Author: daisyrobyns

It’s time for hand letterer Jamie Lang to pay up on her bet from last fall to handsome, wealthy Kit Perry and finally go out to dinner with him. As Kit takes her to the pre-opening of a new high-end Nordic restaurant in downtown Seattle snow begins falling. Never a good thing in Seattle. The evening begins on a lovely note. The setting is romantic. The food is delicious. Everything is … perfect—until a fellow dinner guest apparently chokes to death a few tables away. And it looks like murder. Now Jamie, Kit, and the rest of the diners and…

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Fall in Cedar Valley is hand letterer Jamie Lang’s favorite time of year—the fall farmers’ market, the glass pumpkin show, and the annual Zombie 5K Fun Run, zombie costume contest, and zombie dummy competition. This year Jamie and her friends are determined to win the competition for best zombie dummy. Their stuffed zombie bride looks like she has a good shot at winning, too. Until someone swaps … swaps the dummy for a real dead body. Jamie would rather leave solving the murder to her handsome friend and chief of police, Ridge Calhoun. But Ridge is short staffed and people…

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Kit Perry is a rich, handsome rogue with a scandalous past. He’s also Cedar Valley’s newest businessman. But is he their newest murderer? When hand lettering amateur sleuth Jamie Lang stumbles upon Kit with a beautiful woman dying in his arms he sure looks like it. Almost everyone in town is convinced Kit is guilty—of being a devastating charmer and murdering his half sister, Steph. But Steph has … Steph. But Steph has almost as many enemies as the entire population of Cedar Valley, and a million little reasons for any of them to want her dead. Kit proclaims his…

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Ralph Coggins has been one of Jamie Lang’s mentors and friends for years. A world-renowned master penman and calligrapher to queens and presidents, his script is perfection. So perfect that someone wants him out of the way. When Jamie stops by Ralph’s house to deliver the 24K gold fountain pen nib he ordered, she finds him slumped over his drafting table, freshly dead. It takes her good friend … with the bedroom eyes, Ridge Calhoun, Cedar Valley’s chief of police and hottest bachelor, to determine what killed Ralph. And the cause of death is almost unbelievable. Now the question is—who…

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When someone destroys one of Jamie Lang’s hand-lettered window displays, she publicly blames her nemesis, stationary shop owner Earleen Culp — so all eyes are on Jamie when Earleen turns up dead! Can Jamie find the real killer and clear her name?

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Local hand lettering artist Jamie Lang is an unlikely amateur sleuth. When a friend, desperate to save an inheritance, asks for her help, she must put her hand lettering skills and powers of deduction to work in the charming small town of Cedar Valley, WA. If you enjoy cozy mysteries with something new, or if you’re a fan of hand lettering, pen and ink art, graphic design, watercoloring, … watercoloring, typography, calligraphy, and creative inspiration, this series is for you! Indulge your inner artist and sleuth. Welcome to Cedar Valley, a thriving tourist town and popular wedding venue. Once you…

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