A Valentine’s wedding. A poisoned toast. A dead groom who planned to be the killer.
When Rodger Holloway dies during his rehearsal dinner at the Bradford Inn, Emma Bradford is pulled into another dangerous mystery. What she discovers is shocking. Rodger was a con artist who planned to murder his bride after the wedding and frame the Inn for another tragic death.
But someone beat him to it.
As Emma follows the trail of secrets, she realizes the real target was never the groom. It was the bride. And the killer is still dangerously close.
With greed disguised as romance and manipulation hiding behind wedding vows, Emma must expose the truth before another celebration becomes a funeral. With Jax at her side and the Inn’s future on the line, she faces her most twisted case yet.
Because sometimes, the deadliest love stories are the ones that look perfect.
Under the spotlight, secrets unravel, and a killer takes center stage.
Bristol Heights’ beloved annual play promises high drama, but no one expects it to turn deadly. Moments before opening night begins, the lead actor dies during rehearsal, his final performance brutally cut short.
As the theater scrambles in shock, Emma Bradford is pulled into a web of rivalries, grudges, and backstage secrets. Every cast member and crew hand seems to be hiding something, from a jealous understudy to a director with a secret obsession.
When her friend and business partner, Tom, becomes a suspect, Emma must untangle lies, motives, and theatrical deceptions before the killer strikes again.
With help from her BFF, Tom, and trusty Basset, Jax, Emma navigates hidden tensions, backstage sabotage, and the local police Chief.
Can she stop the killer before her own curtain call?
A festive inn, a snow-covered town, and a holiday party that turns deadly
Emma Bradford to host the coziest winter weekend in Bristol Heights. She’s filling her restored inn with candlelight, laughter, and the town’s much-loved murder mystery party.
When Liza’s troubled ex is found dead behind the inn, the murder mystery becomes real. Emma pulled from cookie trays and garlands to solve a mystery to save her BFF.
With her loyal basset hound, Jax, sniffing out clues and trouble and with Liza battling fear and guilt, Emma’s small team becomes a mix of heart, humor, and stubborn courage.
Suspects abound from old gang members, fraud victims, and questionable businessmen. But is someone else pulling the strings? Threats, hidden grudges and long-buried secrets unravel through the town like loose holiday ribbon,
Emma must solve the case and save Liza before the killer uses the joyful chaos of the holidays to strike again.
A crumbling inn. A buried family secret. A murder that refuses to stay hidden.
After twelve years away, chef Emma Bradford returns to the charming bayside town of Bristol Heights with nothing but her basset hound Jax and a cryptic note from her estranged Uncle Harold. But when she arrives at the once-glorious Bradford Inn, she finds her uncle crushed beneath a toppled wine rack in the dark, musty basement.
The police call it a tragic accident. Emma calls it murder.
With the help of her BFF, Liza, the Inns handyman, and the ever-sniffing Jax, Emma sets out to uncover the truth behind her uncle’s suspicious death. But danger lurks behind every vintage door: shady business deals, threatening loan sharks, a pompous developer with a shadowy driver, and a housekeeper who knows more than she lets on.
When brake lines are cut, fires spark, and bricks fly through windows, it’s clear someone wants Emma out of the picture, permanently. As she digs deeper, the more she unearths: hidden passageways, long-forgotten secrets, and a plot that could destroy her family’s legacy forever.
Can Emma solve the mystery before the killer silences her for good? Or will the Bradford Inn become her final resting place?
Murder on Ice
A totally gripping cozy murder mystery
(A Bristol Heights Cozy Mystery)
Sometimes, chefs’ knives turn deadly instead of creating a dish to die for.
Emma and Jax, her droopy-eared basset, expected a typical day at Caprice Bistro.
Until she discovers the hotheaded chef in the freezer—her butcher knife nearby, blood-covered!
Everyone is a suspect, even Emma, along with the angry delivery man, the dishwasher or someone else.
Clues surround them, Jax unwittingly creating some of his own.
The dismissive detective is skeptical and stubborn. She must gain his trust to prove whether it was one of her co-workers or an intruder.
Emma must unravel the clues before the killer gets off or she becomes the next victim …
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