Cozy Mystery · Amateur Sleuth · Laugh-Out-Loud Suspense
Fool's Gold
The desert keeps its secrets. Sadie Lockwood digs them up.
Sadie Lockwood has heard every Lost Dutchman legend, met every delusional prospector, and watched the Arizona desert humble bigger egos than hers. Five years running treasure tours through the Superstition Mountains taught her one thing for certain: the gold is a myth. So when celebrity treasure hunter Preston Danforth rolls into Prospector's Bluff with TV cameras and swears he's found the legendary mine, Sadie settles in to enjoy the show. Then she sees his map. It's hers. The one she stumbled across five years ago, the one that made her stay in this sunbaked speck of a town. Before she can corner him about it, Preston turns up dead at the bottom of a canyon, the map is gone, and Sadie is the only person in town with a reason to want both. Now half of Prospector's Bluff has something to hide: a bitter ex-wife, an ambitious cameraman, a grizzled rival, a smooth-talking investor. The sheriff would love her to quit finding bodies. A charming helicopter pilot keeps landing at the worst possible moment. And a killer is betting she knows more than she's saying. The gold was always a legend. The body in the canyon is not, and the next one might have her name on it.
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Siggy Kent crafts witty, sassy cozy mysteries that have readers simultaneously clutching their sides with laughter and the edge of their seats in suspense. When she's not plotting the perfect crime (on paper, of course), Siggy can be found globetrotting with her husband, embarking on cruise adventures, or at home surrounded by her beloved cats and dogs who serve as both furry companions and unwitting muse material.
Her unique blend of humor and mystery reflects her philosophy that even the darkest puzzles can be brightened with a good laugh and perhaps a purring cat on your lap.
Fortune Hunter Mysteries
Fool's Gold
The desert keeps its secrets. Sadie Lockwood digs them up.
Cozy MysterySadie Lockwood has heard every Lost Dutchman legend, met every delusional prospector, and watched the Arizona desert humble bigger egos than hers. Five years running treasure tours through the Superstition Mountains taught her one thing for certain: the gold is a myth. So when celebrity treasure hunter Preston Danforth rolls into Prospector's Bluff with TV cameras and swears he's found the legendary mine, Sadie settles in to enjoy the show. Then she sees his map. It's hers. The one she stumbled across five years ago, the one that made her stay in this sunbaked speck of a town. Before she can corner him about it, Preston turns up dead at the bottom of a canyon, the map is gone, and Sadie is the only person in town with a reason to want both. Now half of Prospector's Bluff has something to hide: a bitter ex-wife, an ambitious cameraman, a grizzled rival, a smooth-talking investor. The sheriff would love her to quit finding bodies. A charming helicopter pilot keeps landing at the worst possible moment. And a killer is betting she knows more than she's saying. The gold was always a legend. The body in the canyon is not, and the next one might have her name on it.
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Gold Digger
Everyone wanted her money. Someone wanted her dead.
Cozy MysteryThree months after she caught a killer in the canyon, business at Lockwood Expeditions is booming, and Sadie's reputation is the only thing in Prospector's Bluff bigger than the heat. So when Marlene Goodwin, a Scottsdale developer worth more than the whole town put together, hires Sadie to consult on a luxury treasure-hunting resort, it looks like the desert is finally paying out. Then Marlene turns up dead in her own infinity pool, and Sadie is the last local on her payroll. Everyone around the rich widow wanted a piece of her: a boyfriend half her age, a business partner of twenty years, an estranged daughter with a grudge, and an assistant who asks a few too many careful questions. The sheriff has a county to run. Pilot Boone Kerrigan keeps finding reasons to land nearby. And the deeper Sadie digs, the more that fortune looks like fool's gold with a body count. She solved one murder by accident. Solving this one is the only way to keep the name that's keeping her in business.
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The Golden Parachute
Team building has never been this deadly.
Cozy MysterySadie Lockwood has led hundreds of tours through Arizona's deadliest terrain. She's survived the desert's dangers. What she's never survived? A corporate team-building exercise. When a CEO winds up dead and a flash flood traps everyone at the retreat, Sadie finds herself playing a different kind of game—one where the stakes are life and death. Four suspects. One night. And secrets ugly enough to kill for. The VP who sacrificed everything for a company that gave her nothing. The engineer who threatened to "burn it all down." The assistant with a file full of leverage. And the man Derek blackballed out of the industry two years ago. The road won't clear until dawn. The killer isn't talking. And out here, the desert doesn't care about your exit strategy.
