Coming February 2027
A Murder Most Un-Canadian
Book 1 of the Murder Most Un-Canadian series from Severn River Publishing
Maris MacWhorter hates chocolate, hates small towns, and is not particularly fond of Canada. So when her ex-mother-in-law's will leaves her a chocolate shop in Campbell Creek, Nova Scotia, along with a crumbling Victorian mansion and an asthmatic dog named Angus MacBagpipe, her only plan is to survive until spring, sell the whole lot, and get back to California before the first frost kills her. Her nine-year-old daughter Bea, on the other hand, has already declared the place home, befriended half the town, and developed a rather inconvenient theory that Grandma Eileen's fatal "accident" was nothing of the sort.
Bea, as it turns out, may not be wrong. Eileen's chocolate shop comes with more than just award-winning truffles and a kitchen that smells like citrus and dark roast: it also comes with the Chocolate Shop Murder Club, a group of fiercely opinionated locals who read cozy mysteries and occasionally solve real ones. When the Club decides that Eileen's death deserves a closer look, Maris finds herself dragged into an investigation she never asked for, in a community where everyone is unfailingly polite, suspiciously well-read, and possibly hiding a killer.
Funeral Games
A work in progress, shortlisted for the 2025 Emerging Dagger Award.
Helen Cantor, who can’t remember a time before she became a Classics professor at her small liberal arts college, is easing herself into retirement with an administrative post in admissions—until her former student Julia Nowak shows up, with a baby and a request for a job. Julia, when she was young and plucky, solved a murder on campus. And now, it looks like history is repeating itself.