a carefully staged web of suspicion.
As a storm closes in around the retreat, Fern must untangle a dangerous knot of secrets among her guests—each with reason to resent the dead man, and each concealing wounds of their own. With gossip spreading, trust fraying, and her life’s work under threat, Fern is forced to look beyond the obvious culprit and confront a more unsettling truth: sometimes harm arrives not from strangers, but from the quietest hands in the room.
Warm, atmospheric, and rich with emotional depth, this cozy mystery blends small-town tension, herbal lore, and a deeply satisfying whodunit. Perfect for readers who love layered characters, intimate settings, and mysteries where healing and justice are equally hard-won.
If you enjoy gentle suspense, sharp observation, and a retreat full of secrets, Fern Hollow will draw you in from the first cup of tea to the final page.
By Rosalind Fenwick
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