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The Fatal Hand
Never underestimate a grandmother with a classified past.
Cozy MysteryEllie Queen spent thirty-five years as a covert operative for an agency that doesn't officially exist. She's toppled governments, extracted defectors, and once talked her way out of a Siberian gulag. Now she's seventy-two, officially retired, and running the most effective neighborhood watch in Coral Winds—from her front porch, with a pitcher of sweet tea and binoculars she claims are for birdwatching. When the bridge club's wealthiest member collapses face-first into the cards, Ellie recognizes a professional hit. Someone murdered Cynthia Wright during Ellie's bridge game, and Ellie takes that personally. Now she's using her old tradecraft—surveillance, interrogation, strategic misdirection—to unmask the killer among her wealthy suspects. All while maintaining her cover as a harmless grandmother and managing her best friend Dotty, who has appointed herself "assistant detective" despite having all the subtlety of a brass band. The Fatal Hand is the first book in the Queen's Gambit Mysteries—a cozy mystery series for readers who like their grandmothers dangerous, their card games deadly, and their sweet tea served with a side of espionage.
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The Deadly Deal
She traded spy craft for golf carts. Murder had other plans.
Cozy MysteryEleanor Queen has been playing the harmless librarian for years. It's the perfect cover for a retired intelligence operative trying to disappear into a Georgia retirement community. But when the country club's golden-boy golf pro dies under suspicious circumstances, Eleanor's instincts kick in—and her cover starts to crack. The police call it heat stroke. Eleanor calls it murder. And she's not the only one asking questions. Someone sent her a newspaper clipping. Someone wants her involved. And when Eleanor and her unlikely team of septuagenarian sidekicks break into the Pro Shop to steal evidence, they discover that the real danger isn't the man with the crowbar—it's the one everyone underestimated. A midnight heist. A hollow trophy. A black ledger full of deadly secrets. And a climactic showdown in a garden full of gnomes that will redefine the phrase "turf war." The second installment in the Queen's Gambit Mysteries—where espionage meets early-bird specials.
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The Blind Bid
The murder is solvable. What comes after may not be.
Cozy Mystery NovellaAt seventy-two, Eleanor Queen has the corner lot, the good sightlines, and a reputation as the most organized woman on Magnolia Drive. What Coral Winds, Georgia doesn't know—can't know—is that before the library cardigan and the bridge club, Eleanor spent thirty-five years as a CIA operative. She's been retired for fifteen years. She intends to stay that way. Then a cardiologist in a pearl-grey mask collapses at the Library Gala, and Eleanor recognizes the signs of digitalis toxicity before the EMTs arrive. She also recognizes the name on the dead drop note left in the coat closet: a name from her past she has not heard in twenty years. With her bridge club—meticulous Dotty, precise Rita, and socially astute Margot—Eleanor must trace the foxglove from a community garden to a champagne flute while a silver-haired woman in ivory leaves notes in places no one should be able to reach. The murder is solvable. What comes after may not be.
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Three Snoops and the Dry Loafers
The case is about to close as an accident. Gwen's about to make sure it doesn't.
Cozy MysteryGwen Faber's first clue: Colston Craine's shoes were dry. Everyone else in her Florida retirement complex is ready to call his death a tragic accident—a wet deck, one bad step, a sad way for a charming man to go. Gwen isn't buying it, and neither are the two women who've walked this complex with her every morning for eleven years. Dry loafers on a drowned man mean somebody staged the scene, and thirty-two years in courtrooms taught Gwen exactly what staged looks like. What the three of them uncover is worse than murder. Craine spent eight months quietly emptying their neighbors' retirement accounts: nineteen investors, two million dollars, one friendly smile at a time. Now half the building has a motive, the police have already closed the file, and somebody who got away with fraud once is watching to see if murder will be just as easy. The case is about to close as an accident. Gwen's about to make sure it doesn't.
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