A six-book collection of cozy mystery stories:
A Secret Killer - A Julia Blake Cozy Mystery
A Lesson In Deceit - A Julia Blake Short Cozy Mystery
The Death Planner - A Storage Ghost Murder
A Lonely Death - A Pearl and Derek Mystery
Playing At Murder - A Butterworth Mystery
A Ghost In The Store - A Ruby and Nessa Mystery
A Secret Killer - A Julia Blake Cozy Mystery
Julia Blake runs a cleaning business. She also has the uncanny knack of discovering murdered people.
In this story Julia visits one of her clients, a genealogist called Hugo Barnes. Hugo has uncovered a family secret during the course of his work. He tells Julia that the client wonโt be happy about the secret heโs discovered.
Julia finds Hugoโs dead body the next day. She makes her own investigations into Hugoโs death and soon discovers that his assistant, Dinah, and his brother, Gilbert, have strong motives for killing him.
Julia also finds out who the last client of Hugoโs was. Did they have a motive to kill Hugo too?
And who is the man whoโs been watching Juliaโs house?
A Lesson In Deceit - A Julia Blake Short Cozy Mystery
In this story, Julia travels to Edinburgh University to visit her son, Sam. Itโs not long before she stumbles upon a dead body. Julia is happy to leave the murder investigation to the police โ until her son becomes one of their suspects. Julia has no option but to get herself involved, despite the danger she puts herself in.
The Death Planner - A Storage Ghost Murder
Grace Abrahams helps ghosts โ particularly those who were murdered. She meets the ghosts at storage locker auctions.
Grace meets Jenny Lorrimer. Jenny was strangled by the lead of her headset. Grace finds out that Jenny was an events planner and she was murdered at a wedding that sheโd organised. Grace delves further and discovers two suspects โ Jennyโs sister and Jennyโs best friend. A shock discovery leads her down a different route.
A Lonely Death - A Pearl And Derek Mystery
Derek Quill is an elderly gent who can see the ghosts of murdered people. With the help of his ghostly friend, Pearl, he finds out who killed them.
In his first investigation, Derek meets the ghost of Eric Malone. Derek knows Eric from his schooldays. Eric bullied Derek mercilessly back then and now heโs asking for Derekโs help. Derek soon discovers that Eric never changed his bullying ways and there is more than one person who could be a suspect.
Playing At Murder - A Butterworth Mystery
A short murder mystery story
Itโs always been a dream of Connie Butterworthโs to be a private investigator. Now that sheโs retired, she makes that dream a reality and sets herself up as an investigator.
With reluctant help from her sister-in-law, Sable, Connie takes on her first client.
What starts out as a simple case of tracking down a missing person soon turns into an intriguing case of deception, phone hacking and murder.
A Ghost In The Store - A Ruby And Nessa Mystery
A short ghost story.
Ruby Laurel is a ghost hunter. She locates ghosts who are haunting places โ or people.
In this first story, Ruby is called upon to investigate a haunting in a supermarket. She soon discovers the ghost of a young woman called Mary Jackson. How is Mary connected to the supermarket? And why is she haunting it?
Rubyโs investigation is made more difficult by the arrival of her troublesome younger sister, Nessa. Will Nessa help, or hinder, the investigation?
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