Author: katherinehayton
Marjorie Hardaway has enough worries on her plate with a property developer intent on building out her view and installing direction competition to her business. But when gifted a new calico for her kitten café, she’s alarmed to find out the latest arrival bore witness to her previous owner’s murder! After the police investigation points an accusing finger at a friend, Marjorie feels compelled to … compelled to help. Especially as the sergeant in charge is overlooking a chief suspect—the same rogue land developer who’s the bane of her existence. Soon she has break-ins, upset kittens, and an eligible bachelor…
A delectable cozy that’s first in a series: Recently divorced Holly Waterston returns to her hometown in rural New Zealand… and soon finds herself striving to both save her family’s cupcake bakery and prove her sister is innocent of murder!
The compelling first installment in a procedural mystery series set in New Zealand! Forty years after a teen girl’s murder, Maori detective Ngaire Blakes investigates the would-be killer’s sudden and suspicious confession.
Rena Sutherland wakes from a coma to a mother’s nightmare: Her four-year-old daughter is missing, and no one has realized she’s gone. “Taut and engrossing, with a tough humanity” (Kirkus Reviews).