K. J Emrick
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A New Marriage... A Desperate Granddaughter... And An Old Mystery...When a man caught breaking and entering claims to have new information in a decades old mystery, Cookie can't help but get involved.The new information seems to indicate that one of the town's residents was involved all those years ago and Cookie is having a difficult time believing it.If that isn't enough to deal with Cookie's granddaughter, Clarissa, arrives unexpectedly on her...
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A belated Honeymoon... New friends... and another Murder!Cookie and Jerry, along with Cream, are motor-homing their way around the country for their honeymoon. Along the way, they've made a lot of new friends. The trip is going great as they spend endless hours alone together seeing the sights, away from the worries of Widow's Rest.But the fun ends when one of those new friends is found dead and they find themselves in the middle of another murder...
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Darcy Sweet would like to think that she is just an ordinary woman, happy in her life running the Sweet Read bookstore. But she isn't ordinary. She has a connection to the other side that seems to draw her into mysterious situations more often than not. Add to the mix the antics of a rather naughty, slightly psychic cat and the eccentric ghost of her great-aunt Millie, and you have a recipe for anything but the ordinary. When Darcy's neighbor is murdered...
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"Dell! You have to come back to the Inn, right now!"They're not the kind of words you want to hear when you answer your phone. Dell Powers knew that it was never a good sign when her friend and business partner, Rosie, was in such a panicked state about something.Dell's first reaction was to wonder what had blown up this time. With Rosie you just never knew. It could be the stove had caught fire again or any number of things that seem to happen spontaneously...
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A Murder at the Retirement Home... A Missing Woman... And Missing Money!Cookie can't believe it when Jerry tells her that her friend Sheila Tucker is dead. Everybody loved Sheila and she didn't have an enemy in the world... or so Cookie thought.Sheila must have had at least one. So who could have hated her enough to throw her from the balcony of her room at the retirement home where she lived? If murder wasn't bad enough... Sheila's daughter is also...
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The Theft of a Valuable Chalice... Another Mystery... And a Baby (or Two)!!!Legend tells the story of the priceless Van Diemen's Land Chalice. Believed to be hundreds of years old the myth says that whoever holds it has possession of Tasmania!When a local celebrity claims the Chalice has been stolen from his property, Dell Powers gets drawn into the mystery.Was the Chalice really stolen and is it even real? Or is this just an elaborate publicity stunt?If...
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Mystery, murder, and a penguin... it's just an ordinary day in the life of Dell Powers!Dell loves summertime in Tasmania. With it's heat and insects and the tourists... especially the tourists... she wouldn't have it any other way. But when a prominent politician is murdered right inside his room the Pine Lake Inn is about to be thrust into the limelight once again. And not in a good way. Who would want to kill the man? And why? With just two possible...
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An exploding kitchen... A theft... Another mystery to solve! When Dell Powers is ripped out of an interesting dream by the room shaking around her she is confused, dazed and in fight-or-flight mode. What on earth was that? A soufflé apparently. How on earth can a soufflé cause an explosion? Rosie Ryan holds the answer. Discovering a massive hole in the kitchen wall Dell resigns herself to the fact that there's another insurance claim in her immediate...
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A wedding on a cruise ship! What could be better than that?Karen 'Cookie' Williams thought not too much. She was having the most wonderful romantic time until someone close to her was found murdered on board.With no real security team and endless miles of ocean between them and the nearest shore Cookie once again found herself in the middle of a murder mystery.Things become dire when another of her loved ones disappears and her own life is threatened....
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A wedding... A murder... A missing bride... In a small town like Pine Lake, weddings are always big news so it's not surprising that the Pine Lake Inn is all abuzz with the impending nuptials. A wedding is supposed to be a wonderful, joyous occasion but when the bride-to-be goes missing just two days before the ceremony there is a race against the clock to find her. It soon becomes clear that this isn't just a case of cold feet when the ghost of a...
