Author: jceaton
All of Arizona’s Sun City West heard Sophie “Phee” Kimball’s mom scream bloody murder, but it’s up to the reluctant sleuth to find the killer . . . Phee’s mother Harriet is going to be a star! At least, that’s how the Sun City West retiree describes her chance to host a live radio program of her book club’s Booked 4 Murder Mystery Hour on Arizona’s KSCW. But instead of chatting about charming … cozies, Harriet ends up screaming bloody murder over the airwaves after discovering the body of Howard Buell, the station’s programming director, in a closet—with a pair…
Norrie Ellington is a sucker for doing good deeds, but when she agrees to let a film crew use her winery as a backdrop and one of them turns up dead, she’ll have to act fast because this crew knows how to put on an act . . . When screenwriter and winery co-owner Norrie Ellington agrees to let her producer film a movie scene at Two Witches Winery, her biggest concerns revolve around the crew … trampling her precious vines and starstruck fans crowding the vineyard to spot the famous actors. But nothing had prepared her for the film’s…
A perfect cozy for dog lovers: After her mother’s pooch discovers a corpse, amateur sleuth Sophie suspects someone is targeting pet owners who’ve entered a holiday dog costume contest. Can she figure out whodunit before her mom is in the killer’s sights?
Vintner Norrie is busy hosting the Chocolate and Wine Extravaganza when bitter competition sours the festivities — and leaves one of the contestants dead. Even worse, the victim was last seen sipping one of Norrie’s wines… Can she sniff out the killer and save her business?
Bookkeeper Phee Kimball works for a big-city private eye — but when a body turns up in her mother’s retirement community, she takes the case herself! Could Phee’s mother be the killer’s next target? This “zany” cozy mystery is filled with “sparkling characters” (Kirkus Reviews).
Seneca Lake vineyards are gearing up for holiday festivities when a pinot noir saboteur strikes — and a wine distributor is found dead. Searching for the link between the two, winery owner Norrie Ellington unearths a conspiracy amid the locals… A laugh-out-loud cozy mystery!
Bowled over . . . Sophie “Phee” Kimball is getting dragged into the drama again at her mom’s Arizona retirement community. A new board member wants to get rid of two golf courses and replace them with eco-friendly parks, and some of the residents are pretty teed off about it. On top of that, her mother’s book club friend Myrna is being pushed out of the bocce league. These seniors are serious … These seniors are serious about winning, and Myrna’s dragging them down. She’s so bad at bocce, in fact, that when a community mem.ber’s dead body is…
Finding a murderer requires 100% proof. In Seneca Lake, New York, Norrie Ellington’s Two Witches Winery has been selected by the local vintner community to host the annual Federweisser, a celebration of the season’s first fermentation of white Chardonnay grapes. But the festivities are spoiled when Norrie learns that landowner Roy Wilkes has raised her neighbor Rosalee Marbleton’s rent so high, … Rosalee Marbleton’s rent so high, she may have to close her vineyard. Before the rent hike could go into effect, Wilkes is found dead on Roslaee’s property—stabbed by a flowerpot stake—and she becomes the police’s number…
A clever whodunit: Phee Kimball has no time for the theater — even with her mom acting in a local production of Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap. But when a cast member turns up murdered, she might be the only one who can solve the mystery!
Norrie Ellington thinks she’s ready to manage her family’s winery for a year… until a fresh corpse turns up on the property! Now, Norrie must unravel the truth behind a bed-and-breakfast owner’s death in this charming mystery.