Lauren Elliot is Steeped in Secrets in her new Crystals & CuriosiTEAS series. After a divorce, Shay Meyers is back in her hometown of Bray Harbor on California’s Monterey Peninsula. Shay is an empath and she’s inherited a tea and psychic shop full of Irish lore, Celtic symbols, and a dead body on the greenhouse roof.
Richmond Telegraph crime and cops reporter Nichelle Clarke had one goal as the maid of honor for her fellow reporters Melanie and Grant Parker; deliver the perfect fairytale wedding. Those plans were to begin a week before the ceremony with a weekend getaway for the entire wedding party at the luxurious Calais Vineyards. The derailment begins even before the first dinner’s salad course, when the staff discovers a body stuffed inside a Calais wine barrel.
Cooler breezes, shorter days, and pumpkin spice everything naturally gets mystery readers thinking about Halloween—but nine bestselling cozy authors have had jack-o’-lanterns on the brain since spring when they cooked up the idea for a Halloween mystery anthology.
Showing up at a crime scene in full Flashdance costume would not have been reporter Nichelle Clarke's first preference, but when Richmond police spokesman Aaron White calls her to the site of a brutal possible serial killing, she's not about to hesitate. The only witnesses on hand are young vagrants who would sooner cut off their hands than speak to the police. Nichelle's ability to question them is the chance to find out not only who slaughtered the young woman but also provide the mutilated victim with an identity.