11) Bottled Up
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A weekend getaway to a beautiful beachside town with an old friend should have been a relaxing change of pace for Dell Powers.But then, when is her life ever relaxing?While walking on the beach Dell discovers a quite unique, antique bottle complete with a note inside. Thinking it would make a great addition to her Inn, she digs it out of the sand.Her weekend takes a turn for the dangerous shortly after, so Dell packs up and heads home early, where...
12) Death in Room 7
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From the author of the Darcy Sweet Cozy Mystery Series! Adelle Powers, or Dell as she is known around the town of Lakeshore, is living her dream life. She and her best friend Rosie Ryan are owners of the wonderfully quirky Pine Lake Inn, a very popular Australian tourist destination. Running her own inn is the only thing she has ever wanted to do and it is her pride and joy. So when Dell's friend Jessica calls to say she's coming for a visit Dell...
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Cookie's life should be problem free as she cooked for the Widow's Rest Centennial and planned her wedding to Jerry. There was this little flutter that she got in her belly every time she remembered how close her wedding actually was. Just two months away.But once again things don't go according to plan.A prophetic dream. A concealed door. Another murder in Cookie's bakery.Why did these things keep happening?
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Cookie could feel it in her bones... there's another mystery starting in Widow's Rest...Retirement had seemed like such a great idea but wasn't all it's cracked up to be. And Cookie is beginning to feel downright bored! Nothing ever happens on Peachtree street - where she and Jerry now live - at least, until Cookie sees a mysterious black car leaving the seemingly abandoned house across the road.She is certain that house is empty so, what's that all...
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An Unexpected Request... A Dead Tourist... Another Mystery in Lakeshore!When the brother of a guest staying at the Pine Lake Inn is found dead from a fall off Hartz Peak, the shadow of death returns to Lakeshore once again.It seems like a straightforward accident but is there more to this death than meets the eye? Could it be Murder?And... if that isn't enough to deal with, the reclusive Mister Brewster makes an unexpected request of Dell Powers....
16) A Season to Kill
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"There's a strange man in the living room, Miranda!" Until her resident ghost, Kyle Hunter, woke her with those words, Miranda Wylder had been enjoying several months of peace. An unexpected, middle of the night visitor, complete with ghost attached, changes all that. Events start happening around her that seem like coincidence but can't possibly be because as Miranda always says, nothing is coincidence. Who is this intruder and who is the ghost?...
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Valeria Cosoi was always on the hunt for bargains to offer in her shop. So, while rummaging through items at an antique store closing sale she spotted a box of rings and grabbed a couple of nice ones that she thinks will sell well. Little did she know that one of the rings came with a little something extra attached. A ghost! Valeria discovers that this ghost was a victim of murder and once again, her help is needed to find out what really happened...
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Past trauma meets the present... When someone from Valeria Cosoi's past sends her a package in the mail, she is tempted to just send it right back. But when she sees the very personal contents inside, her world is tipped upside down, as she realizes what she has believed about the past isn't really true. Valeria reluctantly sets out to uncover the truth, only to quickly meet resistance. A threat is made, one that has been carried out before... Can...
19) Second Guessing
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As far as private eye's go, there aren't many in the business better than Sidney Stone. Hardened by the Marines, street-wise and honestly caring, Sidney's making a name for herself in certain circles. It's not just that she can see the future coming her way before it happens, it's her instincts. Her guts. Her way of being able to intuit human nature itself. Having a best friend who is a wish-granting-genie doesn't hurt, either. One thing she knows...
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It's Halloween in Verdant Falls and Evangeline Moon is reporting... This time, it's a puzzling art theft that has her attention.When a masterpiece depicting Ichabod Crane's harrowing escape from the Headless Horseman is stolen from the local art museum, Evangeline's curiosity is piqued. As she begins her investigation, a surprising twist emerges: buried secrets intertwine with the stolen artwork. As the tension mounts, Evangeline finds herself accompanied...