Kim Griswell’s debut cozy mystery series from Storm Publishing features a best-selling author who lives and writes in an RV and travels the highways and byways of the Pacific Northwest. If you love small town coastal charm, clever women of a certain age, quirky characters, and a dose of murder, this one’s for you!
Murder at Last Chance Cove
Murder at Last Chance Cove is the first book in a new series packed with small-town coastal charm and a dose of murder. For traveling writer Saffi Graywood, Last Chance Cove, a stunning slice of the Oregon coast, seems the perfect place to write her next bestseller—until the RV park manager’s body appears on the beach beneath the lighthouse. In this close-knit coast community where fog rolls in without warning and ravens watch from windswept trees, everyone has something to hide.
I don’t know if I loved this book because of quirky Saffi or the Ravens (after all, my name is Raven), but I truly devoured this mystery. I really enjoyed the characters and the mystery. The red herrings throughout were also an added plus. I love that Saffi travels in her RV. The descriptions throughout this book were fantastic, making it easy to paint the scenes in your mind while you read. I need more mysteries in Last Chance Cove or at the very least, to have Aunt Saffi take me with her on her next adventure!—Raven L, Reviewer
I loved this debut cozy from this author. Not your typical setting and not your typical genre author in a cozy!—Kori A., Reviewer
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Death in the Haunted Wood
Writer Saffi Graywood thinks a quick road trip to help a friend will be the perfect break from her looming manuscript deadline. But her autumn getaway takes a chilling turn when aging horror star Malcolm Morton reveals he’s been receiving threatening vintage postcards – and his groundskeeper has just turned up dead beneath the dock.
Malcolm’s grand transformation of a forgotten theme park into “The Haunted Wood” should be his triumphant comeback. Instead, Saffi finds herself surrounded by towering evergreens, eerie movie props and a colorful cast of suspects that includes a local sheriff with his own agenda.
As jack-o’-lanterns grin from every corner and costumed guests arrive for the Halloween Spooktacular, Saffi must piece together clues over steaming cups of spiced chai. With each vintage postcard’s threat growing more sinister and the October mist concealing deadly secrets, she races to unmask the truth before the killer’s final trick claims another victim. Can Saffi solve the mystery lurking behind small-town friendly faces? Or will her sleuthing turn this fall season into her last?
I was not prepared for how badly I needed a Halloween-themed mystery involving an aging horror star, a spooky campground, and a sarcastic author turned reluctant sleuth… Also, can we talk about the Halloween Spooktacular? It’s everything: costumed chaos, themed drinks, suspicious party guests, a performance from a man who peaked in 1973, and a killer lurking just out of frame. It’s like Knives Out met Hocus Pocus at a campground and brought murder as a plus-one… Five stars. No notes. Except maybe “bring a flashlight” if you’re reading at night.—Toni R., Reviewer
I absolutely loved this book and immediately went and got the first one! The characters are wonderfully quirky, the mystery keeps you guessing, and the setting is pure cozy perfection. Kim Griswell has crafted a mystery that’s equal parts charming, eerie, and fun—exactly what you want for an autumn read.—Meg P., Reviewer
Silenced at the Book Show
A booksellers conference in the charming town of Seaside promises the perfect mix of business and pleasure for Saffi Graywood. She’ll deliver a keynote speech, sign copies of her latest Bedside Reader and enjoy a romantic getaway on the windswept Oregon coast with her favorite fisherman from Last Chance Cove.
But Saffi’s bookish weekend gets an unwanted plot twist when her obsessive online stalker shows up at the convention threatening to destroy her career. By morning, a body is discovered strangled with fairy lights—and Saffi’s editor is arrested for murder. Poppy Morales has always been a killer when it comes to perfecting prose, but is she capable of actual murder?
Determined to clear her editor’s name, Saffi uncovers connections between the killing and a decades-old disappearance that powerful locals have buried deep. Between sipping Mexi-mochas at quirky coffeehouses and decoding clues hidden in a self-published memoir, Saffi races against time as a bomb cyclone barrels toward shore. Trapped in a town where carousels spin, painted beach stones hold secrets and friendly faces conceal deadly intentions, can Saffi unmask the killer before she becomes the next victim silenced in Seaside?
Silenced at the Book Show is the third book in the atmospheric Pacific Northwest Cozy Mystery series. Perfect for fans of Lauren Elliott, Merryn Allingham and readers who crave their mysteries with crashing waves, vintage RV charm and enough dark chocolate truffles to fuel a dangerous investigation.
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