by admin | Oct 31, 2025 | Mystery |
In What Child Is This?, “Boatwright conjures up the warmth of the snowy, candlelit holiday.” — Publishers Weekly
“Not only is Alice Boatwright a good detective writer, but a first-class storyteller as well. A great find.” — M.C. Beaton, author of the Agatha Raisin mysteries
Ellie Kent imagined that spending Christmas in the Cotswolds would be like living in an Advent calendar. But the pleasures of mummers and mince pies, caroling and candlelight are interrupted when a distraught couple asks for her help. Their 20-year-old daughter has been missing for more than two months, and the police search has gone cold. Ellie remembers being a runaway herself and knows she can’t refuse. As she learns more about the missing Oxford student, she finds a trail that seems to connect an abandoned baby, a drama club, and a group of girls who identify with Shakespeare’s tragic Ophelia. Does that mean there is a Hamlet involved . . . and is he a killer?
by admin | Oct 31, 2025 | Mystery |
It’s Hop-tu-Naa time on the Isle of Man and Fenella Woods is excited to learn more about this uniquely Manx celebration.
When a day of fun at Cregneash village ends with Fenella finding a dead body, though, she finds herself tangled up in another murder investigation.?
When the inspector in charge of the case calls on Daniel Robinson to help with the investigation, Fenella finds an uncomfortable distance has grown between herself and handsome Inspector Robinson. The distance is only reinforced by the ubiquitous presence of Tiffany Perkins, a pretty young police inspector who’d been on the same course as Daniel.
?No one seems to have had a motive for killing young Phillip Pierce. He’d only been on the island for a short while. He was newly married and his beautiful widow seems suitably devastated.
?Can Fenella work out why the man was killed? Will Daniel seek her help with this investigation or is he determined to keep her at arm’s length? And if he is keeping his distance, is Tiffany the reason or is there something else going on?
by admin | Oct 31, 2025 | Crime Fiction |
STAND-ALONE MURDER MYSTERY, #15 IN THE SERIES. MEET MAVERICK BRITISH DETECTIVE DI SKELGILL… “MAD, BAD AND JUST A LITTLE BIT COZY.”
VIRILE; HANDSOME; RUTHLESS. When gamekeeper Lawrence Melling takes over at traditional Lakeland sporting estate Shuteham Hall he soon ruffles the feathers of not only elderly Lord Edward Bullingdon and his younger model wife Miranda, but also their adult offspring and fellow estate workers.
Meanwhile local conservationists perceive an existential threat to rare hen harriers nesting on nearby Over Moor. And when Miranda’s jewellery worth a six-figure sum goes missing, and a trusted employee inexplicably disappears, DI Skelgill and his team lift the lid on a plot that simmers with envy, greed, lust and revenge.
Just as a simple solution beckons, in a further diabolical twist it seems the prey turn the tables on the predator. But is it an audacious murder or an innocent accident? Is this the work of a lone actor or a conspiracy? To fathom the mystery Skelgill finds himself in the firing line, whichever way he turns.
BRUCE BECKHAM is an award-winning author and copywriter. A resident of Great Britain, he has travelled and worked in over 60 countries. He is published in both fiction and non-fiction, and is a member of the UK Society of Authors.
His series ‘Inspector Skelgill Investigates’ features the recalcitrant Cumbrian detective Daniel Skelgill, and his loyal lieutenants, long-suffering Londoner DS Leyton and local high-flyer DS Emma Jones.
Set amidst the ancient landscapes of England’s Lake District, this expanding series of standalone murder mysteries has won acclaim across five continents, with over 1 million copies downloaded, from Australia to Japan and India, and from Brazil to Canada and the United States of America.
“Great characters. Great atmospheric locale. Great plots. What’s not to like?”
Amazon Reviewer, 5 Stars
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by admin | Oct 31, 2025 | Mystery |
Madame Ruby, gypsy fortune teller in the city of Chicago, makes headlines in the Chicago Tribune when she predicts a Halloween murder in the old haunted house in Lincoln Park. She also lays down a challenge for Madeline Donovan to attend a séance on that night and thwart the murderer.
Madeline dismisses the challenge until she receives a note from the sisters who live there asking for her help to rid the house of a troublesome ghost who recently inhabited their home and is causing them much consternation.
The scene is then set for her and her friends to attend an elaborate Halloween gala that is nothing as she imagined and begins her journey to catch a ghost.
by admin | Oct 31, 2025 | Cozy Mystery |
Budding gifts. A lens full of trouble. Can she decipher ghostly messages caught on film to filter out the truth?
Liv Grantham’s life is way out of focus. After her husband’s devastating betrayal, the defeated single mother moves her two struggling daughters from the U.S. to the charming English village she left as a young child. Barely adjusting to an inherited cottage, a mysterious camera, and a marmalade cat, she feels off-centered when she accidentally captures ghoulish pictures of her dead neighbor.
Accused of breaking into the woman’s house and then her murder, Liv decides to investigate while rediscovering paranormal abilities the forty-two-old has suppressed for years. But with cryptic clues from phantom photos and help from estranged psychic relatives, she fights to create a clear picture of a town festering with jealousy, secrets, and suspicions.
Can she find the killer before she’s framed for the crime?
Snap, Spirit, Murder! is the light-hearted first book in the Ghost Photographer Cozy Mysteries series. If you like eclectic casts, relatable journeys, and tongue-in-cheek humor, then you’ll love Felicity Green’s zany whodunit.
Buy Snap, Spirit, Murder to expose the evidence today!
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