A murdered dancer. An attractive policeman. A tangled mystery.
Newly settled in a quaint small town in the English Fens, Rory Cornwell knows no-one and is too shy to go out and make friends. When a local festival is marred by the murder of a morris dancer, his pretty house-mate Haley is distraught–her uncle is the prime suspect.
Nervously investigating, and smitten by Zach, the attractive policeman on the case, will Rory uncover the true culprit before the wrong person is jailed? And can he untangle the knot of fake dating and misunderstandings between himself and Haley before dreamboat Zach gets away?
A murdered specter. An unwanted suitor. Malice at the Museum.
Halloween approaches and in the ancient capital of the Fens, Haley Thorpe is working as a costumed actor on a ghost tour. When one of the other ‘ghosts’ is murdered by a cunning device, suspicion falls on Haley—the only one unobserved at the scene.
If that wasn’t enough, Sean, the guy her parents think she should marry, is turning into a regular stalker. She doesn’t want to date him. She’s not sure she wants to date anyone at all, but does she have a choice?
Can she and Rory—her posh house-mate—figure out the real murderer before she gets arrested? And can someone tell Sean that he’s not all that before he starts breaking down the door?
When a new disability ruins Emily’s life and family turn her out, she finds herself forced into a nomadic life on a narrowboat. With very little money and even less physical stamina, she doesn’t know if she has it in her to forge a whole new future on her own.
In the idyllic surroundings of the British waterways, as she moves from place to place she encounters a series of small mysteries. Can she solve them and find a new purpose for herself in the process? Or must a missing person remain lost and the case of the body in the lock remain unsolved?
Half cozy mystery and half fond ode to the narrowboat life, ‘The Boat of Small Mysteries,’ is a charming tale of resilience and intuition, sure to appeal to anyone who enjoys BBC Four’s Canal Boat Diaries, or the gentle adventures of Alexander McCall Smith’s The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency books.
| The Dancing Detective series are cozy mysteries that will appeal to fans of Ellery Adams’ Books by the Bay and Agatha Frost’s Fruitcake and Fear series. Readers who enjoy small town mysteries set in England will love this glimpse at the stranger side of village life, where vengeful spirits run riot amidst the festival bake offs and bunting. Read the first chapter of Murder of a Straw Man here | Coming very soon: The Boat of Small Mysteries A cosy narrowboat experience set on the British canal network, in which a lost sweetheart must be found, and a boat load of tourists repeatedly rescued | Sign up for my newsletter and recieve my next novel for free Sign Up Here |