The second installment in the award-winning Sashé Boudreaux Mysteries series is here—and Sashé is up to her crawdad hair clip in serious trouble…Sashé Boudreaux knows everybody in Cypress Grove and just about everything worth knowing. Or at least she thought she did… until the annual chainsaw carving competition.The most dangerous thing about that hot Louisiana day should have been splinters, sawdust, and maybe one too many deep-fried elephant ears. But when she falls head ...

A neighbor vanishes. A human bone turns up at the recycling drop-off. Something is wrong in Cypress Grove.Former Miss Crawdad Queen of Houma Parish, Louisiana, Sashé Boudreaux has an eye for fashion, a heart for her community, and some of the best cooking skills in the state.Monday through Friday, she's delivering home cooked meals to the shut-ins and color-coordinating the ladies of Cypress Grove—a charming little bayou town of moss-draped oaks, porch swings, and gossip ov...

A Nighttime Adventure + Wildlife Field Guide in One Beautifully Illustrated Book!Grab your flashlight and venture into the shadow-filled jungles of Japan's Ryukyu Islands! Night Hunt! Ryukyu is a gorgeously illustrated watercolor adventure that combines interactive storytelling with real science education.HOW IT WORKS:Rhyming riddles on each page describe mysterious jungle creatures. Kids guess the animal before the page turn reveals it. Watercolor illustrations bri...

In Pine Hills, Ohio, the bars are hopping—and bodies are dropping—as bookstore-café owner Krissy Hancock gets drawn into a deadly St. Patrick’s Day mystery . . .Krissy is ready to provide one of the essential ingredients for Irish coffee this St. Patrick’s Day—though without a liquor license, she’ll have to team up with a local bar owner to complete the recipe. It’s a perfect chance to distract herself from her upcoming wedding . . . and her worries about how her b...

Murder. Theatre. Community secrets.Journalist Jade Riley hosts a dinner at her parents’ idyllic country property with members of the local amateur theatre society. The next morning, she finds one of her guests dead in a dam.As Jade investigates, the players tighten their grip on long-held secrets. Grudges and tangled motives emerge, and the past refuses to stay buried.At the same time, a proposal from her boyfriend forces Jade to consider how much s...

Garnet Stone needs a breather. Between working at the bookstore and her secret quest to uncover the truth about her birth mom, she welcomes a break.The solution? Dryden Mansion’s annual murder mystery party. The evening promises to be a blast with her boyfriend, friends, and Grandpa Stone as one of the actors.The party takes a dark turn from Mardi Gras to Mardi Murder when a woman is found dead, and Stone becomes the prime suspect. To complicate things further, Aoife, the w...

Together with her sister-in-law Kara and ex-coworker Tea, Miranda Marquette has finally stepped with both feet into the food truck business. But just as the burners start heating up, her personal life begins to crumble.Three employees at the local motorcycle dealership turn up dead and Miranda's husband, Steve, is arrested for the murders. But why were the victims carrying cryptic notes addressed to Miranda, and could her long-standing friendship with the dealership’s manager be mo...

Miranda finds adjusting to a new life challenging, when the upstairs neighbor in the apartment building is found dead.Her past comes rushing back to haunt her, with the internet and the press declaring her the “Princess of Death". Murder seems to follow her wherever she goes.An ex-cop working on building a new life in Northern California, Miranda will need all her wit and resolve to find the murderer and clear her own name. But can she find the peace in Santa Clara that she...

Once upon a time in La-La-Land: When theme park princesses start vanishing, a free-spirited P.I. goes undercover and finds her prince: a cautious ex-military spy who'd rather be left alone.Fired from her job, Allie Kincade has a house in escrow, an eviction notice from her landlord, and nothing in the bank. So when she's offered an insanely large paycheck to dress up as a princess and find three women who've gone missing from their jobs as costume characters at GrimmLand, ...

Light pink, robin’s egg blue, daffodil yellow, mint green—Easter eggs hiding sweet treats come in every pastel color. But in a few small towns this year, cracking them could be more fatal than fun…EASTER EGG MURDER by LESLIE MEIERIn Provence to visit her daughter, part-time reporter Lucy Stone is soaking up the atmosphere, even if it includes one Carole Capobianco, the empty-nester she encountered on the flight over. Not exactly tw...

The bodies keep piling up along Chestnut Street…When Sister Bernadette hears from the local pharmacist about plans to redevelop and gentrify their small community on Chestnut Street, she rallies her neighbors at The Abbey: Senior Living to help stop it. Chestnut Street is home to local mom-and-pop businesses that The Abbey’s residents frequently access. But when the healthy pharmacist mysteriously drops dead with no discernable reason, Detective AJ Lewis is stumped. Then another, y...

Welcome to Westhaven - or welcome back, in my case. Hurrying home to be at my dad's bedside wasn't exactly how I planned my small-town homecoming, especially when my shoot-for-the-stars successful life is hanging by a thread. But there's something comforting about being back in my hometown, even if it does mean crossing paths with my high school frenemies more than I'd like.Love, Lies and Pumpkin SpiceBack in town to care for her father, Veronica Swan is lo...