She’s looking forward to tea and scones. Hunting down murderers? Not so much…

Box set: Enjoy over 720 pages of proper English sleuthing fun in the splendid green hills of the Cotswolds.

Leta Parker moved across the pond to get over her grief. And so far, the serene pastoral countryside seems just the place to make a fresh start. But her visions of quaint villages and posh accents are shockingly disturbed when her tranquility is shattered by a rather dead body…

With her newfound book-loving friends and her charming talking dog and cat, Dickens and Christie, Leta rolls up her sleeves to uncover the culprit. But as the town suffers more mysterious demises, these literary ladies soon have their hands full serving up justice.

Will Leta’s reinvented life turn her quiet hamlet into an amateur detective’s dream escape?

A Dickens & Christie Mystery Box Set contains the first three books in the delightful Dickens & Christie cozy mystery series. If you like smart heroines, unconventional friendships, and clever whodunits, then you’ll love Kathy Manos Penn’s perfectly woven tales.

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It’s Valentine’s Day in Christmas River, but the holiday promises to be anything but sweet for Cinnamon Peters.
When asked to help judge the prestigious Chocolate Championship Showdown Competition at the last minute, the pie baker extraordinaire is hesitant about putting down her rolling pin in place of a clipboard. But when she discovers that one of her co-judges will be famous celebrity chef Cliff Copperstone, Cinnamon agrees to help.
It’s a decision she’ll live to regret.
When a freak blizzard hits Christmas River on the day of the competition, Cinnamon finds herself not only in the middle of a crisis, but also in a mystery as sinister and dark as a bar of bittersweet chocolate.
Because somebody at the competition has murder in their heart this Valentine’s Day.
And things are about to take a very menacing turn.
The chocolate really hits the fan in the eighth installment of the Christmas River Cozy Mystery series.

Tick Tock. Time is running out.

My parents are missing in outback Australia. Only they’ve left me clues. Clues that tell me they were close to a significant discovery – the location of a copper scroll that leads to untold treasures. A scroll that treasure hunters would kill for.Now I’m in a race against time. Together with my Gran, best friend Jenna, my familiar Archie, and bad boy lawyer Blake Tennant, we head to an outback town called Arrowstrand, where the locals are hiding their own secrets, and I must rely on my magic and blind faith to venture into the unknown.The stakes have never been higher; can I reach my parents before it’s too late or will they be lost forever?

This paranormal murder mystery will have you completely spellbound and laughing out loud!

Josephine Bartlett is back, joined by a colorful cast of friends: her partner in mystery-solving, Lill Fitzel, flamboyant ex-beauty queen, Myrtle Grabinowitz, former attorney/current novelist, Philippa Scott Williamson, Brookside’s thief, Edna Prisant, good friends Devi and Mac McElroy, and last, but not least, love-interest Norman Neumann. When new resident, Lottie Watson, loses at Naked Poker, she tells a bizarre story about her husband disappearing in the LA airport. Josephine and Lill, intrigued enough to investigate, discover there are more ominous goings-on than a simple disappearance. Meanwhile, Josephine ignores the mysteries of her own heart.