Author: judymoore

Beck O’Rourke and her grandmother own Beach Reads bookstore and coffee shop, a gathering place for locals and tourists, a block off the ocean in Manatee Beach, Florida. They live above the bookstore with Beck’s feisty younger sister, Lizzie, a lifeguard. Beck is excited to host the country’s bestselling cozy mystery writer for a book signing event until a member of the audience turns up dead … up dead later that night. Afterward, Beck decides to pursue her lifelong dream of being a detective to try to catch the killer. The amateur sleuth finds a slew of suspects, but the…

Dawn Andersen and her parents are horrified when her carefree Aunt Amy is found stabbed to death on the beach, the second woman to be murdered in the small oceanside town of Manatee Beach. The police have arrested a homeless man for the murders, but is he the real killer? Dawn, 25, makes the biggest decision of her life when she decides to leave her routine existence in Ohio to move into her … aunt’s cottage a block from the ocean in South Florida.From the first night that Dawn arrives in Florida, the feeling of uneasiness never leaves her. There’s…

After a whirlwind romance, a young woman from California makes a rash decision and marries a handsome Floridian after knowing him for only one month. She gives up everything she knows to move cross countrv to live with her new husband, a widower, and his five-year-old son. Everything seems idyllic until they arrive at her husband’s oceanfront home, and she meets her mother-in-law. There’s … There’s something strange about the woman and the mother/son relationship. It’s not long before her suspicions begin to overwhelm her as she becomes ensnared in the secrets and lies of her new family. more